https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:52:01 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cosleeping-logistics-questions#post-1072842 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 16:21:05 +0000 mrskc 1072842@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wear a sleep nursing bra and a tank and just pull both down. Takes like a second and usually I don't even put it away so my boobs are hanging out all night. lol When I used to leak, I would wear pads and I used to keep a waterproof pad underneath where I slept to protect the mattress. That bugged me after awhile so I took it out. He does dribble milk or drool or whatever and it leaves a little wet spot but it doesn't bother me. </p> <p>When he was younger, it wasn't as easy, because I would have to help him latch. Now I can just whip it out and he latches on himself and I'm usually back to sleep very quickly. Also, he used to sleep curled up next to me, but now that he is fully mobile, he rolls away from me when he's done nursing. </p> <p>I put up a bed rail on my side of the bed and I switch him back and forth. So when he wakes, I grab him and bring him to my chest and we both roll to the other side. We do this throughout the night depending on how many times he wakes up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cosleeping-logistics-questions#post-1072829 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 16:01:58 +0000 lovehoneybee 1072829@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>E would sleep curled up to my side and I wore a nursing tank to bed. When he wanted to nurse he'd start rooting, it would wake me up long enough to unhook the shirt and nudge it down and then he'd latch on. Sometimes I didn't bother re-hooking it, and then he'd just latch on whenever (it maybe woke me up a tiny bit for a second). </p> <p>I did leak a bit, but I had a receiving blanket underneath me that caught most of it. I stopped leaking after 2 or so months. </p> <p>He usually slept between me and the wall, but I did something to my hips during delivery, and I couldn't stay on one side all night without extreme pain from hips to knees, so I would have to move every couple of hours. I would sit up, move him over a foot or so and settle back down on the other side, so he was sometimes between me and DH. I was never concerned about him being smothered by him, though. My lower arm was thrust out and my knee pulled up, and E slept nuzzled into me in between them. If DH had rolled over, he'd first have to roll onto my hand or knee before he got anywhere close to E. And DH slept in a sleep bag then, so he didn't roll at all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cosleeping-logistics-questions#post-1072765 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 14:40:49 +0000 Foodnerd81 1072765@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks! The nitty gritty details make the whole thing make more sense! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cosleeping-logistics-questions#post-1072755 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 14:25:29 +0000 Espion 1072755@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The only thing I'll add is that I put a cloth diaper under E's head. He's a spit up monster and this keeps everyone relatively dry. I just make sure it's totally smoothed out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cosleeping-logistics-questions#post-1072693 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 13:19:09 +0000 LittleFox 1072693@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wear a tank or a sleep bra and just pull it down. I used to leak early on, so I would also put a nursing pad in, but I wouldn't always remember to pull the shirt and pad into place. It wasn't a big deal, you just might end up washing your sheets a bit more. Now I rarely leak, so I don't need one. I also tend to wear pants and a cardigan or light robe, so we don't have to use blankets. </p> <p>For us, our LO usually sleeps between us or between me and a bed rail, depending on what side he was last nursing from. I've heard it isn't as safe for babies to sleep next to dads, though, so we didn't have him next to DH for a long time. I would have done a crib side car or pushed our bed against the wall if it was an option, but instead I just slept with him in the crook of my elbow all night when he was smaller. Now he rolls, crawls, and moves around a lot in his sleep, so he's between us more often. LO also likes to sleep in the very center of the bed, on his back, completely stretched out, so I end up scrunched up on the edge of the bed pretty often, haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cosleeping-logistics-questions#post-1072682 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 13:12:20 +0000 runsyellowlites 1072682@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I still leaked I'd wear my night nursing bra (almost like a sports bra) with breast pads... Sometimes a shirt/tank sometimes not &amp; we slept on a prefold (for that wet spot issue). Now that I don't leak sometimes I just sleep topless, always bra less though.</p> <p>Like @mrsjazz I just roll P over, pull up shirt (or down if I'm wearing a tank), nurse, &amp; doze... Roll P back over &amp; go back to sleep. Sometimes the boob stays out, sometimes (like when I still leaked) it goes back. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cosleeping-logistics-questions#post-1072650 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 12:36:41 +0000 allison 1072650@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just wear a tank, no bra. Just pull up the tank. Done. I prefer a fitted tank to a tee because I get nervous with the loose fabric of a tee draping over his face accidentally. I tend to fall asleep while nursing him at night.</p> <p>I don't leak at night, but I'm 7 months pp. I did at first, so I wore a nursing tank with pads (change the pad when they get wet!).</p> <p>We sidecar now, but we didn't use to. Before, he slept on my side because DH sleeps too hard for me to feel comfortable with LO sleeping right beside him when he was really small. Now, I'm fine with it. If you'd rather him sleep on your side, you can get a bedrail so you don't have to worry as much about LO rolling off the bed.</p> <p>My LO sometimes dribbles milk onto the bed when he nurses. It doesn't really bother me. It just dries up and I forget it's there! ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cosleeping-logistics-questions#post-1072648 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 12:33:22 +0000 MamaJ 1072648@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I either wear a v neck men's tee and a nursing bra or a cami. It takes 2 seconds to pull it down and sometimes it just stays out haha. I do leak but I really don't care about my pajamas so I let it happen and it always comes out in the wash. DS usually sleeps in the middle. Sometimes cuddled up with me. But when I want my space I move him away. Sometimes he also rolls onto his belly away from me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cosleeping-logistics-questions#post-1072647 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 12:32:55 +0000 mrsjazz 1072647@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: I do roll over and go back to sleep but yes, there are a few seconds for adjustments. I sleep in either a nursing tank or tank and easy access bra. Feed the bambina, she rolls over, I fall back to sleep. I've woken up with my tank top or bra still down and boob completely exposed.</p> <p>ETA: even though we have our crib sidecarred, LO sleeps either in between the both of us or on the outside near me or in her crib. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cosleeping-logistics-questions#post-1072641 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 12:22:06 +0000 Foodnerd81 1072641@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@runsyellowlites: calling you out bc I know you nurse in your sleep!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cosleeping-logistics-questions#post-1072639 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 12:20:41 +0000 Foodnerd81 1072639@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I keep reading how when you cosleep you can just roll over and feed the baby and go right back to sleep. How? Do you not wear a shirt? I will nursing laying down sometimes but it still takes a minute to get set up, pull up the shirt and pull down the bra and get her latched, especially since I'm usually really full at that point in the night. Also do you not leak? I don't know if its leaking, drooling, or what but there is usually a wet spot under us. </p> <p>And general question- if baby sleeps in the bed, not a sidecar, is she between parents or on moms side? Snuggled up to mom or everyone in their own space? </p>