Bedclothes and co-sleeping

[cloudberry]

I have have my 6 and a half month old ds sleeping with us for about 10 weeks now. I have got one of those Baby Dan bed rail guard things and am really enjoying having him with me - not sure I could say the same for dh though ...! One thing that I have been wondering about is what people do about bed clothes/covers. Ds has a grobag. He starts off in his cot and although I hope each night that he will stay there, I always end up having to take him into our bed. Our house is old and cold and I keep him in his grobag - he's now in the 2.5 tog one. I cover myself with the duvet, being careful not to wrap him up too but invariably during the night we change sides to feed and once he's between me and dh, he gets covered by the duvet, though not over his head, somehow that hasn't happened yet. Because of the position I lie in with my arm under my head and shoulders outside the duvet to stop it falling on ds, I find I get quite cold and am worrying about what happens when winter arrives as I don't want to freeze!! And I don't what ds to get too hot, or too cold either. So how do you experienced co-sleepers manage this one?

[shazdisembodiedronnie]

You could wear a long sleeve pj top to keep your arms warm, or you could try putting baby on top of the duvet when he is in the middle. My 2 were often in bed with me for half the night and they were fine! Sometimes it was easier to slip the grobag off if I wasn't planning to put them back in their own bed.

[BikeBug]

I always shift ds back to the bed guard side and on top of the duvet or on the mattress with the duvet tucked (selfishly it always feels!) around me. I would worry about him being too hot with a grobag and the duvet and our body heat. But I also always sit up to feed, which makes it easier to shift him around - would be harder if I fed lying down.

[iris66]

I wear a dressing gown & just have my legs under the covers (DH relegated to spare room) I daren't have DS out of his grobag as he wriggles too much (and has a tendency to kick me)and crawls round the bed. Know what you mean though - our house is pretty draughty - I'm not looking forward to winter if he's still co-sleeping then

[cloudberry]

Thank you for replies. I think I put too much emphasis on me and what to do when it gets cold!! What I really wnated to know is what people dress their babies in when they co sleep with them. From what shazdisembodiedronnie and bikebug have said I guess the grobag is probably too much. I know it probably seems like a stupid question to ask but I thought I'd ask anyway......

[hitchcock]

i had both my babies in winter, and what we did was i had a flecce blanket and the heating on very low and we were nice and warm. dp had the duvet on him at the beginning but after the first few days he took it off and we used a sheet and the blanket. dd has started sleeping in our bed again and we have gone back to it and we are all warm and toasty.

[hitchcock]

ps what i dressed them in is a baby gro and vest.

[cloudberry]

Thanks hitchcock. Need to look for our version of fleece blanket and take off ds's grobag. Am now going to bed!

[Hattie05]

i didn't use gro bags so dd was in babygrow and vest or vest and pj's, and she'd come under our duvet.