Any co-sleepers used one of these?...

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I'm not set on co-sleeping. I did on and off with my older 2 but haven't decided whether I want to try seperate beds this time.

But my mum bought me this for baby when shes downstairs in the evening, maybe in her cot... but I was thinking it would be good to use whilst she is tiny for in the bed. It will be ot, this thing with DD in then me and DH.

this here, ive got the pink one which is on sale at £10 cheaper

Saw these in the states and didn't know you could get them here til ds2 was already in his own room. I would definitely have used one. We had ds1 on a feather pillow between us when he was tiny then he was so arms and legs everywhere this would have been a godsend.

Thanks for that I think it does look quite useful!

i only have a regular double bed, not sure that'd fit in the middle and still leave room for us1

Cannot imagine using it for co-sleeping as I breast feed. To breastfeed at night lying down, dcs were on their side. This would have prevented that.

I'd go for a bedside cot, we bought ours off ebay for £26, but any drop side cot can be converted into a bedside cot, you just take the sliding side off and cable tie it to the side of your bed. I think that nest thing might look nice(in the picture) but I feel it would be brilliant for banging your head on in the night, and you'd still have to take the baby out to bf which to me negates one of the main reasons for co-sleeping, which is pure laziness and the ability to feed whilst mostly asleep and without moving/disturbing the baby!

Im not sure I'm going to breastfeed TBH.

Well its on its way now and we can see how it goes when she gets here

Good one of the things that always worried me was rolling over onto them in the night (I know everyine says you wouldn't but still...). As its goes at the top of the bed between the pillows I would imaging it's fit even on a standard double.

let us know how you go anyway...still have hopes for number 3 so who know...

Looks good but having a 10week old co sleeper she has to sleep next to me

Agree bedside cot is fab

Hanaflower, just because I might not breastfeed doesn't mean I won't be attuned to my baby and she wont be waking to feed throughout.

In fact, my 2 year old wakes everynight and I always wake a few minutes before he does as I just KNOW he is going to wake at that point!

And before you ask its not that I don't WANT to breastfeed, I just couldn't with my previous two and tried, and don't know if i want to repeat the hell i went through last times when in all likelyness ill just ebnd up defeated and on bottles.

and my 2 year old is in another room!

Actually just ignore my last posts,

this was about whether this was a good product to put baby in, in the bed with us.

I don't get involved in BFing debates.

I co-slept with a baby and was mixed then ff - I always slept in the 'bf mum' position anyway, think it is a natural position tbh and just cos you ff doesn't take away all the other bits of bf. (Btw am bfing ds happily this time). We had a co-sleeper (small bedside cot) and was fab - think this product would be great... and you could obv feed a bottle lying down (which I did).

And I do the same thing with my 2 yo - it's v annoying, you go - why have I randomly woken up and then they start .

"you sleep more deeply if you aren't b/fing"

Would love to see the evidence for that one!!!

Sorry, hanaflower, that was a little sarcastic.

The fact that the 'research' is published in a book rather than appearing in the scientific literature is what concerns me. This tells me that there's no/little good quality scientific data to support many of the bfding myths that a frequently bandied about. Don't get me wrong I'm a great believer and supporter of breat feeding. But I do get annoyed at the way pseudoscientific arguments or arguments with no scientific basis whatsoever are used to support bfding while implying bottle fed babies are in some way receiving inadequate care/nutrition.

I do appreciate that not what you were saying BTW just felt like a little rant

Def don't want to get into big discussion here but just wanted to point out that I have def also heard of a study which implied that bf mothers slept more lightly than non bf mothers. Something to do with high levels of oxytocin if I remember rightly

yes have read that too. will see if I can find more info on it.

and pheebe I do not think it's in any way implying that a bottle fed baby is not cared for adequately.

just that with a breastfeeding mother co-sleeping is safer.

ok, well the Unicef and FSID leaflet on bedsharing states on the sleeping position bit, in BOLD that:

if you are bottle feeding the safest place for your baby to sleep is in a cot by your bed

so, I would presume that is based on something, but it doesn't say what. Am looking into it

thanks thisisyesterday, would be good to know as this seems to crop up here so often

there is an ongoing study here

Helen Ball from that study linked spoke at our (ABM) conference this summer about this study. She showed video clips of co-sleeping parents - both bf and bottle feeding. There was no doubt at all that they slept totally differently.

I can sort of understand the theory but having co-slept with both and sleep in the same way, perhaps there are also individual differences in sleep too? Or is it that because dd had some bf (mixed fed for 3 weeks) that counts - which would be an interesting case for the idea that any bf you do has an effect?