How's your family bed set up?

[Amanda_Reyasmom]

Does everyone cram into the same bed or do you have an extra mattress next to mom and dad's? Can that work? Right now DD is tiny enough to share our bed, but as she gets bigger I was thinking about putting a twin next to our bed and bypassing the toddler bed to try and transition her to her own space.  Umm maybe this is a little premature, but inquiring minds want to know!

[Adaline'sMama]

We have a twin mattress perpindicular to the head of our mattress, so that I can move over and nurse her. Its technically "her"bed, and I try to sleep with DH as much as possible. After 6 months of DH moving to the couch in the middle of the night because me and DD were taking up too much room on the queen bed, we decided to do this.

[Prairiemother]

Our "family" bed is just me and the 2.5-year-old, in his room for now.  a twin bed.  yikes!  With our two older children we moved them into their rooms quite early and then i slept with them on a double mattress on the floor.  But now we're down to one tiny kids room left, only big enough for a twin.  I'd rather have a bigger bed but I don't want to share with dh as well - three sounds like a crowd to me!  Eventually the plan is for me to get up and leave once ds falls asleep but since I keep falling asleep with him that never happens!

[omamasmama]

me, the hubs, and our 22 month old sleep on a queen size futon mattress. our house is incredibly tiny and our bedroom is just that, a room for the bed...nothing else can fit in there. i wish we had a room big enough to add a mattress next to the one we have. our girl LOVES sleeping with mama and papa but she moves all over the place. :)

[Sfcmama]

We have a crib side-car set up. DD falls asleep nursing and is moved into the crib for the first stretch. She then moves back in to the big bed to nurse and/or cuddle with DH. We have a cal king so there's plenty of room but I sometimes use some of the crib space for myself when DD turns sideways between us.

We have a twin bed in the play/guest room that she will either move to or that will replace the crib next to our bed. (bypassing toddler bed)

[halomancer]

We have a king size mattress on the floor.  We plan to get a twin for DS and start to transition him to his own bed sometime in the next year.  He is 3.5.

[Peony]

DD1 slept with us until she was 3.5 until DD2 was born. DD2 was on O2 until she was 7 months old so we spilt up into 2 beds, 1 with D1 and DS and one with DD2 and I. Eventually we kept that arrangement but in different rooms. Towards the end of my 3rd pg, we moved everyone back into one bedroom to get DD2 used to sleeping with DH. Right now we have 1y DS in my bed upstairs, 4y DD2 and DH in one bed downstairs and 7y DD1 on another mattress. We are working on getting the 2 girls into bunk beds, but DD2 isn't so interested.

[To-Fu]

We have a king bed for now.  It looks like this, if you had an overhead view:

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| baby | Mama | Papa | 3yo |

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We have these bed bumpers on both edges of the bed and the bed is not pushed against any walls on the sides. 

We have plans to start the big kid's transition to his own bed (in our room) soon because even with the king it's a bit crowded!

[CowsRock]

We have three twin mattresses all on the floor.  Two of the mattresses have a king size piece of foam so we aren't dealing with the crack in the middle.  The third mattress right now just holds clothes all the time, lol!  With another on the way, I'm thinking baby and I might use the third mattress and hubby and son stay on the two made up as a king...who knows how it will actually play out though.  We definitely have lots of room though, it really works for us!

[Tattooed Hand]

Originally Posted by Adaline'sMama 

We have a twin mattress perpindicular to the head of our mattress, so that I can move over and nurse her. Its technically "her"bed, and I try to sleep with DH as much as possible. After 6 months of DH moving to the couch in the middle of the night because me and DD were taking up too much room on the queen bed, we decided to do this.

:yeah

The twin mattress works great. All our beds are on the floor and DD's twin is pushed up against the wall. I roll onto her bed to nurse and then (most of the time) roll back to our bed. It's more comfy for everyone because she thrashes around in her sleep alot. This began around 7ish months and she started waking up because she didn't have enough room. We put her in the twin bed at around 9 months. Everyone is sleeping better and she is still basically next to me.

