The big sleep question - to cosleep or not?

I can't tell you how many times I've gone back and forth in my head about this. Initially I refused to let my little girl sleep next to me. I simply was terrified of squashing her. But a few months passed, and she's a lot stronger. After a 2 month vacation with her, I decided to switch her to sleep in her room. This was after we returned from our vacation. Well that was a royal failure. She completely rejected her bedroom crib. Now when we were on vacation, I was breastfeeding a lot and often I wasn't sleeping at home, so she co-slept with me quite a bit.

That being said, she still slept pretty much wherever I put her. This return home where she was refusing her crib was the first time I'd dealt with this. So my solution, I put her in the bed next to me. After 2 weeks I was able to coax her into sleeping in the playpen beside my bed. I know people say that if you let your kids cosleep it will be impossible to get them out of your bed - but maybe it's just my naivety but I simply don't believe that. Looking at her behavior, it was just very obvious to my husband and I that our little one was simply not ready to be on her own.

So here I am with an almost-8 month old and she sleeps in our bed at night. Some nights my husband sleeps next to me . I thought it would be a miserable thing - but honestly it's not that bad. Now for those that say my child might be developing some weird sleep associations... here are a few intersting facts about my little one's sleeping preference:

• She will sleep in her playpen downstairs without issue
• She will sleep on the floor without issue
• She will sleep on a couch without issue
• She will sleep in our bed whether we are in the bed or not 

Since she seems to be changing all the time regarding her sleep preferences.... we're going to let her ride this out. After all - I've never seen a kid ruined from being loved too much. If sleeping next to us gives her a sense of peace, it's worth any potential inconvenience for now.