Cosleeping & the art of the boob switch...enlighten me! - Page 2

[Tattooed Hand]

I am new to this, but what I have been doing is nursing her on one side, sitting up to burp her (because if I don't she either cries or pukes) and then lay her down on the other side and stick the other boob in her mouth. She doesn't take much from it, but drifts off to sleep, so it's the one we start with when she wakes up the next time.

Mine wakes up if you drag her across the bed on a receiving blanket... the roll idea is good too.

[spirit4ever]

Originally Posted by finnegansmom

I always roll over with the baby on top of me, and I always sleep on my side facing my side facing the baby.

that's us too, although I must admit After 3 kids and dd being almost 18 months I'm not so gentle in my switch over ! I also have had my bed many different ways!! Dc1 was mattress on the floor, dc2 we used bed rails on both sides of the bed (I think they were by safety 1st) and dc3 we now have our bed pushed right against the wall and dd's crib sidecarred on the other side!!

[OperaDiva]

I never thought I'd be so thankful for my 32G boobies, but the top boob feeding is a piece of cake for me! I do lay about halfway between side and tummy when I top feed though. The towel/receiving blanket switch sounds like a good idea though.

[Kivgaen]

Originally Posted by pangirl

My baby is 5 months old. Since birth, she feeds at night every 1-2 hours and sometimes more. I loathe the idea of having to sit up to nurse that many times. So many couples bedshare, and nurse... I am missing something, right?

Some mamas are going to probably flame me for this... but oh well -- Call me a bad mama if it makes you feel better:

I stacked up a bunch of pillows/blankets, etc., on the floor next to my side of the bed, and I just flipped DS over to the outer side.

In the 2 years that DS slept beside me, I think he only fell out of the bed once... maybe twice. He wasn't hurt at all... If I recall correctly, I don't even think he woke up. Our bed is on a bedframe, has a box-spring and a thick mattress, so it was about 3 feet up).

Ideally, you could get a rail to install on your side of the bed so that the above never happens. (I could never find one tall enough to fit our King-sized mattress properly).

But honestly, you are so aware of where your baby is that it really isn't that much of a problem. Eventually as time went on, I only ever fed them from the side in the center. I was probably a bit lopsided by then, but do you think I really noticed and/or cared about that???

[mambera]

Top boober here. I am a 36C/D. We couldn't do this until LO was about 6 months old though.

[AJ's mommy]

With DS1 sliding him over would work great because even if he would wake up I would gave him the other breast and he would fall asleep instantly. With DS2 (12 weeks) I'm having some problems nursing in bed... He nurses fine but as soon as he's done he wakes up and stays up for an hour everytime. I tried giving him the other breast, burping him (right after birth until about 8-9 weeks I had no choice to burp him cause he would screaming with pain, now it's way better), signing, etc... Nothing works. And you can see he's really tired but just doesn't want to sleep and cries. A lot of the times I have to pick him up and go rock him to sleep! I'll give the top boob a try again... It hasn't worked yet!

[Babina's Mommy]

I do the sliding thing...I usually put baby on a blanket that's spread out on the bed to sleep because of all the spitting up and explosive poops that happen in the early days. If I need to change sides I slide the blanket and baby to my other side. I also do the thing where I go on the other side of baby or I lift baby over to my other side. I switched up what I did for each child and which stage of development we were at...

[lonegirl]

I always kept Tyr on the outside of the bed when he was tiny (DH paranoid of him being squished in the middle) I literally switched Tyr and I upside down

[_betsy_]

We're art time bed-sharers here, but I just hug baby to me and roll over. I don't worry about her being on the outside of the bed. She's big enough now (1 yo) to slide down off the bed on her belly or her back but has never done it in the middle of the night. When she's in bed with us, it's because she NEEDS and WANTS to be there, so she's cuddled right up close and I can't get away from her at all (believe me, I've tried! She scooches right on over to me as I'm trying to scooch away!)

[~Kristina~]

Originally Posted by Whistler

This is what I did. I just leaned over a little farther and rolled the baby a little more onto his back and gave the top one. It wasn't hard.

Same here.