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Co Sleepers - Do you all sleep with dc snuggled in??

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lauraloola · 26/11/2008 14:55

Dd is still in her snuggle nest at 5mo as I am still not sure about co sleeping without it.

I have asked questions before and lots of people said they snuggle their lo into their arm and sleep like that.

I am worried about rolling on her. She will sleep in her cot but if she wakes in the night I have her in with me - Dp sleeps on the sofa

Does anyone do it differently?

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hellymelly · 27/11/2008 22:43

Am co-sleeping with 18m old and a nearly four year old (and dh,who aims to lie with his head on a pillow at the top like any normal human,but often has to resort to sleeping along the bottom,like a labrador).The nearly-four does start out on a little mattress "extension" but always creeps into the big bed section anyway.With her,when she was a small baby like yours she slept inbetween us and now she sleeps next to me,baby sister the other side,and dh against the wall.(when not at bottom of bed).Its fine,very cosy ,if sometimes squashed.Only drawback is 18m old has a tendency to turn around and thump/kick me in the eyeball or nose.not the best way to wake up.

hellymelly · 27/11/2008 22:44

Oh and I didn't buy a bedbumper for the same reason as thumwitch.

hellymelly · 27/11/2008 22:49

Also forgot to add we have a mattress on the floor which I hate aesthetically but no worries about falling out.Our previous home was a boat and we had a really high bedbunk and had to literally barricade ourselves in every night.Horrendous de-barricading had to ensue when I was preg and needed to wee every three seconds.Oh happy days.

nappyaddict · 27/11/2008 22:58

helly - when yours were younger did they go in the big bed when you weren't in it yourself?

PortAndLemon · 27/11/2008 23:22

DD goes in the big bed when we're not in it. DS didn't and would start off the night in his cot, but DD isn't as active.

nappyaddict · 27/11/2008 23:33

How old is DD?

Caz10 · 27/11/2008 23:36

I've got a bed rail on our double bed - fits fine - it just isn't the same length as the whole of the side of the bed iyswim

nappyaddict · 27/11/2008 23:37

I always worry about bed rails in case they try and climb over them.

Lockets · 27/11/2008 23:51

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nappyaddict · 27/11/2008 23:53

oh DS would pull up on anything that he could once he learned how to.

PortAndLemon · 28/11/2008 00:19

8 months on Sunday.

Although, having said that, tonight she just wouldn't settle properly in the bed and I put her down in her Amby hammock instead. But normally she just goes down for the night in the bed.

nappyaddict · 28/11/2008 00:30

is she crawling or pulling up yet?

KittyFloss · 28/11/2008 00:42

Did anyone elses dc's hate cosleeping? I did try it when they were really little but was too chicken to actually do it full time, dc's always settled better in cot/moses basket. Now at 2 and 5 they won't cosleep even if necessary .Well 5yo isn't too bad, but they view double bed time as playtime and jump all over the place aaaarghhh.

PortAndLemon · 28/11/2008 00:57

Yes, she's crawling/pulling up to kneeling. And is pulling up to standing, but only in one particular spot on the coffee table -- I don't think she's worked out that she could do it other places yet .

JodieO · 28/11/2008 01:23

I co-slept with all 3 of mine, just about to head to bed so I'll reply more tomorrow. There are studies that show mothers that breastfeed are more in tune with their babies though and naturally won't roll onto them at night, I think this even extends to fathers but in a lesser way. I read this a while ago so haven't any links, I'll have a look tomorrow. Ds2 (2 in early Jan) still co-sleeps half/all of the night.

IlanaK · 28/11/2008 08:16

We have a bedrail on our superkingsize bed. They are supposed to be used on single beds only, but ours is fine and very secure on our bed.

nappyaddict · 28/11/2008 09:26

PortAndLemon - do you have anything on the bed to stop her crawling off at night or anything on the floor to create a soft landing?

Has she always gone in the big bed on her own for naps and before you go up at night?

PortAndLemon · 28/11/2008 11:40

I do fence her in with bolsters now; they wouldn't stop her if she wanted to get over them but stop her rolling off in her sleep. Up until about 5.5 months (when to begin with she couldn't roll, and then could roll but just didn't at night) I didn't do that but did put pillows on the floor by the side of the bed just in case (never any issues though).

Now with DS at the same age he was so active I would never have considered leaving him on his own, so he always went down in his cot. But DD is more laid back and just yells if she wakes up. I am thinking about switching to start her off in her hammock or cot at the start of the night as well sometime in the next few weeks/month, though.

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