Any other doctors out there co-sleep with their babies? I’m still in residency so have very little time during the week with my LO and feel like being there for him at night helps make up for it.
I started cosleeping with him slowly bc of everything we learn against it - around 4 months when husband would get up for work (2:30-3am), I’d put him in bed with me- we were having trouble breast feeding and he would only drink laying next to me and it just made it easier for me to get some extra sleep. Shortly after that, he out grew his bassinet and we got a side car set up.. I said it was until he’s 1 year. Stopped BF completely around 7-8 months by his choice not mine.
Now he’s 15 months, has a side car but really sleeps up against me. I personally love it. He still wakes in the night and I love being able to be there for him/comfort him. I honestly am really struggling in residency bc I hate having to be away from him so much and come home and study in the evenings/weekends… if we had other options I sometimes think of quitting. Night time is the time that I feel like I’m really there for him bc I miss so much during the day. On the flip side of that I have a lot of external pressure that it’s “bad for him” “not teaching him independence” from family and a few coworkers- the ones I briefly mentioned it to were shocked. I haven’t told our pediatrician bc of the culture around it here in the USA. … which is just honestly silly.
Kinda just wanted to see if anyone could relate? What are your tthoughts on age of cosleeping vs independence? Should I be worried about not teaching him to sleep alone?
Sincerely,
A guilty feeling FTM