Am I making a big mistake ???

[ANGELMOTHER]

Dd2 is now 10 days old and has slept every night in the bed with us so far, simply because it is easier to feed every 2 hrs this way rather than clamber across the room to the moses basket (no space to fit basket beside the bed).
We have a huge bed (6ft) so plenty of room and the duvet never reaches above our knees.
Truthfully I'm happy like this and she sleeps in her lie back chair or moses basket during the day, but I'm worried that maybe I'm making a rod for my own back in the future.
I know a lot of people will tell me I'm doing wrong in the first place but advice is appreciated...

Thought I'd revive this thread to ask those of you who moved their babies from co-sleeping to sleeping in cot/moses basket how you went about it. Aloha said she didn't have any trouble--was that true for others as well? Dd (6 weeks) is sleeping in our bed at night, which is lovely and snuggly, and she also sleeps well in the night. She generally only wakes up once between 11 and 7, so I'm not feeling as sleep deprived as I expected to at this point.

BUT, I am already worrying about how (and when) we are going to shift her out of the bed, as I know I'm not going to want her in with us forever. She sleeps quite well in the day time, and will usually sleep for longish periods in her basket if she is deeply asleep when put down. (My efforts to do the Tracey Hogg 'put them down awake so that they put themselves to sleep' thing have failed completely.) In the evenings, though, she won't sleep in her basket at all, and we've ended up carrying her around with us or having her sleep on us all evening, then taking her up when we go to bed. (Suggestions on how to change that would also be very welcome!) I'm sure if we were trying to get her to sleep in the basket all night she'd be a terrible sleeper.

Hi Ruth,
Well ds is coming up to 13 months and still spends some of most nights with us.
From about 8 weeks I started the bedtime routine, partly because dd (6) was getting fed up of going to bed before baby brother! So we started the typical routine of bath, darkened room, milk, cot... So he always go to sleep in his own cot. How long he remains there depends a little on how well he sleeps. If he wakes before I'm asleep, I put him back in his cot. If we're asleep ans dh hears him crying before me and can't resettle him, then he'll bring him into bed with us.
I still like having him there but it is nice to have some evening and at least some of the night alone IMHO
HTH