It would be SO HELPFUL to hear back from people who co-sleep or who used to share a bed with their kids at some point. Everyone I know thinks this is a CRAZY thing to do! My daughter (age 3) recently moved BACK into our bed because she felt left out seeing her little brother (20 months) getting all the extra mommy time. So now it can get rather squishy in our queen bed. My husband refuses to buy a king because he doesn't want this to continue for too much longer. I don't mind it as much as he does.

My only fear is that it will never end. We bought a beautiful, new, full sized, Serta bed for my daughter and she loves it but she'd still rather sleep with us. We kept her toddler bed in her room hoping our son would sleep in the same room with her and they could keep each other company. This hasn't happened yet but hopefully they will someday?

I also wish they would fall asleep on their own without my company so I could have more time to myself in the evening. I usually lay down with them for about 30 minutes until they fall asleep. It gets really frustrating when everyone else's children I know fall asleep by themselves and sleep through the night. My son STILL occasionally wakes up even though we co-sleep and likes to be rocked back to sleep. That is really, really, really hard to handle in the middle of the night. I blame myself and/or get blamed for not demanding more from him. After reading Sears I thought this was positive night time parenting, but it's hard to stick with it when you are doing it alone.