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Yet another media strike against AP!
"Clisby Williams" wrote in message ... Stephanie and Tim wrote: snip Well, I have no problem with other people who want to cosleep safely. But this newsgroup gets to be a pretty unfriendly place regarding the issue of cosleeping sometimes. *I* like having no children in our bed. Like the Ted Bundy (or someone) comment above. Should this group be renamed radical AP instead? If so, I will take my bf issues elsewhere when my baby is born. S I think there are plenty of people on this newsgroup who weren't too fond of co-sleeping. I'm one of them. We did it for awhile with my first child because it was the best way to get her to sleep, but it was terrible for *our* sleep. The heck with the marriage bed; I wanted the sleeping bed. I lucked out with the 2nd, who never minded a crib. Clisby My thing is that a) I can't sleep when the baby *isn't* in the bed b) I figure families need to do what works best for them, as a family c) I don't want to teach a kid to hate going to sleep--my daughter doesn't d) We tend to use our bed for sleeping at night. Other stuff happens OTHER times, but rarely "bedtime" I don't care what other families do as long as it works for them. If they complain about how hard it is to get enough sleep when baby is sleeping somewhere else, or how they're struggling to "get" baby to sleep through the night so they don't have to get up, I'm not all that sympathetic. But if it works, hey! If it doesn't, and they're unwilling to co-sleeping, then I just don't have a whole lot of advice on the subject. I *do* have ways of making co-sleeping easier/more managable, so that's where I focus my own advice. Jenrose |
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Yet another media strike against AP!
Karen Askey wrote:
Rarely do I meet a father who has chosen to initiate this unnecessary practice. It's nearly always the mother's call, Heh, well, the mother's the one who's got to feed the child, so I do think she's got a little more say in the matter! If a husband is really firmly against cosleeping, I think he should be the one to have to wait for the baby to nurse then get baby settled back into the crib. Actually, my DH was at first a little unsure about the cosleeping, but after a week or two he told me he loved the closeness and security of it. And he loved having a wife who wasn't a totally sleep-deprived bitch. -- iphigenia www.tristyn.net |
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Yet another media strike against AP!
Yeah, its like no one whose kid sleeps in a crib EVER has this
problem. Bwa, ha,ha, hee, ha, snort. Clunk. Mary falls on the floor laughing. Parents have a second baby. Oldest at age 2 goes into a regular bed from the crib and discovers he can escape, wakes up at 3 am, runs all over the house and wakes everyone up. Family bed or no family bed. Obviously Mr. Redmond never read any sleep training books, since they seem to be universally aimed at the parents of toddlers who almost all go through a phase of getting out of bed and generally driving everyone nuts at 2 am. Mary G. (mom of three, and yes, they all did it at some point no matter what the heck the sleep arrangements were) |
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Yet another media strike against AP!
"Stephanie S" wrote in message .. . snip d) We tend to use our bed for sleeping at night. Other stuff happens OTHER times, but rarely "bedtime" What do you mean other stuff? Sex? The whole santity of the marriage bed thing is horsepucky as far as I am concerned. Or at least needn't be considered seriously if other arrangements suit. BUT just to be an evil troublemaker, anyone see that article in Newsweek a couple weeks ago about the sexless marriage? There was a very subtle implication at one point that differing parenting styles were causing to decreased availabilty for sex as well as overall exhaustion. There was a letter from someone the next week about keeping the bedroom sacred. I kinda thought of you all and laughed about it. Heh. I'm a newlywed, so that whole article just isn't relevant at present...g But remembering back to when my daughter was tiny--cosleeping was never a barrier to sex if sex was on the agenda... Jenrose |
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Yet another media strike against AP!
"Jenrose" wrote in message ... "Stephanie S" wrote in message .. . snip d) We tend to use our bed for sleeping at night. Other stuff happens OTHER times, but rarely "bedtime" What do you mean other stuff? Sex? The whole santity WOOOPS. I meant SANCTITY! of the marriage bed thing is horsepucky as far as I am concerned. Or at least needn't be considered seriously if other arrangements suit. BUT just to be an evil troublemaker, anyone see that article in Newsweek a couple weeks ago about the sexless marriage? There was a very subtle implication at one point that differing parenting styles were causing to decreased availabilty for sex as well as overall exhaustion. There was a letter from someone the next week about keeping the bedroom sacred. I kinda thought of you all and laughed about it. Heh. I'm a newlywed, so that whole article just isn't relevant at present...g But remembering back to when my daughter was tiny--cosleeping was never a barrier to sex if sex was on the agenda... Jenrose I am an oldywed (tee hee). What's sex? S |
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