Co sleeping

I find that when my little one doesn’t settle I bring him into the bed and follow the guidelines like making sure there are no pillows, tucking the blankets in etc. if you have a next to me cot put that up against the bed, that way even if he rolls he won’t go anywhere as the cot will block it. That’s if my partner is in the bed, if he isn’t as working nights then I put him in his sleepsack and then put him in the middle of the bed, my boy can’t roll yet so ensuring there is enough space around him gives me peace of mind. Not sure if that makes sense or not haha

I’ve coslept a few times, usually when I’ve fed him on my side in the c curl around him. Same as Courtney said, I have his next to me against the bed. So if he did roll, he would only end up in his crib anyway. Safe sleep 7 says BF babies naturally gravitate towards your boob anyway, so they are unlikely to roll away/shuffle down or up x

@Kate the C curl gives security too, whenever I sleep it’s always with the C curl. Like you say they gravitate to the boob, even if I shuffle further away to give him some space I wake up and he is pressed up against my boob/ latches back on. He never shuffles away x

@Courtney when I learnt that they gravitate towards to the boob naturally it gave me peace of mind with when I choose to co-sleep! I’ve only started doing it a little more recently to get us through the regression. The first time was by accident as i fell asleep feeding and only woke up because he latched back on for another feed 😂x

@Kate yeah I was so against it until his sleep regression started now I actually look forward to when he comes into the bed in the early morning, just gives that little bit more sleep! In the early days I was so fearful but when you do it properly it can be such a peaceful thing, most accidents from co-sleep come from people not following the guidelines xx

@Courtney yes that makes perfect sense as my little boy can’t roll yet either and is exactly what I try to do! Just worried he will learn to roll magically in the middle of the night. I just can’t switch off to let myself go to sleep. Constantly worry something will happen and I won’t wake up to his cry!

@Kate aww that’s great! Unfortunately I don’t breast feed him so I can’t say he’d naturally gravitate towards me :( xx

@Courtney so true! Hence why I want to make sure I do it properly, wish I breastfed to have that extra peace of mind.

You’ll be amazed at how light you sleep, naturally I wake up around every 30 mins look down and check he is okay, that’s without even trying! Even at your most tired you’ll never switch off xx

Would you recommend using a bed guard? I can’t use his next to me because it isn’t safety strapped to my bed frame as when I lift the mattress up to get things out from underneath I have to really faff around with the straps. It was so much easier to not have it connected and just have the side of his crib zipped up like a cot.

We don’t Co-sleep, I don’t know if a bed guard would be recommended or not and we haven’t used them with our Dec 24 baby but we bought some blowup cot sides from Amazon for our older child, they go underneath the sheet to stop her rolling out of her bed. If you wanted a guard of some sort, these might be a good option because they’re under the bed sheet, so no chance of baby getting trapped / wedged between bed & guard x

I co sleep with my girl, they don’t recommend a bed guard incase baby gets trapped between mattress and the guard, if your worried and able to put a next to me or even their cot with the side removed up against the bed or move the bed up against a wall

@Mia that sounds like a better option! Thank you. Do you have a link by any chance? Xx

@Lorraine will do thank you for your help

https://amzn.eu/d/7STg0oJ These are the ones we’ve used with our older girl. She’s 2 and was able to move these slightly when she moved around in her sleep, which a baby is highly unlikely to be able to do. They never came out from under the sheet though. We have just bought some similar ones that are fabric and much much harder to move, I’ve linked these below. https://amzn.eu/d/hx6VMte X