Hi All! I have always been a really 'active' sleeper (much to DH's annoyance). I often roll, kick, giggle and talk in my sleep. Apparently though, when Hannah is in the bed with us I don't do any of these things and remain cuddled up to her and still. Good ol' maternal instinct huh?! Hannah usually starts the night off in her own cot beside our bed, but by about 4am she's in with us. That allows me to have some space to settle off to sleep myself at the beginning ofthe night, and it's easy at 4am to bring her into the bed and snuggle up beside her and go straight back to sleep. She sleeps in between DH and I (I always wake him to tell him when she is there, so we are both aware). We have a king size bed, so there isn't a space problem, and we have a gap between our pillows and she usually sleeps up there so she's not covered by any of our blankets (she's in her own grobag now, but we used to just wrap her up in her own blanket.

Re: the issue of previous smoking history - I'm sure that wouldn't be right... perhaps what she was trying to say was that if one or both parents smoke, it doesn't matter even if they don't smoke in the house/room/around the baby - if they ever smoke at all it is a SIDS risk to co-sleep iykwim? My DH used to smoke, but gave up 18 months prior to TTC and all the advice we've been given is that there is no risk now...