co-sleepers, HONESTLY can you sleep with a baby jammed into your back/chest?

[jellybelly25]

How do you do it? I simply can't sleep with her in the bed... We're not co-sleeping on purpose, more like a last resort during this awful sleep phase we're havinga t the moment. And it made me wonder how you all manage it

i have a 3 year old and an 18 month old in my bed, plus a 22 year old

Its is not comfy!

And its not my choice either!

i hate those hats , grrrr

It suits me fine but then I have no partner and a big bed!

Hmmmm, DS likes to go horizontal and put his head on my chest and pummel DH with his feet. That's always popular. And if the duvet touches him in any way, he wakes up and screams.

Yay.

some nights are ok though, when he just cuddles up next to me and sucks his thumb. they make it all worth while.

we also just co sleep when dd (17mo) having bad night and dp ends on edge of bed she has my space and i curl up at bottom of bed or she lies accross my face and neck which is why i move down the bed (a kingsize bed)

I used to lie there and think 'this too shall pass' while being constantly nursed and kicked by DD. And it did. In about a month.

Also hating the witchy emoticons.

I have DP, DD 2.4, me and DS 10wks all in one bed

DD and DP sleep on his side she curls into him and DS and I face the other way in the usual cosleep position I curl around him

One child - no prolem. More than that is difficult. To say the least. When mine were younger and we had a bed jam DH or I would move out. Not ideal I guess but the best compromise in the circs. Older 2 sleep in their own beds all night but youngest still comes in most nights.

It's the arms and legs that bother me most. They always seem to be in my or stretched across me. And long toe nails can be painful....

in my face ....

I don't mind it.

But he is waking up all the time at the moment and I think it is us shifting around waking him.

Believe me, if you are tired enough, you'll sleep. I am the queen of not sleeping, but if you have a good pillow (the basis of all good sleep in my book), you can find a relatively comfy position, and the next thing you know, you're being kicked yet again, and its a couple of hours later....

It's not our choice (living in a 1 bedromm house) but we love sharring the same bed. DH is happy and usually has 1 half of the bed and DS (13 month old) the other - I end up being pushed to the side of the cot... But still love it!!!

i love it. dd is now 2.5. she snuggles right in. sometimes she sleeps across the bed but i just shift her back the normal way. at night she comes into a light sleep and checks to see where we are. there are times when she half awakes and tries to latch on to may face instead of a nipple.

I think you know when it's time to move them out. We have slept briliantly without arm attacks but my friends baby (and my friend) never liked it. Funnily enough we have just decided to put him in his cot (8 months) and he sensed it and now when he goes to sleep he is clinging to our arms for life! It's so cute,we'll wait a while longer.

You need a big bed so that the dc can sprawl and you can still have a little slice to sleep in. Also, I think it depends on how wiggly the dc is. My dd doesn't move all that much in her sleep (although sometimes find her with her feet where her head started...) so we co-sleep without too many problems. I love the snuggly time.

Also totally depends on the baby. I co-slept for 6 months with my ds (1st baby), but couldn't manage 3 weeks with dd. She was just too irritating and wiggly and snuffly....still can't stand having her in my bed overnight and she's 5 now. But the feeling is mutual...if she has a nightmare and crawls into bed with me, she'll get really upset if I don't put her back into her bed as soon as she has managed to fall asleep again.

when she was little ie 10 mo and under and bf she was fab to co sleep with she sed to nestle into either mine or her daddys arm and not move

now is a completely different story shes 15 months and a wriggler

Bundle of cosy loveliness at the moment (5 months) but his big brother(4) is still in there too and All I get is legs, legs and more legs stuck into me all night! Argh

But the upside is they both sleep like angels and I rarely have to get out of bed even if they wake

Bigger the bed the better...but they both always want to be right next to me however big it is...probably instinct as they do it in their sleep. Can be restricting!

You could try turning your back on her...might help. I hate to face anyone while sleeping, need the space to breathe etc..babies aren't too bad but sometimes I face away from ds2. Allows you to switch off a bit more.