What do you do with the duvet if you co-sleep?

[McKayz]

I've been thinking about co-sleeping with dd who is due in just over 5 weeks. We have a cot in our room and also a Moses basket. But I am tempted by co-sleeping when I read about being able to stay in bed while they feed.

But I am not sure what to do about the duvet. I do like being wrapped up in it most nights.

So how do you co-sleep and still stay warm overnight?

Bedguard and baby on outside side f bed for most of night. You wrapped up in duvet leaving free mattress space for baby.

I only co -sleep if DH has gone to sleep in the spare room (because of dd being unsettled, not because we sleep in separate rooms!). That way I can position dd in the middle of the bed with me perched on a precipice to one side of her. The duvet covers me and then trails onto the floor. Even better would be a single duvet.

I lie under the duvet. DS gets wrapped in a blanket and sleeps next to me but on top of the duvet.

I think I'll only co-sleep when DH is away with work.

It all makes sense now though. Baby on the duvet or duvet on the floor seems very obvious.

i use a single duvet so i dont have to worry about it going over dd, tho she is 17mths now so it wouldnt be a problem and she sleeps in a sheet and a blanket, my boys all slept in a grobag (dd isnt a fan!) and i either used a single duvet or just had the duvet trail down onto the floor as others have said :)

i have a big futon with one side up against the wall, the co-sleeping baby/child sleeps on the wall side, then me and then dp generally. we also ahve a toddler bed that is the same height of the futon at the foot end of our bed so if we want a bit of space we move the baby to there and if they wake they just crawled back up into bed with us, worked fine for us and our 5 :)

I pull the duvet right over to my DHs side leaving me with a tiny bit just to the very edge of the bed which I tuck under my body (lying on my side facing baby). Oh and I pull it down at the bottom too. DH gets a cold back but I dont because I get down low with the baby, pillow on an angle so its nowhere near babys head.

I put DS back in the baby hammock right next to bed till he was 13 months but then when we coslept I put his arms on top of duvet and put my arm round him so he didn't go down and my leg in a way to stop him sliding down too at the legs.

I sleep with the duvet pulled down to my waist with baby lying on her side on the exposed bit of mattress next to me. I lie on my side with one arm hooked around the top of her head so she can't wriggle up to the pillow.