Cosleeping question

Genuine question, no judgement. Those of u that cosleep, do u not worry about ur lo crawling or rolling out of ur bed?
My son sleeps in his cot but he’s an early riser and sometimes I bring him onto my bed when he wakes at stupid o clock (he’s on top of the quilt in his sleeping bag suit) but I’m always so worried he’ll roll off and fall, that I can’t relax. One morning I did doze off and he slipped out of the side of the bed, I’d got things stacked up at the side so he didn’t fall to the floor or anything but it worried me, what if he got stuck or something and I didn’t wake up.
I hate being so tired that I’m not in control but neither my 1yo or my 2yo are sleeping well atm and I’m a single parent so it is just me all the time. I’m totally burnt out.

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Hey I moved my bed so it’s up against a wall and I put pillows there so there isn’t anyway my boy can fall out when I sleep in a different bed tho the anxiety of him falling out is awful I never sleep it’s really tough isn’t it x

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Same here, we take our LO into bed when he wakes early. Like Emma, I used a lot of cushions on the side of the bed which is open (not against a wall). Or I wrap my arm half around my LO so that I'll notice him moving. But generally, I tend to wake up when he wakes.

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We moved to a floor bed. If we are staying elsewhere then we move the bed to the wall when we can or mattress on the floor. Before the floor bed when she was less mobile we had the next to me on the bed so she couldn’t roll out

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I do the same

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