Cosleeping with crawling baby

[BabyMrSun325]

How do you do this? I don't have space to put mattress on the floor and baby LOVES to crawl or roll to any end of our bed to jump off it.

DH is going away on a 2 week work trip, I'm breastfeeding and baby is teething so I think we need to start cosleeping again (we did it briefly at 4 months).

All the bed rails I can see online say only safe for babies over 18 months. Are there any safe options for young babies?

Bed can't go flush against wall as it has some thick edges that go around (rented flat, we can't change the furniture). I could stuff a duvet in there but not ideal.

This is the type of edge the bed has, thick and soft (less fancy obviously)

What are you going to do when baby is a bit bigger? Maybe now is the time to sort the nursery and find a way to get a mattress on the floor in there, since you'll need a children's bed soonish anyway

I don't cosleep very often but if I have to I wrap my arm around him. I wake up as soon as he moves. Can't say that's what's recommended but it works for us. But I don't see why they would say 18m for a rail? The one I have (I haven't used yet) is a mesh material so not different to what his next to me was

@Paaseitjes we are moving to our house in the UK in 6 months :) we still live abroad at the moment. He also does have a lovely cot which he usually sleeps in well. The teething has thrown everything off.

He's so all over the place, he would honestly wake up and try to crawl off the bed which is no help to me in terms of sleeping.

The rails are all apparently a suffocation/entrapment risk. But maybe there are particular brands i haven't discovered which is why I am posting here.

Ah that's frustrating for this week. Good luck with the move! I think the bed guards will be safer than stuffed duvet because lower suffocation risk. The only solution I can think of is sewing velcro to the back of his sleep suit and sticking him down, but then I think you'd get woken by a very frustrated baby!

Actually, does he sleep in a sleeping bag and can he crawl if he's in one? That might constrain him a bit and at least slow him down

@Paaseitjes he has a thin sleeping bag yes but it doesn't stop him from crawling. He hates being contained so a tighter or heavier sack will make him scream until we let him out (we have tried already)

We had a fold up bed side. I slept as close to the other edge as I could so baby had most of the double bed. It meant that she was contained within the bed space and the side was just a back up.

We have a mesh bedrail which I think was from Argos but this probably isn't helpful to you if you're abroad!