Co-sleeping is for masochists.
For the record, I don't have anything against co-sleeping, and if you're one of those families that cosleeps on purpose AND loves it, that's fantastic.
But it is NOT working for us.
Johnny actually does sleep in his own bed most of the time, but the problems arise when he wakes up in the middle of the night and comes to our bed. Since the kids share a room, and since John and I are usually zombies, getting out of bed and putting him back into his own mostly doesn't happen. We're too tired to do anything besides move over, and we run the risk of waking Maureen if we do take him to his room.
We have a queen size bed, but I have a feeling that even placing two king size beds side by side would still not be enough to keep Johnny from finding my ribs and digging his feet into them, stealing my pillow, bashing me in the skull with his head at the same time, or generally disturbing my sleep.
Last night, he showed up in our room. He was rolling around a lot, and I heard John mumble, "Johnny, stop kicking me!" Then John must have moved Johnny over, because *I* was suddenly shoved to the side of the bed, almost falling off. Since teetering on the edge of a mattress and sleep tend to be mutually exclusive, I vacated the bed and debated. Couch or Johnny's bed? Johnny's bed would be more comfortable, but if I went in there, it's a sure bet that Jameson will rattle the door to get in, and I might step on a creaky spot on the floor, waking up the baby. I risked it. The couch makes my back hurt.
John had an early meeting today, so when Maureen woke up and I went out in the hall to grab a clean diaper for her, Johnny was in our bed alone. A twenty-six pound toddler, in a queen sized bed.
We so need to move. This musical beds thing is getting old.
For the record, I don't have anything against co-sleeping, and if you're one of those families that cosleeps on purpose AND loves it, that's fantastic.
But it is NOT working for us.
Johnny actually does sleep in his own bed most of the time, but the problems arise when he wakes up in the middle of the night and comes to our bed. Since the kids share a room, and since John and I are usually zombies, getting out of bed and putting him back into his own mostly doesn't happen. We're too tired to do anything besides move over, and we run the risk of waking Maureen if we do take him to his room.
We have a queen size bed, but I have a feeling that even placing two king size beds side by side would still not be enough to keep Johnny from finding my ribs and digging his feet into them, stealing my pillow, bashing me in the skull with his head at the same time, or generally disturbing my sleep.
Last night, he showed up in our room. He was rolling around a lot, and I heard John mumble, "Johnny, stop kicking me!" Then John must have moved Johnny over, because *I* was suddenly shoved to the side of the bed, almost falling off. Since teetering on the edge of a mattress and sleep tend to be mutually exclusive, I vacated the bed and debated. Couch or Johnny's bed? Johnny's bed would be more comfortable, but if I went in there, it's a sure bet that Jameson will rattle the door to get in, and I might step on a creaky spot on the floor, waking up the baby. I risked it. The couch makes my back hurt.
John had an early meeting today, so when Maureen woke up and I went out in the hall to grab a clean diaper for her, Johnny was in our bed alone. A twenty-six pound toddler, in a queen sized bed.
We so need to move. This musical beds thing is getting old.
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Only two times have we had child in bed.
Both times were when she was sick and both times our king size bed was not big enough!
Seemed a foot, elbow, hand always found it's way to me.
Probably the worst nights sleep I ever had in my life.
~Renae~
I don't have "still" sleepers, either, and have always wished I did. I sure love a good cuddle!!!
Try this: Get him a sleeping bag, and a tell him that if he HAS to be in your room, he can bring his pillow and sleep on the floor.
It will solve 2 things: He gets to have the security of being close to Mommy & Daddy, but be uncomfortable on the floor.
It worked for the Howler--who cannot NOT hog the bed and the covers...and who decided that she could come check that we were still "dare" and put herself back in bed.
We've tried so hard to avoid Trent sleeping with us because we fear that it'll turn into a permanent thing. Lately, he's been sleeping like CRAP though. I almost want to bring him into our bed now just to not listen to him whine.
I don't know what I'd do if the boys shared a bedroom, but we have a gate across the door to Collin's room so he can't get out. He's gotten out a couple of times, once he used his diaper pail to help him climb over and the other time he kicked the bottom out and crawled under. For the most part though he just goes back to bed or lays down next to it. We don't have enough room in our bed for the two of us, I can't had a wiggly toddler in there too!
I was always very careful about this because I didn't want it to be a habit. So careful, that on the few occasions when Gabe was really sick or had a bad dream and I put him in our bedc, he usually was asking to go back to his own bed within a half hour! Now if I ask him if he wants to get in bed with me he tells me no! We'll see how things go with Kylie since she's already in our room. Once she's ready for a bed, she moves in with Gabe!
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