We cosleep with ours - dd3 has been in with us since she was 2 months old. We have a bed for her in her own room and she starts the night in there but wakes up around the time we go to bed so she sleeps in bed next to me. However before we got her bed, she just took her naps in our bed.
I have had one of the other kids in a side car type thing with the cot, but that was broken when dd2 was 10 months old so put an end to that but it worked well.
At the moment we have dd2 and dd3 joining us in bed at night and ds and dd1 sleep on the floor near our bed on cot mattresses.
We sleep in a family room. I have my older two children in a double bed and DS2 is in his single bed right next to ours. He usually ends up in our bed, and occasionally one of the older kids do too, though that's getting less and less often.
I started a thread a little while ago about co sleeping/family bedroom here if you're interested.
We have used doonas too. I usually just dress the kids warmly when they're that little, and they sleep on top of the doona, at the head of the bed without a pillow.
We bedshare with DD3 - maybe three or four nights a week now but until recently it was every night. She sleeps between DH and I. We use a duck down doona (so warm, but light weight) and I pull my pillow right over so there's only half of it actually on the bed so its not a risk to her. She sleeps quite high up on the mattress and is on top of the doona most of the time, but sometimes will be under it with it pulled up to about waist height on her if its very cold. I slide right down and lie a bit sideways so I'm half encircling her which (A) stops DH going near her and (B) keeps the doona down.
I basically don't move when she's in bed with us, and she always snuggles into me so I'm always aware of where she is. For day sleeps she is in her cot in her own room.
Sometimes DD2 will sleep on a mattress on the floor next to my side of the bed, so I would think that could be an option for you when #2 comes along.
Cool. I just thought, if I sidecar the cot with the rail off, what on earth do I do for day sleeps?
Lulu that's reassuring and what we have been doing too. Thankfully DH is a light, still sleeper and is very aware of DS's presence. I was a bit freaked cause of all the "you're all gonna die!!!!" hoohaa surrounding cosleeping.
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