How should I dress her for co-sleeping?

[bubbasweet]

I'm probably going to sleep in the spare room with my baby tonight as the last two nights she's not settled at all in the moses basket. But I don't know how to dress her. Currently she's in a vest and baby-grow, and for sleeping in the basket I put a blanket over her and she seems to have been warm enough when I check by putting my fingers inside her clothes. I have got some gro-bags but they're huge and she's teeny (I think her head would probably fit through the head gap, so not an option really).

I am a bit nervous about doing it, but have read up all the precautions, and quite frankly prepared to try anythign to get a bit of sleep now!

[Waxy Bean]

G (4 months) has been sleeping in just a romper for weeks now. We co-sleep and if he seems cold, I chuck a muslin swaddle over the pair of us. Our house is very warm though and I've slept in a vest top and thin pj trousers with no covers recently too.

[Mrs B]

Chances are that she'll pick up heat from you, so I would leave her in a vest and sleepsuit and put her on top of your duvet/blanket. If she gets cold she'll let you know and your arm over her legs or around her will add what she needs.

[Skipping Girl]

Have you tried swaddling her Bubba? Might make her feel more settled in the moses cot. Maybe just a muslin or a light cellular blanket. Think this can be done if co-sleeping too.

Kat
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[cheeky_biscuit]

Dd2 liked being swaddled. We had the kiddopotomus Cotten swaddles and they were great.
For co-sleeping, id go one layer for baby.
Congratulations!

[parkejm]

It's 24 degrees in our bedroom at the moment and Oren is in a sleepsuit. It partly depends on how snuggly they are, Oscar would turn away from me a lot and so he had a vest on too, but Oren likes to be practically wedged into my armpit and he's a sweaty little thing too so he just gets a sleepsuit. I did swaddle him a few times in the winter but he got so sweaty I got worried about it and unwrapped him.

I do have a fan going in the room but it's not pointed at the bed directly.

Good luck with it, hope you get some sleep. I loved cosleeping, it really worked for us with both boys and I got far more sleep than I would have done otherwise (I think!)

[Dr Spouse]

Another huge fan of cotton swaddlers, very very calming, though he did have a few nights in very warm temps when tiny though we could whack the A/C on - but it could get hot overnight and be much warmer at 4am than when we went to bed.

[Raspberry beret]

L just wears a vest and sleepsuit (or just sleepsuit if a particularly warm night) for cosleeping. I put a cellular blanket over him for the first few hours when he is in his cosleeper cot by himself but the rest of the night he tends to be in our bed. Hope it helps and you get a bit more sleep, cosleeping has definitely helped me loads .