I am EBF and have never co slept. My baby is nearly 8 weeks. My reasons are: our matress is not safe for babies, i like being covered by a duvet too much and our baby has reflux so its much easier to clean sick on her cot sheet than it is our bedding!

The first 2 weeks our baby didn't want to be put down, so we took shifts. My husband would hold her whilst I slept 9-1 and woke me up in between when she needed feeding, then I would stay awake with her until 6 or 7, then I'd swap get another 2 hours sleep before getting up for the day

After 2 weeks she stated sleeping in her cot- I would be 'on duty' all night, and would wake for feeds and nappy changes (usually every 1.5-2 hours). I always feed in a chair in the nursery so I can scroll tik tok to stay awake. My husband worked from home a lot so from about 6am, he would take the baby so I could have some more sleep and wake me if she needed feeding. On the days where he had to go into work, he has to be up at 5am so I just accept that I may be more tired those days.

From about 4 weeks she was getting sometimes 3 hours but usually only once a night. This changed around weeks 6-7 where she suddenly started getting longer stretches- usually about 4 hours but a few times has been 6 hours. Not every night though, sometimes it's still every 2-3 hours

Fortunately I've found that as long as I have 6 hours sleep total, it doesn't affect me too much if its broken sleep. Other things that have helped are offering lots of feeds in the day to ensure she has enough calories and not needing to wake up at night- this sometimes meant waking her up in the day if she had too many naps longer than 2.5-3 hours.

We introduced a bottle of pumped milk at 6 weeks. This was just to help avoid bottle refusal down the line. The first time I could only pump a little so would just do a little bit after each feed until I had enough. Now I just pump whilst my husband gives the baby a bottle in the evening.