Is co- sleeping safe? 16 weeks🤰🏽

If your following safe sleep 7 then you should be OK but that’s not speaking from experience. Personally it’s not something I’d take a risk on as baby can sleep just fine in a next to bed cot, I’m pregnant with my second and I would never personally co sleep, I’ve heard too many awful stories

You can co sleep safely! I didn't with my first and I never planned to with my second but I'm exclusively breastfeeding and I found myself falling asleep for a few minutes with him in my arms during the many night feeds. So I decided to deliberately do it and make it safer so that's what we're doing now. I'm hoping to get him out of the bed again soon but the four month sleep regression is a bit rough at the moment. I'll add that we didn't do it from teeny newborn, only from where I was dangerously tired so maybe the last 6 weeks or so. He's also a giant baby if that makes a difference.

Try finding a cot that slides down so that it feels like you’re cosleeping

I'd say in most cases it is not safe. even if you are a light sleeper, affixation and suffocation is completely silent. i've heard way to many horror stories to even attempt this with mine so i'll be following the ABC rule : alone , on his back, in the crib.

We never coslept when she was a baby, I was too worried. We had a next to me cot that could change height so she was right next to me. I don't see why anyone would want to cosleep tbh, I'd never sleep again I'd be too worried!
She's slept in our bed once at 1yr+ because she was ill and not sleeping in her cot so I had her with me and she fell asleep, when my partner came up and we were going to sleep, I didn't have the heart to move her and potentially wake her so we had her between us... oh my life! Worst night sleep ever!! For both of us! She slept like a log 😅 She wriggles, kicks and stretches so much we were getting beat up all night lol! We both said never again!

Be safe and don’t co sleep.

My son is 11 months and we still co sleep but only problem is I can't get him to sleep alone in his crib he's super clingy to me

I basically started co sleeping with my LO since day 1 … he never really liked his cot and we spent almost a week in hospital nurses come in and wake us up all the time we only had each other … when we came home it was hard for him to accept sleeping alone so he used to sleep next to me I literally don’t move when I sleep so I knew he would be safe rather than putting him next to his dad who’s a heavy sleeper and moves a lot …. Now he will start his night sleeps in his bed but round 3/4 in the morning he’ll cry and move to our bed

I personally just would never risk it. With a next-to-me, they’re so close you don’t need to cosleep. If you’re concerned, just don’t do it.

Good luck with whatever you do choose though! Trust your instincts x

I’m currently bed sharing with my 10 week old, we have a super king bed. I put myself lower than my son, so my head is like at his shoulders/belly and have an arm around the bottom of him. It’s the only way we both get sleep comfortably. They advise against it but if you go on the lullaby trust they show you the safe ways to do it x

Never say never. That's when it's most dangerous as you fell asleep with baby too close to pillows or under a blanket. I never wanted to cosleep but here we are 8 months later and it's the only way she sleeps through the night. By educating yourself now when the sleep deprivation hits you'll know how to safely curl around your baby and how to keep bedding away.

I wouldn't bother if your partner was also in the bed. Safer when just Mum and baby xx

Safe sleep 7. and if your intuition still says it feels unsafe given your situation follow it 🙏🏻

If you cosleep by choice or accident please see lullaby trust website for safe cosleeping and don't let them sleep between you both. I coslept safely and was just naturally super vigilant.

We waited till our guy was 8 months before we co slept

Please don’t!! There are so many other completely safe options. Why risk it? I would never forgive myself if I made that choice and something happened

From a medical professional co-sleeping isn’t safe. Other people may tell you that they did it and it turned out fine but it is not best practice.