Co-sleeping - how do you do it?

[Essie3]

As in, how do I do it having never done it before?
DS is 7 months, sleeps in a grobag.
I have a kingsize bed and have a duvet on it.

Do I go under the duvet and DS on top?

And how do I stop him rolling off the bed?

And will I roll on him and squash him?

My husband is away all next week and I'm still getting up in the night with DS who has separation issues at the mo, and frankly I can't be doing with trying to fix the problems when I could go for the easy option and sleep with him.

Dd is 20mo, and sleeps with us. WHen she was still in her grobag, she went over the top of the covers and we went underneath.

I've never rolled on her.

In 16 months (she slept beautifully in her own basket/cot until she was 4mo) she has fallen off the end of the bed once, and I have caught her making her way down the bed a few times. We put pillows at the end of the bed after that.

HTH

But trust me when I say this (and this is just IME) co-sleeping is not the easy option.

Our DS sometimes co sleeps with us, we usually have him in the middle of us, with us sleeping slightly lower than him - in theory I would notice if the duvet went up over my head so it would stop it going any further and up over his. I usually tuck the duvet under my feet too as an extra precaution. My only worry is pillows as we seen to be unable to sleep without them so turn them lengthways rather than the usual way and that clears up loads of room in the middle.

o-seeping is the easy option until you want them out of the bed... then its hellish.

I guess ds started sleeping with us when he was about your ds's age, because he breastfed about 90 million (okay, 4) times a night and I got too tired to keep getting up.

We had single duvets so ds could go between us with no worries. He was never keen on blankets or grobags but seems to snuggle up when he's cold.

oh and we didn't have rolling-on him worries because he was a great big lump. Ds, on the other hand, spends a LOT of time rolling on us!

JoeMcIntyre why would you say it's not the easy option? Is it getting out of the habit once you're into it?
Thing is he does sleep quite well in his cot - although this week everything is up in the air because he's all unsettled with starting nursery - and maybe I should persevere?

phdlife LOL and totally with you on the 90 million breastfeeds. We have that too, same 90 millions!

I think for us (and once again, this is just IME), the problem has escalated as dd has got older. To the point now, where at 20mo, if we even walk towards her bedroom door with her she starts screaming and pointing at our bedroom door. She also refuses to go in there for naps during the day now as well.

So we're in a situation where I have to go to bed at 9pm with her in our bed (great for your relationship with your dh), and to get her out of her bed and into her own room will be extremely difficult and not without some major tears.

So I agree with Disenchanted3 - it's fine until you want them out!