So I co sleep with my son part of the night. He wakes up normally around 10. I always put him in his side of the bed (I'm single so it's just him and me). Half an hour later I'm having to get up off the floor! Does your child hog the bed???
lol Yeah! My son also does the sideways H thing!!!!
@momandsmom g. Why shouldn't I cosleep while being single? What problems will it create that it wouldn't for married couple. Don't tell me not to cosleep.
We do not co-sleep but we will let DS (5) come into the bed on weekend mornings if we want a little more sleep. After about 5 minutes he manages to maneuver himself into a perpendicular position and using his extremely pointed knees and elbows take over approximately 95% of the bed. He developed this talent pretty early on.
That is so funny!!! My sister is 8 years younger that me. I remember going to my grandparents house for Christmas and all of my cousins were there also. This meant that my grandparents had their room, my parents had one room, my aunt and uncle had one room, and my single aunt had one room. This left the girls (3 of us) to sleep on the pull out couch, the boys (4 of them) to camp out in the kitchen floor (under the table?!?!?!) and the baby cousin got the baby bed where my sister would have normally slept when we came to visit. My sister was 3 years old and much to old really for the baby bed anyway. So my sister slept in the middle of the pull out couch with my cousin and I on the outer edges. My sister slept with both arms and both legs spread as far as she could and slept very soundly. My cousin and I were hanging on with the couch arms behind our head and our toes caught on the metal frame and the rest of us hanging off the bed completely. We fell out of bed several times and fussed with my sister, trying to pull her arms down and push her legs together without waking her. She would wake up regardless screaming and my mother would come in there and bawl us out. That was one sleepless miserable night.
my 25 month old slept with us until he was about 10 months old, and even then he was all over the place! My poor husband ended up sleeping on the couch most nights because of it (thats when i decided it was due time for my baby babe to head to his own crib). One night we put his crib up to teh side of ours in a sidecar arrangement, and he wanted nothing to do with that. He woke up and angrily pouted and started charging/crawling over to my husband. Then when he realized it wasn't Me, he screamed and turned around then started charging at me. He would wake up every 30 minutes jsut to make sure i was still there! Nobody was sleeping haha
A couple weeks ago he started having nightmares and one sleepless night we decided to just bring him to our bed. oh.my.gosh. It was awful! He would wake up and scream "WHERE ARE YOU GOING!?" whenever one of us would move (and I have our 4 month old in bed with us now, so whenever i adjusted myself to nurse her he would flip out). After a few hours I took her downstairs and we slept on the couch (she's a really good and snuggly sleeper). When I went upstairs to wake my husband up, he had our boy's toes up his nose and and was holding on for dear life in the top corner of the bed. Coper had flippped himself upside down and had his whole body sprawled across the bed. My hubby said he kept ramming his head into the wall all night too. It's cute to know he still does his "head for the hills!" act in his sleep like he did when he was a baby. He used to just started climbing over the pillows right into the wall when he slept with us before, and he still does it! haha
My mom has 13 grandkids between my siblings and I, and she has 2 spend the night every weekend. When it was my son's turn (baby's still too small), I set up a pack 'n play for him at the end of her bed and she was offended because she was sure he would rather sleep with her like all the other kids do. The next morning when I went to pick him up, her hair was all frazzled and she looked like she hadn't slept in months...I guess Cooper kept climbing into her windows (at the top of her bed) then getting mad and screaming. Eventually he begged her to just put him in the crib at the end of the bed and he slept soundly the rest of the night. Kids are crazy!!
better to hog the bed than put his feet in your face all night like my oldest did. :) my youngest is a huge bed hog but fortunately he gets out of bed about 1 am and goes and hogs his brothers bed instead of mine. for some reason his brother winds up in the floor everynight. I guess brother just has a more comfy mattress than us.
We don't co sleep but I've had our daughter in out bed once when she wasn't feeling good. Needless to say she was the only one that got good sleep. lol
This is exactly why we chose to side care the crib! LOL My little man likes to wiggle and having the extra space for him means that DH and I don't get pushed out of the bed. He likes to sleep sideways so he'll snuggle up to nurse and when he's done he roles back into the crib and stretches out. :-D
my first daughter used to turn all the way horizontal then put her arms all the way out, lol
Totally. We don't do it very often, but when we do, we have two who sleep sideways. Thankfully the oldest has sorta stopped, but he's still on top of us. Our littlest just keeps a finger on us all night which really tickles like crazy!!!! She also talks in her sleep, so she no longer has an invitation to join! :) She joined me the other night because she was missing daddy who's out of town. I finally got to sleep at 7:20 a.m. when she got up to eat breakfast. So totally worth it, though. I loves those snuggles, even if I am dead tired the next day!
We don't co-sleep but lately 3 year old DD sometimes gets up way too early for my liking, and I give her the choice of snuggling in bed with us for a while, or going back to her room. She will always pick snuggling with us and sometimes ends up falling back asleep. She's pretty good about not hogging the bed or sleeping across it, but sometimes she wants to lay her head right on top of my head!
OMG YES! If it's not her turned side ways and her feet in my back, its her head in my back. If she's not turned sideways she's diagonal. If it's not that she's turned where she's upside down from where she started. She starts all the way on the far side, I even put stuff between us...but somehow I end up right on the edge with no room to even turn because she's digging into my spine. If her arms are tucked in, her feet are sprawled out, if her feet are tucked in her arms are sprawled out...including over my face.
If I choose not to turn over and stay facing her, everytime she moves I wake up to put her back in "her" spot.
This is why we don't do it very often. It's funny you posted this because last night was the first night we co-slept in forever, I was not a happy camper in the morning, although I did make it to Starbucks in 3 minutes. ;)
My middle one liked to sleep in an H with him as the crossbar so that he could push both of us out of bed.
My little one has to be on top of me when he is in my bed (only when hubby is traveling, cause he can't take it anymore!). So he pushes me off, too.
LOL
We are not that bad, but if any one of my children share the bed with my husband and I one of us gets kicked in the back or gut at least three or four times before we give up and send them back to their own beds.
Definitely, but co-sleeping for us was usually having our babies in our room in a bassinet or pack-n-play then me falling asleep nursing. As babies it wasn't as big of a deal, but when we stay over with my in-laws, our toddler usually sleeps with us and I sleep with one foot on the floor to brace my body in the bed. My husband is usually okay, but our son burrows into my back over and over until I'm falling off. My MIL said he slept with her the last time they kept both boys (my FIL slept in the living room with our 4 year old) and our toddler kept sleeping sideways and shoving her off the bed. She couldn't believe how much space he takes up. :)
my dd has only slept with me when she's sick. it's a bad idea even as a single parent to let kiddo sleep in the bed with you...creates future problems
but when she does (just to sleep in the middle every now and then) she's in her own bed by midnight....i've woke up with a hand in my face, hubby on the couch and a knee in my back before and her...........side ways.......she's a wild sleeper.
Absolutely!!! My hubby works midnights so its generally just my little one and me in the bed. Well, my five yr old son has always been a restless sleeper.....he does all kinds of acrobats all night long. Now that the 11 month old is in there too....I'm pretty certain I'm not getting a very rested sleep. Both of my boys are "dig your toes in to mommy's stomach and sides to keep your feet warm" kinda kids. So I spend the whole night sliding further and further away from those sharp little toes....before long, I might as well just put a pillow and blanket on the floor and call it a night.
