Co sleeping - toddler and newborn??

[jembelina]

We co slept with ds until he was about 6 months old and intend to co sleep with #2 for as long as we are all happy and comfortable with it. DS still comes into out bed sometimes and quite often in the early hours of the morning and drifts back of for an hour or so or sometimes jsut for a cuddle before we get up. When ds comes in he usually wants to have close cuddles with me. We only have a double bed and this can be a bit squishy. I am wondering how we manage this when we have a newborn in the bed as well??? I am concerned he might accidently squash or hurt the new bub...........how do I keep them seperate, but give them both cuddles?????
I am trying to imagine it all in my head and I am feeling a bit confused! Any help would be great!

[HoopDeeDoo]

I'm about to experience the same thing. Noah doesn't come into bed with us often, but he's been having nightmares lately that require I bit of cuddles, and sleeping in our bed. I'm thinking that if it happens I'll just have to leave one with daddy, while I sleep with the other somewhere else. Otherwise I have a safe and sound little bed thing that goes in our bed to keep the newborn safe, when Noah is in a single bed I'll be able to put the baby on the floor next to his bed or our bed and be able to give Noah the extra attension he needs.
I guess it'll be a bit of trial and error. I wouldn't feel comfortable having them both in our bed at the same time unless they were seperated somehow, just in case.

[youngbrismum]

Hi Jem,

We still co-sleep with our 17 month old and are planning another bub and I was thinking of having four in the bed. What we do at the moment is we have Samarra's single bed jammed against ours so there is plenty of room. If you can afford to buy a single bed I would do that as that will give you plenty of room for the whole family.

Good luck!

Brooke:p

[jembelina]

I have thought about that, but our room isn't really big enough and he is in his own bed more often than he is in ours so not really worth it.

[kymmy]

when our girl was 2
we put her bed next to ours
now we have a queen size bed
which i don't sleep in!
hubby sleeps there
kids choose where they sleep each night
i sleep with bf 6 month old
in his room on king single bed

works for us....

[tickle]

We have the babies cot up against our bed with one side taken off. I have a snuggle bed in that and it works out very, very well. Just like a little bed extension. Because we are using the snuggle bed I can fit all the things I need at the end of the cot (bfing pillow, spew rags etc etc).
I was a little worried my DS would be a bit put out by it all but he's fine with it. He is just like yours and comes into our bed in the mornings sometimes.:)

[LillynJonson]

We have 4 in our queen size bed so as you can imagine it gets a bit squishy :eek: DD (2) has her own bed in another room but usually crawls into our bed in the early hours of the morning. Because DS is so young (5 months) we have to seprate them so the bed situation goes DD DH Me DS. I think this arrangement is the safest for DS although there's the risk of him rolling off the edge of the bed so I usually prop a pillow between him and the bed side table. Some mornings I wake up so sore from sleeping in sich a restricted position and I do miss being able to :hugs: DH but waking up to their happy smily faces makes it all worth it :D.

[bubbabelly]

I am so glad to read you are having the same problem!

My son is 12 months and old and will not sleep with out me and i am currently 6 weeks pregnant.

Luckily though i am single and have the room for 2 babies.

I intend to let both the babies stay in bed with me for as long as they want/need.

I am just going to put them on different sides and buy one of those rails that attatch to the side of the bed so no one falls out :)