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[quote=Anonymous]I think this is a great idea.  We tried all of us sleeping in the same room with bassinets, and it was a total fail because no one slept.  Then we put the babies back in their cribs and one of us slept in the recliner in their room in shifts.  It worked much better and allowed for at least one parent at a time to get well rested.  (We had twins, so a few more variables, but same general idea.)

I don't know how long we did this, but it definitely wasn't 6 months.  Probably until the babies started sleeping longer stretches and/or we didn't need to wake them up to feed.

I appreciate the SIDS guidelines and was really diligent about them in the beginning, but also came to the realization that the goal of each of those directives is to preserve a state of not-deep or long-lasting sleep for everyone involved.  At a point we needed to balance those rules with the reality that quality sleep was really important for daily life.  We started to do that at a point where we were comfortable, which I'd expect will be different for everyone.  [/quote]

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