Safely Co-sleeping?

Question

Is there such a thing? NO JUDGING.
Long story short, we have been transitioning to the pack and play the last couple nights, well last night I woke up around 2am to check on LO and there she was choking, struggling to breath 😱. So needless to say, I'm backing off the pack and play for now and putting her back in her bassinet for now but thats not ideal because she can roll.
My family says just to co-sleep thats literally how they all have raised their kids. 
If you do co-sleep how do you do it?

Answer

I personally don’t bedshare until baby’s a bit older (with my first it was around 9 months), still I did a lot of research about bedsharing safely. 
The “rules” I’ve learned include:
- A firm mattress, with no blankets or pillows except a fitted sheet. 
- ideally the mattress should be on the floor and not against a wall. 
-anyone in the bed should be sober, a non-smoker, and not on any medication. Particularly deep sleepers are also discouraged from bedsharing 
-anyone in the bed should avoid loose clothing and tie back long hair
-bedsharing babies should be breastfed and if I remember quickly they should sleep next to mom only (not between mom and dad). Also mom should sleep on her side with an arm out so she’s less likely to roll. 
There were some other tips I think too, but a lot of it comes from the practices in Japan where bedsharing is very common and their infant death rates are extremely low, plus following as much of the American recommendations to reduce SIDS as possible.

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My baby is 2months 3weeks and I have used this to cosleep. I have a queen bed and it fit with me and my husband!(we do have to cuddle a bit more) but it help me sleep better knowing she was right there and I’m also breast feeding so it easy to pop her on and off the boob! 
P.s there is a lot of different kinds if you look up cosleepers I just used this one ❤️😁

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We only just got a cot at 3 months. We've been sleeping with the baby like in the picture but now she moves a lot in her sleep so we got her a cot which is still in our room

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I co sleep and i usually lay on my left side and have her right up against me with her arm out so she cant roll into me or i lay on my back with her layed up against my side. In the morning after she breastfeeds i lay down with my legs criss cross and she lays in my lap like that

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I co sleep with my little one (she’s almost 12 weeks now and is very little, she was 3 weeks early) and I put her diagonal on the inside of the bed, so her feet are closest to me and I sleep on the outside of the bed. We haven’t had any issues so far and I wake up every few hours to check on her, I feel and hear when she starts to get restless and she only wakes up once throughout the night. 🤞🏼

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I’ve been using the same style bassinet ! 
But thinking about getting something like this

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Lots of people will say that co-sleeping is awful...but it’s the norm in many other countries. 
We’ve been co-sleeping with a co-sleeper on our king bed, but my husband wants to transition her to her crib in her nursery when she turns 3 months. He’s scared that transitioning when she’s older will be harder on her 😞

Safely Co-sleeping?

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