Would you, do you, use a sleepyhead at night?

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DS is 5 weeks old. Until now the sleepyhead has been for daytime naps only, however his night time sleep has completely gone to pot.
Last night, after hours of no sleep I cracked and put him in it, and had a lovely 4 hours of sleep. I was starting to fall asleep while feeding him so was more worried about that being a danger. After this DH is suggesting we use it at night, I've read the lullaby trust warnings and am worried, help!

@BertieBotts Yes and no, based on my reading. For interest, I was referring to this onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jpc.12402

If you have more up to date research is be interested to read it.

No I don't, sorry. In fact that is probably more up to date than my info, so perhaps I'm the one who is out of date :)

Very interesting that that paper refers to non-nutritive sucking, as that's a term I've heard in relation to breastfeeding and indeed co-sleeping, so if that does have a protective effect that makes sense with what I know about co-sleeping as well.

Sunshine I think one problem I have with the "very tired" advice is that it's not really clear - what does very tired mean? Is it just more tired than usual? Everyone is more tired than usual when they have a young baby, so that would mean it's not safe for anyone to co-sleep. That doesn't seem to tally with the research about co-sleeping which suggests that it is as safe if not safer for certain groups of people. So perhaps it means a particular level of tiredness which is higher than assumed when this statement is read, which probably means that bit of advice isn't especially useful, especially if it's putting people off a less risky option and causing them to choose a higher risk option. Perhaps if you're actually hallucinating with tiredness or have been awake for 36+ hours it's sensible to let somebody else look after the baby for a bit while you catch up to a normal level of tiredness and then co-sleep.

It has always been about choosing between different risks - years ago before these products were around MNers were asking "If he won't sleep on his back is it OK to let him sleep on his front? I'm too scared to co-sleep."

I'm concerned the demonisation of co-sleeping as this acutely risky thing causes people to choose mich higher risks out of desperation.

Baby boy 12 weeks, sleeps in his Sleepyhead in the living room for his morning and late afternoon nap where I can see him. Otherwise he’s in his Next To Me at night. But I wouldn’t dare use the sleepyhead in the Next To Me.
The fact Sleepyhead themselves advise its only for supervised sleeping is enough for me to not want to take the risk. Like one of the previous responses, wishing you hadn’t done something, is not a situation I want to be in.
Lullaby trust give their guidelines based on years of extensive research and just because it didn’t happen to one mother doesn’t mean you should heed their advice. People didn’t used to use car seats, doesn’t mean it’s safe!
Plus the number of posts there are about weaning off sleepyheads would also make me not want to be reliant on it for sleep!!