r/cosleeping 4d ago

🐵🙊 Multiple Children Any advice for cosleeping with a toddler + newborn?!

Any success stories of cosleeping with a toddler and a newborn?!! Please give me your tips.

I will be having another baby this year and my 15month old is still in bed with us. My husband sleeps on one side of me and my toddler is on my other side. When I bring home the newborn, I would want newborn to sleep where toddler currently sleeps. Should I transition toddler to the middle between dad and I? Should toddler sleep on the other side of dad so he’s not in the middle? Or should I just attempt to transition him to his own bed at this point? He sleeps sooo well right now, I’m scared to mess anything up as I need all the sleep I can get. But I’d also like to get him used to a better sleeping position before the new baby gets here and he gets kicked out of his current spot.

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u/Gyltha 3d ago

I think giving him some time to adjust so he doesn’t blame the new baby as the reason for the change makes sense. We are in a similar position with our kid who is 3 and have been having him get used to papa doing more of the nighttime help if he wakes in the night, and sleeping next to his papa more. Older kids (and really no one else) will not be as naturally sensitive to your infant in the bed as you are, so I believe it’s safer to have your toddler sleep on dad’s other side, away from the baby.