Co-Sleeping

Alright everyone, I decided for my first OFFICIAL post, I was going to talk about the negative impacts that co-sleeping with your children, has on your child.

I am no psychologist, but from what I see and hear and also read, co-sleeping can be detrimental to you and your child's life. FIRST OF ALL! When your child is an infant, it's easier to keep your baby next to you so you can breast feed every 2 hours and you wont have to go very far to do so. Well, there are many reasons why this is bad, but I will only name a few.

1. You can suffocate your child so easily. Once you stay up and deal with a baby, you are so beyond the point of exhaustion, that you wont even wake up if you roll over on top of them.
2. It will be harder to let go of your child and create that sense of independence for them. A child needs their own space. If you, as a parent, are always with that child, they will become dependent on other people. 
3. Making your chid sleep in their own bed once they are older will be hard to accomplish. the child will get so used to sleeping with you, that they won't want to move to their own room. I have seen this first hand and I swore to myself I would NEVER co-sleep with my child.

I also thought of my marriage/relationship with my significant other. If a child is always between you guys sleeping in the bed, where is your alone time? You eventually will forget about it. Imagine what that will do to your marriage. 

I long for bedtime when Hubby and I can sit down and talk about things together and be together without any interruptions. SO my advice to every parent out their, don't even entertain the idea that co-sleeping is a good thing. Because it's not. :) 

Hope those of you who have opinions on this matter will comment! I will take good and bad reactions! BRING IT ON!!! :) <3