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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Re: POLL for mommies: Where does your baby sleep?
- Where does your baby sleep?
She sleeps in her crib. We tried having her sleep in our room in her little sling chair thingy, but I would wake up to every little grunt and burp, so I wasn't sleeping at all. Moving her to her crib was more of a necessity. The rooms are close enough that I can hear her cry, but none of the other typical noises. We don't have a monitor either.
- Do you think it's better to train the baby to sleep in their own crib/room from the getgo? There wasn't much training involved. We would swaddle her, put her down, she'd fall asleep, the end. Up until a week before I went back to work, she would get up for a bottle once a night and go right back to bed. We'd put her in her crib even if she was still awake after taking her bottle, she'd just eventually fallasleep on her own.
- If the baby slept on a co-sleeper/beside you, did you have a hard time training the baby to sleep on their own bed/room later? No co sleeping, I'm too worried about squishing her.
If i breastfed, I probably would have had her in our room out of, like the pp said, exhaustion. She is a ridiculously easy baby, so I feel like we were let off the hook w/ the whole "training" part of sleep. Now we put her down at 9pm...and she doesn't wake up until 8 or 9 in the morning
I say that softly since I don't want any sharp objects thrown at me by most new parents 
As far as following particular "rules", for us, it was more about learning what she wanted, fed her when she was hungry, put her to sleep when she was tired, snuggle her when she was upset. I think you need to trust yourself and your baby first, follow your instincts over what anyone or anybook tells you to do.
Cerclage placed @ 21w6d due to CI (IC)
For us, it wasn't about "training" our baby - I'm not even sure how that's possible, a baby is going to do what a baby wants to do. We didn't read any sleep training books or follow anyone's advice. We just did what made sense to us...the sooner the kid was put in the crib, the sooner he would get used to it and spare him months (or sometimes years) of adjustment from our bed to his. DS got and still gets (I transitioned to working from home so I can be around at all times) plenty of cuddle time, it just isn't while we are sleeping.