Q for co-sleepers

[Shanti]

Miss H, Thats it! 2 doonas!

Thankyou all

That's a good idea!! I forgot to mention before.... with the doona thing... we'd push it all the way down so it was no where near DD but if DH got cold and brought it up onto himself in the night , mothers intuition would wake me and I would check on her make sure all was ok...and DH would also be aware of DD he got used to her being there and was very cautious... i don't think i ever really slept properly when she was in between us lol now she's in her own cot next to us with side down its MUCH better!!

[Arcadia]

dd is between us and I turn my pillow around and lie half on it on my tummy. It's how I like to sleep and then dd has lots more room. She still moves a lot and likes to bury her face in the pillows sometimes, but she is old enough to move and mothers intuition always wakes me through the night to check on her. I used to use a side car arrangement, but she outgrew the little cosleeper and the cot is literally enormous (it's on loan from a friend). Two blankets is a good idea. Dh and I dress warmly on top and keep the doona low. Hth

[Michelle71]

A king sized bed DD sleeps between our pillows but the king sized bed means there is basically a full pillow distance in the middle. We only use one doona but her head is up at the very top of the bed so she is barely covered from the waist down.

[Jennifer13]

I always held DD when we co-slept when she was little. Her face was always into my chest, so there was no risk of her being smothered by pillows and blankets. I would just roll her over with me when I needed to change sides. I sleep really deeply and so does DD. When she was a toddler I would occasionally wake up with a dead arm or sore neck, and from then on I would detach myself once she was sound asleep.

DD didn't co-sleep full-time as a baby, just part of each night. Some nights it would be the whole night, but when we got to the party stage at 14 mths it was either go to sleep or go back into your cot!