Help!

We have a co sleeping, breastfeeding and heavily reliant on it (😬🙃) 11 month old, but I’m pregnant again!
Any advice from other co sleeping families on how to tackle a newborn and a toddler during the night? Not sure what to do!
Currently in a kingsize floor bed with a cot mattress at the side, and there’s me, baby and husband.

Is it time for toddler to go into her own room, and how do you do that if they rely on 3+ feeds a night
Could toddler go on husbands side?
Will newborn wake toddler?
Not sure what’s best for us

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Saving cause I’m about to board the same boat🥲I’m at a loss, here’s to hoping we both get some tips!

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i have a 3 year old and a 1 year old and we cosleep with both! what worked for us was having my older sleep on one side of dad and the other in between us and we still do it now and it works :) i would say try different ways but i also weaned my older off breastfeeding a couple months before my youngest was born

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Following this…I have a 16 month old who still feeds throughout the night. Have tried different cots and toddler bed but will only sleep next to me and still wakes every 3 hours

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I have a 2 year old and a 9 month old and I co sleep with both it just works for us. We have a floor bed and open cot next to the matress just see what works for you

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I could fit another cot mattress at the other side, so it would be cot mattress, kingside bed, cot mattress, all on floor bed bases, and it would be toddler, husband, me, newborn..
don’t want my toddler to be anywhere near my newborn as she bounces all over our bed now and she’s only 11 months

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Honestly I’d try to night wean toddler at the end of pregnancy. I am tandem feeding and can’t imagine doing both of them at night 😅

Our solution was to have my husband go cosleep with my daughter in her room once baby came and me and baby are in the main bed. Once baby is a bit older and it’s safer to cosleep together we will bring them all back to the fam bed lol

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