Guideance on cosleeping..

I’ve recently started cosleeping with my 17 month old but I can’t find any safe sleep guideance on cosleeping at this age? Does anyone know a reliable source to find this?
I follow a cosleeping page on insta but again it all seems to be focused around smaller babies

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It’s all very similar really except for you don’t need to sleep in the cuddle curl as aggressively as with a very small baby.

We taught my son from crawling how to get on and off the bed safely if he wanted to get down.

We’ve been co-sleeping for 3 years so if you have any specific questions happy to help 😊

I was just thinking about this (but for my baby when she’s 1year old)!
I want to visit family in Japan and will likely co-sleep with her but I don’t get how I’m meant to do that when we go to bed at different times.. how do I not wake the baby? She’s 8mo atm

Floor bed to minimise fall risk. Your position can change you don't need to stay in the cuddle curl. And they can have a toddler pillow or blanket but yours should still be away from them. They can also lie on you/your arm/whatever position they get themselves in rather than being flat on the mattress.

We co sleep since he wakes up at 6 am (3m) I use my pregnancy pillow still to help me not move. We also traveled for a wedding and left him on the bed to hang out in the room since it was early and as soon as we went to bed he started to wake up so I just bf him to soothe him back to sleep

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