Bed Sharing....I admit

[OnionPatch]

My four-year-old still sleeps with us in our bed a lot of the time.

When I was pregnant, we bought the cute little crib, etc. but guess what....she ended up with us every night. Getting up several times a night and sitting in an armchair for an hour while she nursed was very much a pain. I only did it a few times. I just found it so much easier to have the baby right there with me. I've read lots of stuff pro and con and understand the cons, but for me, sleeping with her was just the natural thing to do. Something deep inside tells me that it's perfectly natural to curl up and sleep with your children, like all the other animals do.

Now, my daughter is four. She goes to sleep in her own bed but almost every night she wakes around 3am and wanders in and climbs in with us. I don't really mind and neither does my husband. (We have a king-sized bed and plenty of "alone time") I think she'll eventually stop coming in with us.

What do you think? Am I scarring her for life? Ruining her development? Or do any of you have similar stories?