I am just wondering exactly WHERE bubs is in relation to you when you sleep.
We dont co-sleep (I gave it a go when bubs was born but I was so worried about one of us rolling on him, I got NO sleep LOL)
Anyhoo, when he had a temp 2 weeks ago, I was getting up and checking him every hour and eventually put him in with us where I got marginally more sleep than I had been.
Now he has a green snotty nose and last night he was upset, so I bought him in with us.
BUT, here is my dilemma.
I put his head and shoulders between our pillows, which are half shoved off either side of our bed (so if you lift your head up, the pillow falls on the floor ) because If I put him any lower, then the doona would be over his face and if Adam rolled over onto him, it would be on his face KWIM?
But bubs still manages to get his face jammed into the ends of our pillows when he rolls over. So I am constantly checking him, in fact I am not really sleeping at all, just dozing all night.
How do you do it so bubs is safe?
In his cot, he has a sheet and his bear, nothing else, no bumpers or padding. He just sleeps in a bag. He also moves around heaps, like does 360's all night.
Tell me your secret....
when I cosleep with fred, I normally kick DH out now cause we need more room. I put his pillow on the other side of her and sleep with my hand on her chest. That way she gets the comfort from me and I sleep more soundly cause I know where she is.
However if I bring her to bed at about 5 am cause she wants to party I just lie her next to me in the crook of my arm with her head on my shoulder, I don't get too much sleep but I do doze a bit and DH doesn't get kicked out.
Yep, I'd get DH to sleep somewhere else, especially if it's only a temporary thing.
With just the two of you there'll probably be room for him well clear of the blankets & pillows.
When we tried it when DS was very little, I slept with a jumper on and pushed the blankets down. We didn't do it much till he was 8 months or so, and by then he could move around and push himself out of the way of pillows etc, so I could relax more and actually slept. It sure beats getting up every half hour.
LOL, kick DP out of the bed. I wish.
He would make US sleep on the floor before he got out
Nah, he is pretty good, but he LOVES his bed.
The problem I have, is that if I try to keep bubs from moving, he wakes up, andwhen he realises he is in with us, he decides it is time to play, and then we are all bloody awake.
I was just wondering if there was a position you put them in where they could do thier thing and I wouldnt have to worry.
Have got the vapouriser going in his room tonight, maybe that will help him sleep better.
Had green snot all over my sheets this morning, eeewwwww
When DH slept with us (before we kicked him out!) we would use two single blankets instead of one big one. So bubs wouldn't get caught underneath the blanket. Get another bed for DH so he doesn't have to sleep somewhere uncomfortable.
I don't have to kick my DH out!!
When we have co-slept I have put bubs between us, between our pillows or I sleep on my side facing her with my bottom arm stretched out, her head either on or just under my arm. Her feet then rest on my legs (which are curled up so I'm in a "C" shape) and that way she's secure and I can't roll on her!
Its not such an issue now she's bigger though.
HTH!
We have been co-sleeping since DD was 9mths old and started hating her cot! In order to get some sleep rather than being a zombie up every 1-2hrs we decided to co-sleep full time after doing it here and there some nights. So she was in our bed in the middle of us but as she grew bigger and longer she now takes up waaaay too much room and was kicking us in the head etc!! All night....
A week ago we decided to move her into her cot (hoping to gradually get her in her own cot full time and then out of our room in her own room ...gradual process... probly take mths.. altho we joke she probably will still be in our room when she's 12 )
Anyway she now is in her own cot...pushed up against our bed with cot side off one one side and her mattress level with our mattress. It's been great!! I can BF her and she just rolls back over her side and goes back to sleep.... (most of the time). She's a frequent waker so we had no choice but to do this for our survival and now we have our bed back!!!!! And more space and I can finally sleep next to DH! haha
As they get bigger it gets easier. We were always scared of rolling on DD in the early mths we too hardly slept with her it was way too scary. And I found it so uncomfortable sleeping with my arm out facing her etc... it was limiting to a good nights sleep. So ikwym... but now that your little guy is 11mths.... he'll tell you if you are squashing him
I don't think my Dh would take too kindly to being asked to leave the bed, either
Depending on the time of night (or morning) I either put her on my side, in the crook of my arm like Ryatha, or between us with the doona pushed way down or all the doona on DH. I have her level roughly with my armpit so the pillow thing isn't such an issue.
It is hard though & one of the reasons we don't do it every night, I don't sleep as well because I am so aware of her.
If I had another bed for DH I would do it much more
Miss H, Thats it! 2 doonas!
Sweet, that will work then I can put him a bit lower, I dont think adam will roll on him, and Lachy could prob move around a bit more too.
Hope fully , he will be ok in his room, but am pretty sure that at some point in the future he will be back...
Thankyou all
I try to avoid sleeping bub in between DH and I because I know he's a deep sleeper and, although I am as well, 'mother's intuition' gives me the ability to not squash poor DD in my sleep. I sleep on my side or on my back, and I rest DD's head on my upper arm (it's always out to the side, bent at the elbow) and if I'm on my back, I bend my forearm down so that it's cradling her against me, if I'm on my side my forearm is up and my other arm cradles her so she doesn't roll away. DD sleeps on her side either snuggled against me, or in a spooning position.
HTH
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) because If I put him any lower, then the doona would be over his face and if Adam rolled over onto him, it would be on his face KWIM?
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we decided to co-sleep full time after doing it here and there some nights. So she was in our bed in the middle of us but as she grew bigger and longer she now takes up waaaay too much room and was kicking us in the head etc!! All night.... 
and now we have our bed back!!!!! And more space and I can finally sleep next to DH! haha
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