Bedsharing/cosleeping after C section

[Kiopa]

Hello,
I hadn't been planning to bed share/cosleep with my little one but I'm struggling to cope with the lack of sleep and he's only a week old! He won't sleep when put in his (side car) crib and I'm knackered from holding him all night long (not to mention my sore shoulders). I tried sleeping with him in my bed, following all the safe sleep guidelines, and it was brilliant. We slept happily for 1hr30. But when he was waking he was kicking me in the tummy. Not too hard or directly on my wound but enough that it was hurting me. Does anyone have any advice / ideas for how to avoid this while not compromising safe sleep. The obvious thing is to use a pillow but then I'm not sure how I can do that safely.

Seems you have him quite low if he’s able to kick you in your tummy? When I bed shared with my newborns I had them up high next to my head .
I had them on their own blanket and had them in a sleep sack rather than under a duvet so there were no blankets that could fall on their face. My latest baby was moved her her bassinet at roughly 3 weeks old as she was settled in there but my boy was much longer.

Solidarity...I co-slept with my newborn after CS for the same reason! I don't remember him kicking my tummy - I think he was sleeping higher up. How about putting one of those big chunky Kotex nighttime pads across your scar to protect it at night from wandering little legs?

Ah thank you! You can tell how tired I am that I didn't think to just move him away from my tummy! I'll do the pad too though in case he wriggles down (feel like this is inevitable)