Co sleepers , what do you do when baby is ready for bed & you aren't?

[HarrietJones]

Where do you put then down?

Dd3 was sleeping in the cot then coming in bed after her first feed. Now she is v difficult to settle but sleeps 10secs after being put in our bed (even without us)

I feed him to sleep and then leave him in the middle of the bed - he's not mobile yet. When he gets a bit older we're going to put the matress on the floor and carry on.

Can you tell I'm of the 'path of least resistance' school of parenting? :o

We put our mattress on the floor.Then if they roll out its not so terrible,although dd2 once rolled as far as the door and when I went up to her as she was crying she said "you've left me here,all on my own on the floor"(she was about 15m).

4m old DD2 sleeps in our arms/her bouncy chair in the evening, then whoever goes to bed first takes her with them.

DD1 used to always go in her cot until first waking, but DD2 won't co-operate with that plan.

Dd3 is mobile!

Dh & I wouldn't manage a Mattress on the floor due to physical problems.

I'm wonderig this. dS2 goes to bed about nine in the evening at the mo, but sooner or later we will have to put him to bed earlier (slight hijack - when? He is 7wo). We have a bedside cot from John Lewis- would this help you? You can slide the side against the bed up or down. Or put him in the middle and set up pillows as buffers?

We can't fit a cot at the side and she can climb over the pillows! I'm more bothered about her pitting them on her face as she tends to do with blankets.

Re bedtime , we just take her when she seems ready & is all full of milk. It's getting earlier but we tend to get dd1/2 to bed first as they can be noisy as they pass and will wake her if she's just gone down

Bed rail? Cushions on the floor?

11month old DD is finally starting the night in the cot!! :o

What we used to do though was to put the bed against the wall and use a combination of folded duvet & a bazillion pillows to keep her from falling out the end and side. We also watched the video monitor like hawks and bounded up the stairs at the slightest movement. It was a huge relief though the first night she slept in the cot - we were watching tv and realised that we could have the volume at a normal level - previously we would have had it really low in case we didn't hear her stirring.

We ...

1. Have cot attached to one side of bed and gap between cot and foot of bed filled with a solid foam pillow.

1. Have duvet on floor in case she crawls off the far side

1. Teach baby to turn around and drop feet first, when they come to an edge. Currently training our 10 month DD2 to do this on the top section of the stairs.

We have a bed guard one one side but awake time has shown she wriggles past it.