Co-sleeping

So those that do, how do you do it? Does your child share your bed, do they have their own next to yours? How do you get on with things like reading in bed, do you wake them up when you go to bed (by accident). How do you manage time alone with your partner and BDing?

I dont do it full time at the moment, but do sleep with DD after her last feed of the night in the king single in her room, as she tends to sleep later in the morning (bonus!) Im just wanting to know how it works for you and your partner TIA

We do day naps in our bed lately (bfing to sleep because she's just learned to crawl so self settling is out as she just rolls over gets on her hands and knees and crawls around and won't sleep!)

I do her first night sleep the same and then move her after an hour (without waking) to her own bed.

When we do co sleep (my dp is over weight) so it's dp on his half and I lay on my side with arm out above dds head and she is face/head level with my boobs (for easy feeding) and lays on her back (occasionally side). But she is always on the edge and I place my top arm over her to stop her falling out.

Of course it's much simpler when it's just me and her in bed (more space!)

BDing, we find time, often when she's not in with us, I normally bring her in if it's a bad night for her, or she's waking hourly...
I always move her after the first hour though (start of night sleep).

I always am very quiet so she never wakes.

I love cosleeping, she sleeps heaps better, wakes less (I think it's reassuring for her) and we both get sleep!
I was coslept until I was 6-7!

Lots of people say they'll have attachment issues, you'll never get them out of your bed etc but I think the complete opposite, I completely love my space and value it.

ETA: DD is also in a sleeping bag over the covers too!

We don't read in bed, never have.

We've also BD with a baby in the room lol quietly.

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DS sleeps in between me and DH, under the covers (since he's been out of his sleeping bag at about 14-15 months). I'd enjoy the co-sleeping more if he didn't still wake me constantly over night! But it makes dealing with the night wakings so much easier!
He has his naps in his own king single bed, hoping to move him there for night time after he turns 2.

BDing usually happens outside of the bedroom for us too, but have also occasionally done it quietly beside a sleeping baby!

Oh & bd-ing, much the same as everyone else, a lot of it happens outside the bedroom, but at times in same room as sleeping baby though I usually shift them into Bassinet which is next to bed as our bed is a bit too squeaky. No problems really overall with co-sleeping though DH complains we need a larger bed, =). Oh & I've used a safety-sleep before- tucked one side under mattress & slept on the other, when I was worried wriggly baby would fall out, but none of them ever have anyway.

We don't co-sleep; Jacob likes to be by himself when he's going to sleep (the last time we managed to rock him to sleep was when he was a teeny tiny newborn and all tired from being born). Also I think I like my space too much, and I'd be scared of squishing him.

BUT... the point of this post was to say that even though we don't co-sleep, I genuinely don't get those people who talk about attachment issues. I mean, babies all over the world have been sleeping with their parents for years (sometimes because there's only one bed!) and I don't notice half the population / the populations of certain countries having attachment issues.

Oh yeah, BD outside the bedroom here too and sometimes I prop Lily up on the pillow waste up too, esp if it's just her in the bed and place pillows around her body to stop her rolling out, but when it's just her in the bed I check her very regularly and listen over the monitor.

We've fulltime bed shared with DS since day dot. We've got the bed pushed up against the wall and he sleeps between me and the wall. when he was tiny I slept with my arm around him.   It's been fanatstic for us as if he'd been in his own room/bed I would've been awake from when he was born till about a month ago. Co sleeping rocks!
We also have DD in our bed, she goes down inher own bed then comes through if she wakes.

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This has a list of safe co-sleeping guidlines

Im the same as Sheza,although lately Ty has been waking around 4am every morning and im too tired to sit there trying to get him back to sleep so I just bring him in with me .
...Which brings me to my questions.....

when do you say you co sleep?if you do it occasionally,or if you sleep like that every night ?

and those that do,do you have a plan of when they will sleep in their own beds, by that I mean what age,or is it more of a go with the flow thing ? eg, you will just know when you are both ready

Awesome, thanks for the replies, Im thinking that I might start doing this as my DP has started a new job where he works away from home alot.

Oh and how do you have your baby sleep during the day in your bed? I have to have DD's legs wrapped and a tight sheet over the top otherwise she just plays with her feet and doesnt sleep (even in a sleeping bag), and there is no way I can get my bed sheets tight enough

And BD??? What's that?? lol