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I am a pretty new mother of twins. I co-slept with my twins at first. Then I saw how their 7 year old uncle still sleeps with their grandfather and grandmother! I couldn't have that happen. There's no room.
When the twins turned two months old, I began to put them in their cribs at about 8 o'clock every night. They fussed and woke up in the middle of the night. I went in and comforted, rocked, and sang. I only had to do that for the first month. The twins are on a schedule and sometimes go to bed as early as six in the evening. They sleep all night.

I am a mother who would not let her children put her on a schedule, instead, I put them on a schedule. I get a full night's sleep every night, except for the occasional "fussy teether" night.
I also will not have to worry about my children relying completely on sleeping in my bed to sleep. I must also admit that this was not my only reasoning in not co-sleeping with my children.
I am a smoker, even though I smoke outside and do not allow it around my children. I was warned, even before my twins were born, not to sleep with babies if I was a smoker.
Another good reason not to sleep with your baby in a bed with you is because, you or your partner can roll over in your sleep and smother the baby. I have also heard of mothers sleeping with their baby in arms and letting go when their muscles fully relax. If the baby is toward an outer edge of a bed, this can seriously harm, or even kill a baby. There have been reports of babies falling into waste baskets lined with plastic bags that were sitting next to beds. This resulted in the child suffocating and dying.
If not sleeping with my baby can improve their overall health and even save them from freak accidents, then I believe that a child should sleep in their own bed.
Let us not forget that you can also get more sleep for yourself and you will not have to worry about weening them from your bed. That is why I feel that you should not sleep with you baby.

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