When the children were babies, we co-slept with them. I had no worries about rolling over on them, or Brian doing the same. I was able to nurse them and go back to sleep with ease, so it gave me the most amount of sleep I could get. Once they moved past the nursing stage, they stayed in their own beds.
Ah, the good old days when the crib could keep them prisoner!
Now, Kailan crawls into bed with us at some point in the night. Usually it is an hour or so before it’s time to get up. This happens fairly often. Anya does it less. Usually if she has a bad dream, she will crawl in on my side. Kailan heads for Daddy first, so Brian gets woke up pretty much once a night every night. Sometimes I sleep through it. However, it is usually close to morning and he doesn’t always go back to sleep.
He sniffles.
And sighs.
And watches the clock until he thinks he can ask us if he can get up and watch cartoons.
We need a 12 step program over here. The kid is an addict.
Yes, we then let him go watch cartoons because WE. NEED. SOME. SLEEP.
*sigh*
Sometimes you just do what you have to in order to maintain some semblance of sanity.
C’mon kid, you are growing! You need to sleep.
I too did the nursing whilst sleeping thing. I was a lifesaver. The Baby Angel spent many years calling for me in the middle of the night, then crawling in without me noticing when she got older, then crawling in and taking up 3/4 of the bed when she got even older!!! We made a point of weaning her off it when she was about 6 but when we moved to Australia (aged 7 and 1/2) she was back for awhile. Eventually it would mainly be after she’d been to stay with her dad; she’d crawl in for a week after she got back and then things would be back to normal. When I met my husband I expected there to be a problem with being ‘replaced’ in the bed but at 10 it seemed just the right time to just stop altogether. I think she asked me once and I pointed out there wasn’t enough room. Sooooooo you have many years of bed crawling to look forward to I suspect 🙂 Sorry!!
My son… Is a wonderful sleeper. My daughter… Stays up late and won’t sleep in her own bed. We co-slept with my son, did not with my daughter – go figure!! I hope you get things sorted out.
Unfortunately, we have one of those kiddos who you have to wait until he’s sick before he’ll actually sleep with anyone in the same bed next to him… I had all kinds of visions of my darling boy curled up next to me peacefully sleeping… but that has only materialized a couple of times since he weaned himself (we did kinda co-sleep for the first several months – at least in the wee hours, but it was quickly obvious that everyone slept better if he slept in the bassinet next to the bed).
I am still mourning the fact that he doesn’t need to be rocked to sleep anymore (nor could I physically do it!)
But gosh – aren’t your kiddos so sweet when they are sleeping – they look angelic! I still say, enjoy them while they are young 🙂
(And would you believe I didn’t find that pillow on Regretsy? But rather ETSY???)
Our 5 year old has stopped doing this. One day he just stopped, unless he is sick. However the little one fusses so much when he sleeps we’ve been known to leave him our bed and sleep elsewhere. They really do control our sleeping patterns don’t they? 😉