Sleep safety

Honestly co sleeping is the only thing that helped mine - it’s still there but so much more manageable. I follow the safe sleep 7 for doing it from the Lullaby Trust. Also avoid as much as possible reading about it as it just makes the nights a lot worse as you start thinking about it when it’s quiet.

I have the owlet & it eased my anxiety. Shes 3 in dec & still wears it x

I didn’t over dress her I was so worried she would over heat. She does run warm and didn’t take to sleep bags or full sleepsuits she hated her feet covered. We co slept from 6 months and still are at 17 months and she used to wake every 2-3 hours so I knew she would wake us. But I was a nightmare when she was younger I would end up waking her up as I was trying to check her temperature and every night I would google what to put her in for sleep.

I did have an owlet but for me I would compulsively check it to the point where I wasn’t sleeping and I was staying up all night to watch it. I had to get rid of it. I haven’t found something else yet that works for me except that I got a good baby monitor.

That anxiety that keeps you checking, also helps to protect against sids. But as time goes by and you realize they are perfectly healthy and growing, and as the need for sleep catches up with you, the feeling will pass.

Understand too that sids is incredibly, vanishingly rare. Like obscurely rare. We hear a lot about it but it's highly, highly unlikely to happen.