Hoobley, Rosehip Fairy, MummaB - Thanks for the no yelling reassurance.. I sleep with DD on my belly, laying on her belly but as MummaB said she has also done it.

All references to co-sleeping I've read relate to baby sleeping beside their mums or in a co-sleeping bed and not in actual full contact like I've been doing.

I have also slept with DD on the lounge. We have huge, very firm pillows on our lounge so I remove the one near my head so i can lie flat, DD goes on her belly on my belly, I usually wear long PJ's and my dressing gown for warmth but then wrap a quilt around the middle to lower part of my body, so it just covers DD legs and then I wedge each side of the quilt under my body so it's like a big present being wrapped up. That way bubba can't slide anywhere. I then wedge the second lounge pillow under my arm for support but then my arm is over the pillow so she can't slide down beside me and the pillow. I have found and much to my surprise that I don't move an inch when i sleep with her. I stay in the same exact position, which results in a dead arm in the morning but I don't mind. When we sleep in the bed, I either do a similar thing and wrap us together (DH doesn't really like her being in the middle - so again she sleeps on her belly on my chest) and then when DH goes to work I slide her over to the middle of the bed and I leave my arm under her neck and then wrap my legs up under her bum so I kinda surround her. Either way she sleeps really well. I only co-sleep either when she is unsettled or if she wakes really early and is cold or just wants comfort.

I didn't want to get yelled at for 1) sleeping her on her belly and sleeping her on top of me and 2) for sleeping on the lounge.. I can understand the lounge thing for some lounges which are very soft and cushiony but ours isn't so I'm not concerned and when she does move or slide I wake straight up anyway.

Devon - I hope this is giving you some ideas on what you might want to do when your bubba arrives. I was not really considering co-sleeping while I was PG as I was afraid I'd squish a baby but it happened our of shear desperation in the first week we were home where she just didn't want to be alone and would only sleep on me, so i resorted to sitting on the lounge watching movies with her. Meantime I felt asleep and that is how I found that I didn't move so I just made it an easier way by tucking quilts etc.

I've been reading a book called Your Baby Week by Week by Simone Cave and Dr Caroline Fertleman (which in itself is a great book which I've found very useful) but it also talks about co-sleeping and sleep training at each week and stage of babies life. It does talk about co-sleeping and it's the only book I've found to mention sleeping with bubba on your belly.. It does say "Don't let your baby sleep on his tummy, although sleeping on your chest is okay as babies have been shown to mimic their mothers' breathing thus reducing their cot death risk."