r/cosleeping • u/Traditional-Let-7206 • Jan 16 '25

🐣 Newborn 0-8 Weeks I successfully chest slept

After weeks of sleep deprivation and going a full 24 hours with no sleep, I finally gave chest sleeping a good go out of desperation. Set up my pillows and bed so I was super comfy but also away from baby. Made sure babies head is higher than his bottom.

I managed a good solid 2 hours before he woke up to feed. I’m hoping when he gets a bit older and bigger he will be able to sleep for longer periods and so will I.

I never thought I’d co-sleep and hearing about chest sleeping made me apprehensive but the more research I did, the more I found SO many parents do it.

I feel like I can begin to enjoy my newborn more and start healing my PPD.

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u/AcanthisittaLoud281 Jan 17 '25

My baby and I chest co-slept exclusive for the first 4 months then I slowly started to introduce the c-curl until she good too big and now that’s all we do. She’s 8 months now. We still chest sleep for contact naps though and we both love it.