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Re: Getting a 3-week old to bed: what can be expected?

Posted by Sally on February 11, 2002 at 09:42:32:

In Reply to: Getting a 3-week old to bed: what can be expected? posted by Julia's mom on February 08, 2002 at 16:46:29:

Hi,
I just wanted to say that if you want to sleep with your baby (from your post it sounds like you don't) but if you do, do not let the rolling over your baby scare stop you. Mothers do not roll over their babies. Unless you have been drinking or have some sort of sleep disorder or something, you are so in tune with your baby, that most likely, you will wake up (just barely) before your baby is even hungry. Besides, if you ever even started to roll onto the baby, she would cry and you'd wake up right away anyway. When the public health nurse came by after my baby was born, I told her our baby was sleeping in our bed with us. She said "good," and then told me not to worry about rolling over him (I wasn't anyway). She said that mothers DO NOT roll over their babies. Although it irritates some people when other people sleep with their babies, there is absolutely nothing wrong with sleeping with your baby if you want to. Some mothers don't like it, or their husbands don't like it, or their babies sleep just fine on their own anyway, but it works really, really well for lots of families.

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