My kids slept with me and I held them all of the time. I remember an elderly Great-Aunt scolding me when my oldest was just a few months old. He was in a playful mood and I was bouncing him around playing with him. She said "my god, he's not even crying, what are you going to do when he cries? You're spoiling that baby and you'll never be able to put him down."

In my own experience, my kids were very comfortable when I had to put them down to do something, they knew that I'd be coming back and were content. Hubby was the same way, we had a snuggy sack from day one. When hubby mowed the lawn, the baby was in the snuggy sack with a hat on.

The only problem we ran into was that we travelled a lot when the kids were small. Keeping them in the car seat at all times could be extremely difficult. It was unnatural to feed them in them.