Cosleeping questions

YellowLily2013

Does anyone cosleep on a memory foam bed? I love my bed but I feel like its harder to move around on than a normal bed.

Also, did anyone have an adjustment to not using blankets or just using them waist high. I'm a cover hog usually so this might be the reason we don't cosleep.

I'd love to hear about adjustments you had when you first started to cosleep.

jasherlove

We have a memory foam mattress and it's great because once he falls asleep I can usually get up and not disturb him.  Especially if I have to pee in the middle of the night.  Also, it's very supportive for him and he doesn't sink down in or anything. 
MH and I use separate blankets now because he likes to be covered head to toe and we used to play tug or war at night over covers and now we have a spot blanket free for LO. 
At first, I was so afraid of one of us hurting him, but neither of us move much while asleep and with him sleeping next to me, I'm so in tune with him that we both sleep better.  (He was a premie and did the "catch-up breathing" and it would scare the bejeezus out of me when I heard him in his pnp doing that, so we moved him to bed with us to keep an eye on him and it pretty much stopped.  I think he was able to listen to us breathing and it helped him to regulate his.)

youenjoymyself

Like PP said, I can move without disturbing her in the middle of the night with the memory foam. She just bounced around on the inner spring.

Right now, sleeping with a light blanket up to my waist is fine because it's 4000 degrees in GA. I'm interested to see how it'll be when it cools off a little, though.

The hardest part for me was getting used to sleeping in my side all night. For MH, it was getting used to hearing DD snort all night.

tcu_2003

No memory foam here, but it was an adjustment to only having a blanket around my waist.  It was a little tough in the winter (though I'm in Texas, so mild winters) since I usually sleep in a cami for easier nursing access.  If I got cold, I'd usually just make DH get up and turn the heat up.

For DH, the big adjustment has been getting used to having less room to sleep - baby is a bed hog now (not so much for the first few months, but now that he's older, he sometimes spreads out).

YellowLily2013

Thanks ladies. I'm glad to know you can make memory foam work!

JJ_13

For getting cold, I recommend taking an old long-sleeved t-shirt, cutting it down the middle, so it goes on more like a jacket. Easy access for nursing, but gives you arm, back and, when not nursing, front coverage.

mistd78

We bed share and the blanket up to the waist was an adjustment, mainly because I always had the sheet all the way up to my shoulders, but now I pull it up one side.  We do have a memory foam, and it offers a little more support when I need to move.  DD actually sleeps on my chest still (7 months) because of breathing issues on her back.  She will allow me to side nurse if she is already asleep.  DH's biggest adjustment has been lack of space, just because with DD on my chest, or across it, I use a small pillow to prop my elbow so I can hold DD comfortably and not have my arm fall down away from supporting her.  It works for us, my mother watches her during the day and is trying to transition her to her crib for naps, but DD is used to me holding her during the weekends for her naps, so grandma is having a bit more difficulty with that transition, LOL.  Memory foam can work great though...

JellyTwoPointO

What I do for blankets is that I sleep under the blanket and DS sleeps on top of the blanket. That way there's no way for the blanket to cover over him or anything. It has worked out really well so far.