So, we are breastfeeding and cosleeping....

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Hi, not sure of this is feeding or sleeping question!

I am ebf dc2 who is 4 months old, 2 months corrected (8 weeks prem). She is over ten pounds now and really doing just fine. I have been prescribed nutriprem high calorie milk for her to give as and when as she did have a little weight issue when we were first discharged but she doesn't like bottles and I only use it if I go out without her ( I can't express very well). She is a dummy and bottle hater! But I am happy feeding her for now.

My main question is... Sleeping with me. She is now breastfeeding herself to sleep at around nine or nine thirty at night. She wakes if I leave the room. So I end up going to bed with her. I am going to try and solve this by leaving the telly on low and really tucking her in as if I am still next to her.

The maim thing is, she is not feeding at all in the night. Sometimes once. She will sleep from nine thirty until eight in the morning. So I don't really want her in my bed! Nor does DH. We are both tall people and find it a bit of a squash. The cot is in our room but she seems to sleep less in it. She definitely loves our bed! Any strategies for reducing the cosleeping?

Can you take the side off the cot and put it next to the bed? If you make sure the mattresses are more or less the same height and tie the cot to your bed frame so there's no gap to slide down, you can just slide her across when she's asleep and reclaim your bed space!

Our bed is really high up. So that wouldn't work. She doesn't nap in the day unless ten mins in car seat so no way of getting her used to cot with naps. Will have to keep being bothered to transfer her I guess, usually I get so tired I can't be bothered!

We ended up buying a bigger bed..

I think I read something once about someone letting their baby fall asleep on the cot sheet and then when baby was asleep, lifting them with the sheet and transfer to the cot. Something like that anyway.

No chance, bed is only a year old and quite big enough! Had dd1 in her own room by now, must be going soft! I think as she was prem I'm a bit more inclined to keep her close but I'm fed up of her having my side and me having to put up with DH on his side! And my frozen shoulder is really playing up with it.

Could you raise the height of the cot to bed level, then attach? We have done this.