I'm co-sleeping with my 2 weeks old dd...

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I've seen you around as Mrs Carrot, I assumed that was a Terry Pratchett reference.

forget your hv's words about 6 weeks - where do they get this info from????

Check out the unicef babyfriendly leaflet that KisKidee has linked and co-sleep for as long as you both want.

I've co-slept & bf at the same time - lovely.

Also co-slept at the hospital - no problem. Beds narrow but then I just took up a really small space and blocked the otherside side with the cupboard.

baby's fine thanks, missed the distinction by 2 marks though, oh well!

Terry Pratchet? What reference is this?

[sorry for hijack]

got married, hence name change!

We co-slept with ds on and off from birth til a month ago, we moved house and moved him into his own bed at the same time. Now he still comes in if he wakes in the night, god knows what your hv was going on about with the six week 'rule'. If it works for you, and it's safe, then do whatever suits!

yes apologies for hi jack. (congratulations on your wedding There is a Captain Carrot in Terry Pratchett's books).

ah, I see, I haven't read those. Have a nice weekend

My sister had mattresses on the floor so no one could fall out. They co slept (her twins) until they were 5.
I sometimes have when too exhausted to remove the baby but I could never properly sleep with it next to me so I'd pick it up and dump it as far away from me on the bed as possible in the hope it would stay put and the little rotters then worm their way over like magnets to curl up next to me and wake me up again. Just not something that worked for me. I need to sleep on my stomach with no one touching me, no one moving and no one making a noise.

(My sister didn't get any proper sleep or through nights for 5 years either but that was her choice)

LOL at Xenia's wriggly little babies.
DS1 co-slept with us until he was 2+.
DS2 co-slept until about 3 months, when he kept smacking me in the face with his hands at regular intervals, and he developed a peculiar talent for digging his toes into my ribs.

it was the hosptial staff with dd that made me co-sleep. she was screaming all night and they propped her into the bed with me, put up the rail and lodged a chair outside it and a pillow inside it and left us like that. all the staff seemed to feel it was the best way and when i had ds and just automatically brought him into the bed with me they were very approving.

tbh, i know more parents that have at least partially co-slept than parents who haven't.

Have co-slept with my daughter from the day of her birth full time to just under 2 years when she had a single bed of her own that she was rather proud of. She now spends about half the time in bed with me and half in her bed, she decides. We bought a cot bed and moses basket before she was born and she had odd tries in them but never really took to it. I love waking up to her sleeping face usually with her lying across me some how even though we have a huge bed and there is plenty of space. I think she likes the contact.