This might be kind of a silly one but i never saw it exactly addressed.
The "guidelines" always seem to say sleeping with out blankets and pillows, worded in various ways, for safety. However i'm a little confused on that. I couldn't possibly sleep with out a pillow, maybe with out a blanket if we could get the climate in the room a little more comfortable, but our steam heat doesn't exactly regulate too nicely. So does that mean, literally nothing, just a mattress, or does that mean not an excess? Would a pillow per parent and 1 blanket be too much and potentially unsafe? or is that basically what most of you do?
Re: Co-Sleep Question!
I was very leery at first because out seemed so easy to me for me to pull down the edge of a pillow in my sleep and cover my sons face. Now that he is11 months I am much less careful...I use a pillow and pull a blanket up over both of us.
I have pretty severe fibromyalgia and thats why im concerned about the pillow, because as it is i have to sleep with a special pillow. A night without a pillow would lead to many days of pain so im not sure how useful of a mother i would be if I couldn't move. Even if I sleep on a normal pillow, it messes me up so much. Normally i mange that with medication, but i would not feel comfortable being on that medication while breast feeding, so i do need to weigh my options for sure.
I registered for a ''co-sleeper'' that sort of attaches to the bed kind of, i would think i would start with her in there and see what happens. But i really do forsee us ending up having her in the bed.
My husband was also a mover. I slept on my side with my body sorry of curled around my son, so if my h pulled up the blanket or adjusted his pillow I was there too intercept.
I agree with the pp, you start to sleep so lightly when you bedshare.
ETA I definitely used a light blanket after ds turned 4 months or so, pulled up to my waist. Just not a big comforter until much more recently about 9 mos.