Co-Sleeping
I’m SO over it. If you can even call it co-sleeping. I haven’t been getting any sleep, so it’s more like Adri sleeping in my bed while I lay between her and John.
When the girls were first born, I was all about co-sleeping. It just made life so much easier. I never had to actually wake up for late night feedings, because they’d just find their way to a boob and feed themselves. I wasn’t getting amazing sleeping since I was worried about crushing a baby. But to me, it was decent enough and a better option than having to actually wake up and sit while trying to feed a child.
Co-sleeping lasted about 10 months with each girl. Basically until they were weaned from breastfeeding. The transition from my bed to their own was relatively simple. For the most part, we had a great routine.
Towards the end of John’s deployment, Veronica made her way back into bed with me. Getting her out was a nightmare. Now we’re facing the same dilemma with Adriana. She had fantastic sleep habits before we got to Hawaii, but the move here really messed her up.
Lately, it feels like I’m getting beat up in my own bed. I imagine it had to be something like sleeping next to the bundle of joy that is Johnny Manziel. Complete with the Heisman pose. A few nights ago there was an extended arm which led to a palm in my face accompanied by a knee to the stomach.
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I’ve tried tiring her out more during the day in hopes that she’ll stay asleep in her bed, but so far it’s only delayed the inevitable. I also tried getting her to sleep in V’s new big bed last night, but she wasn’t feeling it. My next option might be to exile myself to the guest room or couch. I only have a few more months to enjoy mediocre sleep, before I have to start worrying about rolling over a child again.
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Em co-slept until about 10 months. Super easy to transition to her crib then toddler bed. Then we moved to NC and she was constantly ending up on our bedroom floor. For about one year it was constant trying to get her to sleep in her own bed. Now she does, every night. We bought her a flashlight friend and a dream light and they seem to help.
We never co-slept. My oldest did sleep with me when he was 2, but it was after his dad and I got divorced. He started by coming in during the night, and before I knew it he wouldn’t go to sleep unless he was in my bed. That was fixed when we moved. The youngest tries to do it if her dad isn’t home, but it’s rare. I don’t mind so much when they are little, but when they get bigger and become huge bed hogs, it’s not flying.
I had to laugh at this because we are going through the same thing. Avalon still sleeps with us, which we like. But its like the boys plan out which one will walk in in the middle of the night and join the party. Chris will be the first one to book it to the guest room. haha! Its hard but when they do come in we usually try to put them right back in their beds. For the most part that works. But I feel for you!
Oh man!! I have no desire to co-sleep lol.
Oh my goodness! You must be exhausted! I don’t think I could ever co-sleep and I am so embarrassed to admit this, but part of the reason I don’t want kids is getting my sleep cycle interrupted.
Hmm, me thinks the prego woman should get to sleep in her own bed, haha.
Ugh … Poor Mama! We never coslept when the kids were babies. I thought I would enjoy it at the time, but our bed is just too small {we have a double bed … and we aren’t teeny people! LOL} so it just wasn’t going to happen. But now I’m kind of glad we never did it. When my former boss would come to work complaining every day because her three and five year old kids took up most of their KING sized bed, I knew I wasn’t missing out! Ha!
B keeps sneaking in our bed in the middle of the night too. I’m so over it!
Oh man I chuckled at that image. We never really co slept UNTIL we moved. And then I felt bad uprooting this child from everything he remembers so I would let him climb in bed with us until I realized he was the only one getting a decent night sleep. He gets put right back to bed these days… it means a bit of a struggle, but I’m hoping one day we’ll quit having the late night visitor 😉
My 3 year old wants to sleep in our bed a lot. Sometimes I let her crawl in, but my husband hates it because she is all over the place. My parents didn’t want me to sleep in their bed, so if I was scared during the night I was allowed to sleep on their floor next to the bed. I am considering doing that for my kids. Maybe buy one of those kid cots for them.