safety for co-sleeping?

[choolie]

does anybody have a quick link to safety issues when co-sleeping? DS has decided this is the best option for us all , but he sleeps in a gro-bag. i don't know if i should take him out of this, do i get rid of pillows, how do i keep warm etc???

I know I could google, but he is waking every hour at night at the moment and am so sleep deprived I can't face scrolling through loads of stuff and would be grateful if some kindly soul would give the basics, cheers.

I think grobag OK on top of the covers. No pillows till a year.

we have a bed rail at the side so he can't roll off. He sleeps between us but in a bigger bed you could bing him between you and the rail

This is the relevant page from the FSIDS site. For what it's worth, quite a few people on here (me included) think it's perfectly safe to co-sleep so long as you and your partner are sober, not smokers and are not taking any mood-altering drugs. Get rid of the pillows, or have DS at the top of the bed and put your pillows further down the bed (at his foot-levelm if that makes sense). Don't put him under the duvet.

A lot of these restrictions can be relaxed as babies get older.

links in this thread about safe co-sleeping

cheers, thanks for the info, much appreciated. Didn't know you could just put them on top of the quilt as was worried about over heating from underneath (I know, over cautious first timer!) so that's made a difference already ~(me and DH no longer freezing due to quilt being half way down bed!).
Thanks for that link ginger, i really should have done a search first shouldn't I ...what can i say, sleep deprived.

policywonk.. on being sober... if my partner has been drinking, but not me, and I keep DS on the outside of me, ie away from my partner, is that still OK ? I have a bed guard thing so that DS can't slip out the side.

suis - that's what i do tho would prefer not iykwim