Both girls sleep in their own bed for the first part of the night. B usually wakes around 12 to 1 am and H goes in and sleeps in her bed with her. G wakes around 3 and comes into bed with me. G has slept in her bed all night before and then will start waking again to come sleep with me. We are working on getting her to stay in there all night again.
As in bed sharing. I'm wondering how many probies do.
I always thought I would never let my child share my bed, but Jack wouldn't sleep anywhere but in my arms when he was a baby and I got so sick of not sleeping that I brought him in our bed so I could nurse him back to sleep. He weaned at 18 months and is still in our bed. Well, he naps in his room, but sleeps nights in our bed.
I love having him there, especially with H working nights (his transfer fell through because some douche with more seniority decided after the fact to grieve the position--so H is still stuck on nights).
I kind of dread the day he says he wants to sleep in his room.
We bedshare part time these days. We did it most of the time when Max was a baby (he slept in a co-sleeper thingy until he was about 4 months old.) Max naps at preschool just fine and in his room on weekends but we usually put him down in our bed and then transfer him to his bed. He spends a good portion of the night there and then comes into our room in the MOTN and climbs into bed w/ us. I'm fine w/ that. We don't see as much of him during the day anymore bc we both work FT so it's nice to get some snuggles. What's not great is lately he has been kicking and putting feet in my face in the morning
Post by DaphneStrauss on Aug 2, 2014 12:33:45 GMT -5
We've bed shared since the beginning. For the most part it has been great, I sleep better with her close by. But mh has been kicked out of the bed due to space and his snoring issues. We will probably get a king sized bed soon.
Caleb spends most of every night in our bed and I hate it. Yes, the snuggles are nice in small amounts, but I can't wait for the day when I don't have to worry about him pushing me out of bed or rolling onto my hair.
I wish I could sleep with a child next to me, but I just can't. J slept in bed for the first 5 months and I just about went insane. Thankfully the RnP was invented and both A&D have slept wonderfully in it, so no more cosleeping. I look forward to the day the baby STTN and we can transfer him into J's room.
I wish he would sleep in my bed when DH is away. But, he either would play all night, or if start up a habit I'm not ready to commit to. But I love sleeping baby snuggles. Even though he's practically a kid now.
We started around 6 months when they outgrew the rock n play. Then we attempted to sleep train. We have gone through spurts of middle of the night trips to our bed. They toss and turn like crazy though and stick fingers up our noses and in our eyes so no one sleeps well when they are in our bed. I wouldn't mind if they slept with us if they actually slept.
We have resorted to sleeping on the floor in their room. Where H is right now This separation anxiety stage is not helping.
We started around 6 months when they outgrew the rock n play. Then we attempted to sleep train. We have gone through spurts of middle of the night trips to our bed. They toss and turn like crazy though and stick fingers up our noses and in our eyes so no one sleeps well when they are in our bed. I wouldn't mind if they slept with us if they actually slept.
We have resorted to sleeping on the floor in their room. Where H is right now This separation anxiety stage is not helping.
I had to sleep on J's floor for months. Months I say. One week, something just clicked and we haven't looked back. Once I realized he wasn't calling out to me for a couple of nights I went to my bed, and it was seamless. Hang in there. Hopefully they catch on soon!
We started around 6 months when they outgrew the rock n play. Then we attempted to sleep train. We have gone through spurts of middle of the night trips to our bed. They toss and turn like crazy though and stick fingers up our noses and in our eyes so no one sleeps well when they are in our bed. I wouldn't mind if they slept with us if they actually slept.
We have resorted to sleeping on the floor in their room. Where H is right now This separation anxiety stage is not helping.
I had to sleep on J's floor for months. Months I say. One week, something just clicked and we haven't looked back. Once I realized he wasn't calling out to me for a couple of nights I went to my bed, and it was seamless. Hang in there. Hopefully they catch on soon!
We can't even attempt to let them cry for a few minutes because I'm anxious about the downstairs neighbor
We are an end unit and share one wall with another neighbor and she is awesome. She knows how tough it is and never complains ( I always apologize if the boys are up screaming during the night), she just sympathizes with me.
I feel like they are never going to learn to sleep until they are teenagers. Ha!
I had to sleep on J's floor for months. Months I say. One week, something just clicked and we haven't looked back. Once I realized he wasn't calling out to me for a couple of nights I went to my bed, and it was seamless. Hang in there. Hopefully they catch on soon!
We can't even attempt to let them cry for a few minutes because I'm anxious about the downstairs neighbor
We are an end unit and share one wall with another neighbor and she is awesome. She knows how tough it is and never complains ( I always apologize if the boys are up screaming during the night), she just sympathizes with me.
I feel like they are never going to learn to sleep until they are teenagers. Ha!
They will learn, I promise. I didn't let j cry either, because we had just moved in and I was terrified if pissing of neighbors too. Hence the mattress on his floor. It was a long four months. Props to you for still going strong. They will get it sooner or later.
@dragonmommy422 They had a stretch of about 4 months at age 18 months when they went down so easily-like put them in their cribs after stories and they went right down- and slept all night with just a couple wake ups. When they woke up it was a quick less than one minute fix until they were back down again.
I long for those days and wish they would come back!
Hell no. We did cosleeping with both kids when they were NBs and I slept like shit bc they tossed and turned so much. We moved both of them to their own cribs, in their own rooms, at 3 months old. Now, they only come in our bed if they are having a sleepless night.
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