how do you co-sleep w/a squirmy and active child?

roaringrock · August 2009

dd always used to come into bed with me around 4 am and we would sleep/cuddle until 7 am. she'll be one at the end of the month and she's very mobile in her sleep. I'm terrified of bringing her into bed with me now simply because I'm afraid she'll fall out. how do you guys with older babies co-sleep without worrying?

lanie26 · August 2009

Good question. Jo sleeps with us lately because she's having some sort of night issues, especially at the cottage. But I'm so desperately tired as a result of being kicked, punched and crawled all over during the night. I watched her toss for over an hour into the weirdest positions.

I know she's sleeping. I'm just not. I think I need to start wearing a helmet to bed.

jen_and_tom · August 2009

We have our bed pushed against the wall with pillows filling the gap. She either sleeps against the wall or between dh and I. She isn't terriibly active in her sleep though... We also taught her how to crawl out of bed feet first. When she's in bed on her own taking a nap or sleeping in past me, I usually put a pillow close to her so if she rolls, she'll wake up before falling out of bed and if she wants to get up she can scoot around it and out of bed on her own.

Dobie_Mama · August 2009

Point her feet toward DH and hope for the best? Just kidding ... sorta.

We have bed rails on the side of our bed not against the wall, so I don't really worry about DD falling out. I guess she could fall off the end of the bed but I've never really found her down there, so I don't worry about that much. I find the higher up in the bed I place her the less she moves. If I put her on top of the covers by our middles she'll stretch across the two of us, flip upside down, etc. But, if I can start her night with her more towards our heads we're generally OK.

otc · August 2009

King size bed if you have it, on the floor. I have a full on the floor and it works for us. You get used to it.

ncbelle · August 2009

Kiddo doesn't move a ton - yet anyway - if he is sleeping right beside me. I have bedrails up but I'm not sure how I feel about that solution since he can easily pull up on them and flip right on out. Fortunately, I've never slept through him waking up and moving around - I guess because I've always slept with him so I'm very in tune with his movements.

Yeah, that was pretty much a non-answer ;-)

MAprincess · August 2009

He has never fallen out of bed (sleeps between us), but he does kick, hit, roll in his sleep. I have just gotten used to it (read: gotten used to the lack of sleep!) He also knows how to get out of bed on his own if he wakes up, but I have never slept through him waking up.

chickenlittle-08 · August 2009

i sleep on an air mattress on dd's floor in her room. she sleeps in her crib until about 3 or 4 and then she comes in bed with me. the mattress is literally 6 inches off of the floor, but once she did fall off. i must have been very tired because i am usually a very light sleeper. all of a sudden i heard "ehh...ehhhh....EHHHH" as she was struggling to crawl back up onto the mattress. she was fine, but it was hilarious.

she is a very restless sleeper. honestly, the best way we both sleep is with her on my chest

angluvsammon · August 2009

We have king sized mattress on the floor. Now that DS is older, we have a toddler mattress pushed up to the side and he sleeps there part of the night and then crawls into bed with us later on. We started with a full size on a bed frame and within a month of co-sleeping we went out and bought the king size, best purchase every. We will have room for the new baby, even if DS is still sleeping with us.

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