Has anyone co-slept with a newborn and almost 2 yr old?

[justjen]

Aidan has to have me to go to sleep! His latest thing to do is stroke my arm and curl up with it when he goes to sleep. I'm getting worried about baby Glenn's arrival. I want to make the transition of Glenn's arrival as easy as possible on Aidan. He is Mommy's little boy and he is very attached to me.

The main thing that worries me is not having enough room in the bed! What do you think? Invest in a king size bed?

[metta4]

Curious to see the replies as we are in the same boat. Iain (age 2..almost) sleeps with us..b/t DH and I. I figure I will attach the basinet that has a side the drops down to make it a cosleeper on my side of the bed. Lucikly I did talk DH into a King sized bed a couple months ago.

I am worried about the baby waking Iain up in the middle of the night when he cries...

[lizamac]

We copslept with Tricia and Anne for quite awhile. Anne as a newborn was between the wall and me, and Tricia inbetween daddy and me. We have a california king bed, so room wasnt too much of an issue. Eventually when Anne was about 4 mo Tricia moved to her own room (on a queen sized futon low to the ground), and when Anne was about a year she started sleeping with her big sister in there a lot of the time (they still sleep together).

Lately though Anne has been waking again in the mid of the night (2 yr molars maybe??) and needing me, so I know sometimes we will be doing this all over again. It works, as long as your sleeping area is large enough and you are safe about it. Often times right now since I am so tired in the mid of the night when Anne needs momma I just go in and snuggle up between the 2 girls in THEIR bed. lol Hey its a queen! Why not? DH wakes at 430 anyway, so I usually get more sleep that way. I can just see Lee, Anne Tricia and me in there sometimes. Yikes!

[SarahsMommy]

Sarah is almost three and we are expecting another in May. From what I've read, co-sleeping with more than one requires lots of BED room. We are going to add another queen bed to our other queen and throw both mattresses on the floor. I think it'll be very cozy. I will put baby between me and the wall and Sarah between daddy and me. I'm lucky to have a DH that loves co-sleeping so much. I'm kind of hoping baby #2 is a girl so that they can share a bed when they are both big enough. But if it's a boy, maybe they could share a room while they're both little and moving out of our bed. We'll see I guess.

[Gayesy]

I think that it would make the transition when your new little one arrives much smoother for Aidan if he can have the same (or at least similar) settling at night. It isn't considered safe to have a toddler and a newborn sleeping next to each other, but as far as I know there is no reason why you couldn't have Aidan on one side and newborn on the other. I thoroughly recommend you get the biggest sleeping area you can fit in your room and afford.

[hedra]

Another vote for expanding the bed.

With Brendan, the crib sidecar was enough (might also be enough to add that for the newborn, and keep the 2-yr-old on the other side of you. However, when we were going for adding another baby, we decided that a queen wasn't big enough for an active-sleeping-3-year-old AND an infant, so we planned to add a twin to our queen. Then we found out it was twins, so we added a queen to our queen, and the whole end of room is bed! But it works. Now that the girls are over a year, Bren will sometimes sleep next to one of them, but I keep my arm around the girls anyway, just so he doesn't roll on them (they get grumpy when he's done that, and I still don't consider it safe).

Best of luck! It was challenging to comfort both babies AND a small child at once, but he learned to take turns - get the babies to sleep, and then I can cuddle him as long as he likes.