I have co-slept with all 5 of my children, but I will use my last bub as a reference for your questions as we still co-sleep with her.
- how old was baby when you started co-sleeping? - A few hours.
- 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? - DH has always slept in the bed with us.
- do you sleep on a normal bed or mattress on the floor like the guidelines say? - We sleep on a normal bed, sometimes DH & I are head to toe with one another for that little bit more space, especially if Dd2 jumps in with us.
- 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! - I sleep with bub on my arm, which means she can't roll out and I can't roll onto her without firstly getting a major pain in my arm & shoulder.
- what do you have in terms of pillows/sheets/blankets? I dress warmer and just throw a blanket over me. We have ducted heating here so we make sure it doesn't get too cold or hot.
- 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? - Dd3 hates being wrapped and has from the start. Even today she hates any blankets being on her.
- how and when did you transition baby back to their own bed? We now put DD3 in her cot to sleep, but she wakes up and comes in with us. We started to transition her by taking the side off her cot and pushing it against our bed.
- for daytime sleeps do you put baby in the bed or their own basinette/cot? She often just goes down in our bed now as she loves our boomerang pillows. When she was smaller, she would be placed in the centre of our bed.
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