Can anyone talk to me about co-sleeping?

[kittypink]

Hia, am just wanting information, ideas or points of view on co-sleeping. DD gets really unsettled at around 4am and the only way that I can get her to sleep more is to put her in bed with me and DH.

I put her on top of the duvet in between us and although I don't think that I would roll on her, I worried that DH might. She doesn't roll yet but is trying to so am cautious about putting her on one side.

Is there any safe way of carrying on putting her with us or is it a big no-no?

I have pushed her cot right up against the bed but it doesnt work the same.

Would appreciate any thoughts. thanks

DD1 is 10, and still sleeps with me, if that helps. At the risk of sounding like her who should not be named .....

How did it go, Kitty?
Hope you got a better night's sleep!
We pulled the cot mattress across till it was right up against our bed mattress, and then stuffed the (small) gap on the far side of the cotbed mattress with towels, to make sure no little arms or legs could get stuck. You may not need to - depends on the design of your bed...

Was not a great night!

It may be that she was facing a different direction and everything was a bit strange to her, so i will reserve judgment!

She decided to practice talking from 1-3am which would have been cute had it not been 1-3am!

We have stuffed the far side of the cot with her old moses basket mattresses. Gives them more uses.

She did hold my hand though which was very cute.

Kitty, DD2 normally sleeps on my right, so has to roll to her left to find me, once she decided to sleep in the middle between DP and I, and in the wee small hours tried to latch onto DP because he was on her left!! It was very funny

I'm sure she'll get used to the new situation quickly and peaceful, easy nights will follow.

It says in a book somewhere (I forget which one!) that sometimes if you bring them into your bed, they will be wriggly and wanting to play for the first few nights, but after a few nights they will see you both asleep and sort of accept that night time is for sleeping. We co-slept from the beginning with DS so haven't had the problem of him waking up wanting to play (well very occasionally).

i have co slept since ds was born and he is now 3.6 years, its the best thing i ever did and he has now started saying he wants his big boy bed, he self weaned from the breast at 2.10 years and i never thought he would! he is a happy noisy confident boy and i am so glad i did what i wanted and not what so called experts told me to do!

Another fun filled night! she wanted to play again at 4am. When she did go back to sleep though she didn't wake up again till 8:45!!!!

I think its going to get better though because a couple of times when she stirred I was able to settle her by just placing my hand on her chest.

She has already self weaned from the breast at only 6 months old so I think the closeness of co-sleeping will be good for her.

I feel very encouraged by all your positive comments and experiences.

I thought the health visitors chin was going to hit the floor when I told her we had taken the side off the cot and attached it to the bed. I think she is concerned that DD will roll off the bed. It would take a whole lot of rolling! I have been taking the duvet off the bed if she is in bed without us just in case she does roll.