cosleeping with covers

[darbycrash]

For all the cosleeping families out there I need some advice. I have an arm's reach co-sleeper but when my 4 MO wakes to eat the first time during the night I bring him in the bed and keep him there. How do you arrange the covers?  I know I shouldn't use a comforter so I've got a thin summer bedspread and two blankets.  Do you give the child their own blanket? Do they share your blankets? What other tidbits and advice can you give?  Thank you!

[Baby_Cakes]

It might not follow the rules, but i cover myself to my waist w/comforter, and my arms and the lower half of ds with the sheet.  He's in the crook of my arm usually, so it works best that way.

[Thing1Thing2]

Originally Posted by Baby_Cakes 

It might not follow the rules, but i cover myself to my waist w/comforter, and my arms and the lower half of ds with the sheet.  He's in the crook of my arm usually, so it works best that way.

Same here. DS#2 is 2 weeks old. When DS#1 was a baby, I was anxious about the covers so I would arrange the covers to about waist high and then tuck them under the mattress on the bottom.

[Ginger Bean]

My baby was born in Sept so he was always in a warm sleepsack those early months. I dressed warmly and used a thin blanket.

He's 12mo now, and we're under the same duvet.

[Chloe'sMama]

I think DD1 was  about 5 months when we started blanket sharing (when it cooled off a bit).  DD2 was a bit younger.  I am not a sound sleeper and re-arrange the blankets often anyways.  DD2 gets covered to the mid chest... she is 1 year now.  

[anjsmama]

We started blanket sharing sometime around 6 months... once my kiddos could push up, roll over, move blankets, etc, I became a lot less nervous about the blankets. It's been so hot we've really only been using a sheet anyway, but now that it's cooling off I give DD the blanket too. I just pull it up to about mid-chest.  

[HawaiianBlesing]

We've been co-sleeping since day one and I don't follow the rules either.  DS sleeps in bed with us and I use the sheet,  a blanket and a down comforter.  He is in just a diaper.  I keep the sheet and blankets lower on him and just move myself down in the bed if I feel I need to cover up more.  I need weight on me to sleep.  If he is sleeping on my chest I will pull the covers up over both of us. 

I'm a very "alert" when I sleep.  If I was a super sound sleeper, I don't know that I would be comfortable doing the same thing.  DH is a pretty sound sleeper but never sleeps alone with him like I do.  He's more worried about the blanket issues than I am. 

[E m i c h i e e]

My son is one month old. In the hospital I kept him swaddled in his own blankets, in the family bed he sleeps in his own blankets when he sleeps in his own corner and I next to him, if he is fussy he sleeps in the nursing side lying position with his own blanket and my covers lowered not really covering him anywhere close to the face. I don't swaddle him so one side of his body is touching me without blanket in between, which he likes best.

[scottishmommy]

We use a thermal blanket for our bed and I keep the covers below my waist. I dress warmly so I don't get cold. Baby is in one of those muslin sleep sacks.