Cosleeping with 2 under 2. Possible?

[texmati]

DS will be 16 months when dd is born. I'm really hoping to bf and cosleep from the start, because it took me 4 mos to figure out how to do that with DS, and it was so much easier when I did!

Is there anyway to have them (and Dh) in bed with me? We have a king sized mattress-- I'm not so much worried about fitting than safety. any btdt advice?

[JorgieGirl]

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Edited by JorgieGirl - 6/24/11 at 7:26am

[CherryBombMama]

very possible!

we are getting our king bed soon, but right now i have a 2month old, a 19month old, myself and my dh in a queen!

the baby is on the edge (with a rail,) then its me, then my toddler, then my dh. when my dh leaves for work, he puts a body pillow in his place. we hardly ever wake any of the kids up when moving around. lately my toddler has been teething horribly so he wakes up me and my dh, but never the baby.

even when it is time to wake up, the toddler is usually up first and lays his head on my belly, quietly talking to me and the baby <3 (although he sometimes yells "Victor!Victor!" before the baby is ready to wake up, but it doesnt happen very often)

ETA: the boys are never in bed together by themselves. i have a PnP for the baby if he goes to sleep before i do. then i just bring him into the bed once i get to bed. and if i wake up before the kids, i move the baby over to the PnP

[Llyra]

I had three under three in my bed for a few months. It can be done-- but we sometimes had rough nights. We tried to be flexible-- we kept a mattress on the floor, and a crib sidecarred, so that everybody had options, so that if DH was uncomfortable, or DD1 was restless, or baby and I needed some space, there were other places to go in the room.

I didn't allow the babies and DD1 to sleep next to each other-- there had to be an adult between them. If they were sleeping without an adult, DD1 went in the sidecar, or the babies did.

[texmati]

Thank you so much for the advice! It' seems like common sense now you mention it, but we will need to tweak our current set up for times that an adult is not also sleeping.

We do have a unused crib and a queen mattress on the floor of our bedroom. We don't have a wall to shove the bed up against, but perhaps side carring the crib would be a good solution.

I need to put some thought into what can be done for naps/early bedtime. (we should be so lucky!)

[Katie T]

Yup! I put baby on the edge with a guard then me then ds then dh. It worked really well. I was shocked at how the toddler could sleep through the baby fussing during diaper changes in the night. Luckily with breast feeding there isn't much crying.