- how old was baby when you started co-sleeping?

A couple of hours old Unless you count me drifting off in the delivery room while she had her first feed

- did your DH/DP sleep in the bed as well, and if not was he okay about being bumped out or did it affect your relationship?

Yep, we all sleep together.

- do you sleep on a normal bed or mattress on the floor like the guidelines say?

We slept in a normal bed until we moved this year (when Amelia was 14m), now we're on a mattress. That was more of a "I don't like our bed frame" thing though.

- do I really have to sleep with baby on the outside (instead of between DH and I)? I'm scared she'll fall off the bed!

We swap depending on which side I'm feeding her on. Once she was rolling, I put a barrier thing up to stop her falling out. We eventually put her cot next to the bed with one side taken off.

- what do you have in terms of pillows/sheets/blankets? The guidelines say to only sleep with a light blanket but it's winter, I'll freeze without my sheet and doona!

I'm bad here. I break the rules. We've slept with a doona over us from the start. I think I had DD under her own blanket for a little while, but it wouldn't have been for long. I just make sure she and I are higher on the bed than DH so it comes up to her chin/my chest.

- do I still wrap baby up? And if you monitor room temperature (we have a little gro egg to tell us the temp) what should it be ideally?

I've never had to deal with either of these. She's never been wrapped, and I just go by how hot/cold I am.

- how and when did you transition baby back to their own bed?

Haven't done this yet.

- for daytime sleeps do you put baby in the bed or their own basinette/cot?

I've just started occasionally putting her in a toddler bed for day/evening sleeps, but I still lay down with her until she drifts off.


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