Just wanted to know I wasn't the only co-sleeper :)

[TeniBear]

I'm a bit tired at the moment, so I can't get to all your points but I will assure you that you're definitely not alone in cosleeping/bedsharing

You'll find a great deal of us in BB land are bedsharers, even more stick to the "proper" definition of co-sleeping (sleeping with bub in the same room but not necessarily in the same bed) and pretty much everyone has fallen asleep near their child at some point

[njon2]

I've been sleeping with my daughter since she was 6 weeks. She's almost 8 months now and we are slowly getting her used to her cot which is at the end of our bed.
I love cosleeping, I only wish she wouldn't wake so often for feeds as I am hoping to have her weaned of her night boob by 12 months.... This probably won't happen though :-)

[Lisa]

I have co slept with all of my kids. At the moment I am bed sharing with DS2, DD2 & DD3 - DH is away for work until Friday.

Because we have so many in the bed sometimes we took the side of the cot and put it against our bed. TBH, DD3 doesn't sleep in it. She sleeps in my arms but DD2 does sleep in it when she is in with us and I sometimes end up half in there.

The other way we made it work was to sleep head to toe with each other. It doesn't work for everyone but it certainly has for us.

I love sleeping with my babies and I am secretly wishing for DD3 to get the independence that DD2 got and will start wanting to sleep in the cot with the side on and away from our bed.

[Loveinamist]

not alone! DS sleeps in our bed or with me in his big boy bed when I want a bit more room! We have done so since he was 3 days old. I spent the 3 days before that sleeping sitting up, terrified, with him happily on my chest. Then a friend told me how to sleep safely with him in our bed and then the LC taught me how to breastfeed lying down (when he was a little older) and we have never looked back! He now sleeps through but even when he did wake every couple of hours, I barely felt it as I didn't have to get out of bed or even really sit up.

[~clover~]

I have DS & DD3 in my bed. I've started attempting the bed & cot, but I'm thinking they'd be better off in a double bed together

[[M]umma[M]ia]

DD1 was in our bed until 6 months and then in a cot right next to our bed until she was 18 months. DD2 was in our bed until about 4 months and is now in a cot next to our bed. I would have kept bed sharing with her but I was tossing and turning all night and waking her up.