I know a couple a weeks ago I asked about this. Now I have a specific question lol. We have a cosleeper and we are using that but last night after getting up ten times I decided to try to nurse him laying in bed and he actually did very well. Right now dh is in ds room...so it's just my two year old, the baby, and me. We have our bed pushed up against a wall and ds1 sleeps on that side, but does move. I am afraid if I have the baby on that side of me ds1 would roll over on him. The other side is the edge of the bed.....maybe I'll have to invest in a bed rail or use the one from ds1 bed. I was just trying to figure out the safest way to arrange us. I was thinking of maybe trying to put a body pillow on the side of ds1 so he wouldn't roll over it.
Any advice?? When will he be old enough I won't have to worry so much about his big brother rolling on him??
RockinClothBunz
10-31-2007, 06:33 PM
We have a bed rail on our bed.
bellamama
10-31-2007, 06:46 PM
I can not trust my husband to sleep next to mia. its not a problem though, he works nights so we rarely have to worry about it. On the occasion that he is, mia always sleeps on the outside.
xois
10-31-2007, 07:36 PM
what about one of those mat/roll combos?
mom2brooke
11-01-2007, 02:05 PM
Do you have a crib? We have our crib, with one side off, right against the bed, so it's like a co-sleeper, only bigger. I love it. I was lucky and it's almost exactly as high as the bed, but you could drill new holes to put the mattress higher or lower.
mom2rays
11-01-2007, 02:17 PM
We used a bedrail. I put my body pillow inside it and draped a sheet over it all to eliminate cracks for ds to become entrapped in. Ds' slept between the rail setup and me and dh on the other side. When both ds' in the bed at the same time they were always separated by an adult body or sometimes two, though we transitioned ds#1 to his own bed at 16 mos. for the most part right after ds#2 was born.
KaiyaSue
11-01-2007, 04:29 PM
One of the "rules" for safe cosleeping is that mom only is next to baby. A sibling or even a father can roll over on them because they are not as aware of baby as mom is. I'd get a bedrail if it was me. :2cents:
mengmommy
11-01-2007, 07:49 PM
Ds is in a side-carred crib, then dd, then me, then dh. Dd is almost 15 months old now, and I didn't switch her to that side until close to a year. Before that she slept between dh and I. We did have to use the side of the crib that we took off (well, actually, we never assembled it until we hooked it to our bed), and put that all the way down on the floor between ds and dd (with pillows to keep it from tilting) to keep them from rolling onto each other.
blissful_maia
11-01-2007, 09:54 PM
I would get a bed rail, or put the baby on the edge of the bed next to the co-sleeper (so that if he rolls, it's into there). Seems safer than your toddler being on the edge, or next to the babe.
My girls are 1 and 3.5 and they sleep soundly next to eachother. Not sure when that started happening though, it was a gradual thing... :goodvibes:
mama2iliana
11-01-2007, 09:57 PM
Do you have a crib? We have our crib, with one side off, right against the bed, so it's like a co-sleeper, only bigger. I love it. I was lucky and it's almost exactly as high as the bed, but you could drill new holes to put the mattress higher or lower.
This is what we do too. It is a convertable crib so it is sturdy even without one side. I used huge clamps and clamped the crib frame to the bed frame so they don't slide apart.
jazzpurr88
11-01-2007, 09:58 PM
my 4 year old sleeps on the outside with a bed rail, then me then 4 week old on the wall side.
