My son is 2, coslept since 5 months, he falls asleep without me and just joins us when he wakes in the night. Babies NEED their parents. They need them while awake and while asleep and this idea that you’ll ‘spoil’ them by having them close is ridiculous. You can’t give a baby too much attention.

New studies show lesser chances of SIDS if a baby can hear his/her parents’ sleep noises. The theory is that it keeps them falling into a too-deep sleep that they can’t wake out of. All three of my children slept in my room – my youngest until she was two (because we had no space for her until construction was done) and she is the BEST sleeper! Baby number 4 will sleep in a contraption just like this, just as my other 3 did.