Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2017 1:10 pm Re: Is it okay to let my baby RES sleep next to me all night
I see there are people for and against.
My story I reached a milestone a while back, I have over 10,000 hrs of sleeping with turtles !!
Yes Fred has been with us 29 years. I have slept with 2 children per night ( all 4 when wife is away) Lumpy gets 1/2 hour or longer depends on how content he is. Poke has slept on me many times from 11 pm to 3 am. ( usually try for 1 hour ).
When you cuddle these little people after you warm them to our body temp within an hour (or sooner) the pee, so everyone is held on a towel ("snuggle towel").
When i first started sleeping with Poke (1993) he would lay on my chest, sneak up and put his chin on my chin and fall asleep. Now i don't know how many of you know how powerful their instincts are..... but when in the wild when they sleep they jamb themselves into a crack between rocks, tangle in weeds or stick in themselves in mud and if they feel they are floating away they instinctively jamb back in harder while staying 100% asleep. One night as poke was sleep crawling he touched his nose against my neck whiskers and bit me ( a good mouthful) I woke my wife, she went and got a wooden stir stick and pried his "lips" open and pulled him away, we turn on the light and he was sound asleep.
Poke now sleeps on my stomach and I fold the towel in half and put his nose in the crease to stop his sleep walk.
He no longer pees on me, I put him in his bed and continues to sleep til morning.(sleep buddy since 1993)
So moral of the story is they pee, poop and bite not to mention you don't want to squish them.
If I go to bed now without holding him i can't sleep,
I hold him and lie on my back with my hand on his back/butt and don't move an inch. Once I put him in bed I flip and flap like a fish out of water. (parental instinct)
You could try a tiny sleeping bag of non lint material (choking hazzard??) and put the little one on you (if you don't roll)
They become accustom to your smell and relate comfort with you.
Children that fit in the palm of your hand.