Co-sleep with back pain or be sleep deprived from sleeping her in the cot??

[HotI]

Can you put the cot in your room as a side cart to your bed? you may be able to feed bub laying down, with her in the cot, and then move away into your space.

The no cry sleep solution has some ideas for stopping the all night sucking, i didn't try them til my DD was older, but worth trying.

[onthefly]

any luck? sounds like a pretty sucky situation. I found osteo really helped my neck pain - largely caused by weird sleeping positions. i can move away from dd, but end up falling asleep up next to her very often. reminds me I need to go again.

[Kmn]

Can you try sharing a big mattress on the floor with bub - that way there is more room for you.

[willow5]

Can you put the cot in your room as a side cart to your bed? you may be able to feed bub laying down, with her in the cot, and then move away into your space.

I did this for a while, but DS was too much of a restless sleeper and would wake more often when he'd bang himself on the cot.

Can you try sharing a big mattress on the floor with bub - that way there is more room for you.

This is what I ended up doing and it worked the best. DS couldn't fall out of bed, well he could but it wouldn't hurt him. DS and I moved into his room with 2 single mattresses on the floor. I still had some back pain but not as bad as 3 in the bed. We've just recently moved a double bed in. The gap in the mattresses if they came apart a bit was making me sleep funny too and getting sore.

I still get a bit of a sore back sometimes but not as bad or as often as before.