newborn & cosleeping advice please

[OnlyWantsOne]

I feel like a very useless 1st time mum, however DD2 nd I need some advice, she's 5 days old,matress for bed side cot doesnt arrive till tomorrow

can ypou tell me what you do / did when you co slept your baby from new born?

what do i put ruby in to sleep so she doesnt get too hot??

There's different schools of thought. Some say put in sleepsack on top of duvet. Some say (I think) that your heat will regulate babies. I used to put babygro with a cardigan and then put duvet just up to baby's waist (we have a very cold house!). I put duvet right over myself, so baby was higher up the bed than me iyswim. I have no idea if this is good/ recommended practise, but it's worked for me with 3 babies! I had no other adults in bed though, just me and baby.

sleeping bag on top of duvet here :)

I think there is a link on the mumsnet chapter about sleep to the unesco site where they have diagrams.
I do babygrows and he's under the duvet, but we have the heating on all night. You may want to have a look at the book three in a bed but skip the first couple of chapters as she uses icky 1950s facts.

Hi, there's tonnes of information/help/advice about co-sleeping on www.naturalmamas.co.uk HTH

My Ds was born in December, granted not as cold as the current one but cold enough. He was in a sleepsuit and a baby blanket, the duvet was kept well away from him but I also use a sheet and a blanket (my duvet is more of an eiderdown) so he was under those with me. I found that he was a very hot baby though so dispensed with the baby blanket after a few days as he was heating up too much - he was just under the sheet and blanket next to me. This was enough for him; I had the duvet over me but folded so it couldn't go near him.
DH slept in the spare room - he couldn't cope with the interruptions and the space I needed for co-sleeping.

Oh yes - I always had my arm out above DS's head as well to prevent me rolling over (impossible to do without dislocating/breaking shoulder)

fab night sleep

put DD in body suit and pj bottoms under quilt but she was fine temp wise, BF all night i think

had very empty boob this morning and one hugely full one!!