[Amanda_Reyasmom]

Thanks you guys! It's  nice to know I'm not totally insane and that this set up really could work. 

[goinggreengirl]

Crib side carred to queen here. But baby will never stay on it so it's more to keep him from rolling to the floor. When he's older, we'll probably do a twin next to us then slowly transition him to the twin before we have another baby.

[juniper_mama]

We were all sleeping in our queen bed (with DS in the middle) until recently we sidecarred the crib to the bed and it was the best move ever!  DS (13 months) is disturbed slightly less and I have more room!

[MrsBone]

Well, we are working on getting DS in his own bed in his room, but right now, he still wakes up in the middle of the night and comes and gets in bed with us. We all share a king. The goal is to have DS in his own room by the time the next babe arrives in May, just in case I decide to cosleep again. I really can't imagine having a toddler, me, DH and baby all in bed together.

[ryleeee]

haye is 5 now so he has his own loft bed and his own room...however most nights he ends up back in our room (or i end up sleeping up in the loft bed with him *ahem*) so we have his toddler bed set up right next to our queen. we're expecting in may, so i'll put a sidecar crib next to my side of the queen and haye's toddler bed over next to his daddy. we'll be wall to wall beds! lol. we never had a crib for haye, he always slept with us, but my sister is giving us this BEAUTIFUL dark wooden crib and it converts to a toddler bed and is easily sidecarred so i think that's a good move...

[mamazee]

Our family bed is currently just the little one and me.  The older one has her own room, and their dad is a very very light sleeper and prefers his own room as well.

[ibis]

We have a king sized bed with a crib side-car. Of course no one (ahem) actually sleeps in the crib, but it does give us more room because someone (me!) can sleep right on the very edge of the bed without falling off! 

[funwith4]

lets see, we've had a lot of set ups.  #1 and #2 slept in our bed with us, only a full size at that.  #3 we had a crib sidecarred.  #3 was stll there when #4 was born so we got a cosleeper for the other side of the (now queen size) bed.  #4 got too big for cosleeper so we got a 2nd sidecar.  #5 came along and still #3 and 4 were there so someone was always in the bed and not a sidecar.  1 sidecar broke so we replaced it with the cosleeper and #4 moved to his own bed.  #6 was born and #3 and #5 moved to a queen in their room with daddy.  #6 got big enough and #5 got used to #6 so #5 moved back in with me.  Then #1 started sleeping in with #3 so dh moved back in with me so current setup is 4 mo old in cosleeper (and my bed nursing and falling asleep) on my side then dh on other side of queen bed followed by 2 yr old in sidecar.  In the other room 14 yr old sleeps with 5 yr old in queen bed which leaves an empty todder bed and an empty twin bed in our house.

[shelibeli]

We have a king bed.  Daddy travels a lot and falls asleep on the couch a lot, so we only share with him sometimes, LOL!  Our bed looks like this:

Mesh bed rail**3 yo DD**mommy**baby**mesh bed rail.  I flip over the baby side to side to nurse, even though that isn't necessary, it is more comfy for me.  I have something called a Nurse & Glo pillow that is a pillow covered small box shape with a sloped side for baby to lean against, which also provides a nice barrier between baby and DD when they are on the same side of me.  I don't have the bed rail on my side up just yet (it folds down), baby isn't rolling, but when I am on the inside, I put the Nurse & Glo on the outside as a barrier, just in case.

If daddy joins us, he sleep on the far side next to the bedrail.  It is tight, but works for us.  Especially when he is gone, I love having my kiddos close all night.

[dlh3]

I am a stay at home mom so if my 3 yo is sick then it is just her and I in the king sized bed.  But usually it is husband on one side, me on the other and our snuggle bean in the middle.  We tried mattress on the floor but she did not like it.  Anyone have advice on how to get husband to be more supportive of it.  My husband argues with me about it, but ends up giving in.  I just want her close.