Sleep, Baby, Parenting By Ericka Lutz Sleep and my daughter Annie don't exactly go together. Since that first night in the hospital when all the other newborns slept their deep postpartum slumber, Annie has asserted her right to insomnia. As Annie never slept for more than two consecutive hours until well into her third year of life, Bill and I resorted to the family bed.
Many families practice, but few admit it.
Bill and I read up on family bed philosophy. One book even stated that children who slept in a family bed were less likely to be promiscuous later in life. However calming and outrageous the claims, I grew to believe in the family bed less from the theoretical point of view than the practical. I'm a grown up, self-reliant, and I don't like to sleep alone. And as the mother of a sleepless infant, I needed my sleep.