Just thinking ahead as we are planning for a 2nd child, my son is 1 and we have introduced a floor bed in his own room which he goes down in really well at bedtime but either I end up in his bed/he ends up back in ours during the nighttime. We’re still breastfeeding and I tend to breastfeed to sleep in the nighttime as it requires zero energy 😂 (anything for a good nights sleep!), but if I did fall pregnant I’m just unsure of how I’d co-sleep with a bump as he sometimes kicks me when he feeds and sleeps. Just curious to know how others have approach this?
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I don’t have experience with this but I do know that unless he kicks you hard enough for it to hurt I think that the fetus will be fine with some little kicks from the outside, I read that most of the time if you bump your pregnant belly it’s normally fine unless it was with a very large amount of pressure like in a car accident or if you fell kinda thing.. your body is pretty good at keeping baby safe and protected.

thank you xxx

Curious about this too! My LO leaves bruises all over me😅

I coslept a lot whilst pregnant, I just kept reminding him when we were settling to sleep to be careful of baby, and point to tummy, as he tends to climb over me when he was waking up or whatever. He became very aware of my belly, and was very careful. Occasionally I got a little kick accidentally but nothing bad at all. We co slept quite well virtually the whole pregnancy, although I did try and get him sleeping with dad more, as I needed a little space. Worked sometimes haha.
Just as a forewarning, I wanted to continue breastfeeding but found it incredibly hard with how painful breastfeeding became when I was pregnant. So try and have another way to settle your first as well as breastfeeding so the transition isn’t as hard if you do have to stop.

thank you, really helpful xx