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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP here. For those of you sleeping in separate room, aren’t you more sleep deprived because you have to walk to and from a different room to breastfeed your baby 3-4 times throughout the night?
Isn’t it easier and better for your sleep to pick your baby from a bassinet near your bed, nurse in bed, then put baby back right next to your bed?

I just don’t understand all of the posts that say the mother slept more, whereas I have to wake up to nurse during the night anyway. So it’s a matter of what sleep arrangement lets me stay drowsy while nursing and fall back asleep faster.

It depends how often you wake up to nurse. When I stopped sleeping in the nursery, baby was 4 months and often slept through from 9 to 6.

Wait. YOU slept in the nursery? I get that maybe you were the nursing parent, but that's not the only reason a baby wakes up. Did the other parent help at night?

Baby was sleepy and nursing took forever. I had to wake baby up to nurse on doc's orders - she did not wake up on her own at all. There was no point for me to be up for an hour nursing and for DH to wake up to change a diaper for 5 minutes. And we couldn't have comfortably fit a bassinet in the master bedroom. I do regret not letting DH (who was ready and willing) to give bottles overnight more often, but I drank the lactivist koolaid and felt obligated to either nurse or make it up by pumping. And honestly DH is such a terrible sleeper that it was probably for the best - I could at least go back to sleep after feedings. He would have literally been awake all night.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP here. For those of you sleeping in separate room, aren’t you more sleep deprived because you have to walk to and from a different room to breastfeed your baby 3-4 times throughout the night?
Isn’t it easier and better for your sleep to pick your baby from a bassinet near your bed, nurse in bed, then put baby back right next to your bed?

I just don’t understand all of the posts that say the mother slept more, whereas I have to wake up to nurse during the night anyway. So it’s a matter of what sleep arrangement lets me stay drowsy while nursing and fall back asleep faster.

It depends how often you wake up to nurse. When I stopped sleeping in the nursery, baby was 4 months and often slept through from 9 to 6.

Wait. YOU slept in the nursery? I get that maybe you were the nursing parent, but that's not the only reason a baby wakes up. Did the other parent help at night?

Anonymous wrote:NP here. For those of you sleeping in separate room, aren’t you more sleep deprived because you have to walk to and from a different room to breastfeed your baby 3-4 times throughout the night?
Isn’t it easier and better for your sleep to pick your baby from a bassinet near your bed, nurse in bed, then put baby back right next to your bed?

I just don’t understand all of the posts that say the mother slept more, whereas I have to wake up to nurse during the night anyway. So it’s a matter of what sleep arrangement lets me stay drowsy while nursing and fall back asleep faster.

It depends how often you wake up to nurse. When I stopped sleeping in the nursery, baby was 4 months and often slept through from 9 to 6.

Anonymous wrote:NP here. For those of you sleeping in separate room, aren’t you more sleep deprived because you have to walk to and from a different room to breastfeed your baby 3-4 times throughout the night?
Isn’t it easier and better for your sleep to pick your baby from a bassinet near your bed, nurse in bed, then put baby back right next to your bed?

I just don’t understand all of the posts that say the mother slept more, whereas I have to wake up to nurse during the night anyway. So it’s a matter of what sleep arrangement lets me stay drowsy while nursing and fall back asleep faster.

Not all babies nurse 3-4 times a night, especially past the first couple weeks. That wasn't my experience at all, he woke up one, maybe two times a night from about 6 weeks on. If he woke up more to eat, keeping him right next to me would have made much more sense.

4 mos with DC1, she started kicking the bassinet, nope...
5 mos with DC2, maximum age for Halo Bassinest

NP here. For those of you sleeping in separate room, aren’t you more sleep deprived because you have to walk to and from a different room to breastfeed your baby 3-4 times throughout the night?
Isn’t it easier and better for your sleep to pick your baby from a bassinet near your bed, nurse in bed, then put baby back right next to your bed?

I just don’t understand all of the posts that say the mother slept more, whereas I have to wake up to nurse during the night anyway. So it’s a matter of what sleep arrangement lets me stay drowsy while nursing and fall back asleep faster.