Sidecar crib help!

for anyone else that uses this set up. How do you feed them? My LO wakes up a lot so when we co slept I did a lot of switching over him. I’ve tried laying over him to give the top boob but it’s so cumbersome, I ended up just bringing him back into the bed

Also I don’t know if you can see it in the main pic (I’ll post in comments) but there’s a dip between the mattress’s and wondering if anyone knows if that’s ok? I’ve seen on cosleepy FB group people being very strict on no gaps whatsoever but the both mattresses have a rounded edge 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’ve basically being using my body on the join

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thank you x

It looks okay! I have heard to make it safer you can bungee cord under the crib to connect it to the mattress

We have the exact set up with the dip in the middle. I just lay her sideways with her knees/feet on the dip part and I just lay next to her with half my body on her crib and have on the bed when I have to feed her. And I can switch sides by laying on the left or right of her. It has been working out for us.

Hi - I’m actually looking to get a sidecar like this. Do you mind me asking what brand this is / where you got it from? Thanks!

i bought a crib that is capable of converting into a “toddler day bed” so it looks like a 3 sided crib like this- maybe that’s what Zoe did too :)

we have secured it with cable ties

aw why didn’t I think of that. Genius! Although my LO likes to have his arms straight out so no doubt I’d end up with my head pushed into the bars 😂🙈

so it’s just ikea. I can’t remember the name of it but just the basic one. My partner took the side off and added a piece of wood under the overlap to make it more secure. I didn’t see people say you have to do that but we we felt it made it far more secure than part of the mattress having nothing underneath.

I’ll take a pic to show you what I mean when I don’t have a baby sleeping on me 😂

we have been cosleeping in bed pretty for 6 months. I do love it (sometimes) but we want to try this in the hopes of getting dad back in the bed but might be it doesn’t work and we have to switch back

no we just followed the advice on happycosleep to convert an ordinary cot

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