BFing co-sleepers - night time burping?

[jumpjockey]

I've seen quite a few people say they co-sleep and bf their babies by basically latching on and then both nodding off together. We've been doing this and it generally works great in terms of getting plenty of sleep (though I sometimes wake up an hour later with DD still attached just sucking as if I was her thumb ) but my main concern is wind - is there a way to get the wind up periodically without waking her up? Or is it like the dream feed where they're supposedly so relaxed they don't swallow much air? She's usually pretty farty but not too troubled by burps - do I need to worry or not?

dd is 18 weeks, usually feeds at about midnight then every couple/few hours after that until morning.

I don't co-sleep full time with DD (3 months) but do feed her in bed lying down and then transfer to her cot which is wedged up next up to the bed. If she doesn't settle she comes back in with me. Apart from early weeks I haven't really 'burped' her (she is my second baby) and it doesn't seem to cause any probs.

If your DD was unhappy about it I'm sire she'd let you know

RC that's actually pretty much the same as us - we're not co-sleeping in the strictest sense (she's far too wriggly ) but she goes to sleep in a bedside cot and then when I wake up after her feed with a slightly dea arm , shunt her back across.

in that case I shan't worry Sharpening my own rod it seems...

DS was never very windy so didn't have a problem - however there was the occasional night where he would wake up a few hours later in pain from wind. I used to hold him to me and roll onto my back so he ended up lying on my chest and I'd rub his back this way, which seemed to make him fart more than burp but it did get the wind up.

If it was really bad I'd have to sit up and wind him but that didn't happen very often.

BF and co-sleep and never wind DS doesn't seem to bother him at all either. If your DD isn't bothered then I wouldn't worry about it.