Cosleeping and rolling 14 week old... any advice?

[TittyBojangles]

My DS sleeps in his cotbed which is pushed next to our bed with the side off so it is sort of cosleeping and sometimes during the night if he is difficult to resettle after a feed I just keep him in bed with me.

He goes to bed between 7 and 8 and settles well in the cotbed. DH and I go up around 10ish.

DS is 14 weeks has just started rolling and I wondered if this effected what anyone else did re sleeping arrangements? My DH thinks we need to put the side on the cotbed in case he wakes between 7 and 10 and rolls onto our bed. I don't think we need to as a)We hear him wake on the monitor b)it doesnt really matter if he does roll onto our bed. Am I being a bit lax with safety? Is DH right?

I am just lazy and it is so much easier to feed/resettle with the arrangement we have now than if we were to put the side back on.

Any advice gratefully received.

anyone?

Hi I have co slept with my d.d who is now 7 months since she was born. It wasn't intentional, we just both kept falling asleep before I could get her back in the cot. We have had no safety problems ( I think you instinctively arch away from them) but I would say it may be an idea to put the side on as my d.d wants to feed constantly thru the night. She isn't really feeding but just sucking for comfort and if i try and put her in the cot she just cries...and cries... and cries. So might be an idea to put the side up just so your d.s doesn't get too use to you being there? Not that I don't like my d.d being by my side but my boobs are sore and I'm knackered!

There isn't really a problem once I am in bed. It's the time he is in his cot from when he goes to bed til I do.

He doesn't feed constantly through the night, but is just easier to get to him when he does wake IYSWIM.

Thanks for your advice Talou.

Sorry, I misread. In that case, I can't see it's a problem him rolling onto your bed, like you say you have the monitor so you can watch what he's doing. I am putting my d.d in her own room tonight, hoping that as I am not near her she will sleep better. She is fast asleep at mo so fingers crossed. Will miss her tho!

We have an arrangement like yours. Our DD can roll, but only one way, so she could end up on our bed, but couldn't roll over and over to get off the far side. She does turn around so that she has her legs over our bed or at the head end of her cot. What does your DH think might happen to your DS if he rolls?

Hi we've got the same arrangement cotbed up against bed. My DD isn't rolling yet but DH wants to put the side back on when she does. Like you I am not hauling myself out of bed to lift her out in the night. Especially as I start back in full time work in 2 months. Things I have thought of...

I know you can buy mesh type things to go on the side of a bed, this could possibly be squeezed between the two mattresses, they are not as high so he could be lifted over or just remove it when you go to bed. Or put it on the other side of the bed?

Or put him to sleep sideways in the cot so he can only roll to the ends of the cot.

Or put a crashmat on the other side of the bed

Or tell DH not to be so silly and chill out.

Halfbaked, great ideas thaks. Never thought of putting him sideways seems so obvious now! A mesh divider to lift him over??? Oh god no, I am FAR too lazy for that

breatheslowly I'm not sure what DH thinks will happen if he rolls, I think it's more the idea that he might somehow get suffocated in our duvet or something. Though I pull this well away from the cot when I put DS down.

Talou, our monitor is just a sound one so I'd have to hope I heard him rolling. Though to be honest he only really rolls when wide awake or when trying to get to my boobs me so I'm pretty sure I'd hear him.

I think if I don't remind him about it DH will probably forget all about it and let me continue as we are. I just wanted to check I wasn't being overly lax with safety.