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I put my (14 month old) son to sleep in his crib every night and my husband and I have about an hour or 2 in the same bed every night.... until the baby awakes. When he does, my husband goes to sleep in the spare bedroom and my son and I sleep together. The baby is just such a bed hog. He won't sleep with both of us, he doesn't have enough room... Or, he sees Daddy and thinks it's time to play. Hubby is good about it but I know that it is killing him... He wants to sleep with us, too.
How do others deal with this? Any ideas? We've tried just sticking it out for a night here and there but no one sleeps. Do others have the baby in the middle? Next to the wall? There just has to be an easier way. Thanks! |
| Posted by Lauren on 03/24/2008 08:44 PM
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| I have no idea. Our daughter is 9 months and sleeps part of every night in our bed. |
| posted by Christa on 03/24/2008 08:50 PM
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What size bed do you have? If its not a California King size then its probably time to upgrade...if it already is...then call Shaquille Oneil and ask him where his was custom made ;) kidding :)
To answer your question, our daughter sleeps between us and has plenty of room to thrash around if necessary. If she seems like she wants to play with us we both turn our backs to her until she calms down. But there are times I wonder how long we too can last as she grows with time. We hope your poor husband doesn't have to keep up that routine for too long before you figure out the answer! |
| posted by JC on 03/24/2008 09:04 PM
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Thanks, JC!
It's a queen... A Cal king would be a bit big for the room, but, I guess you are right... we may need to upgrade. First we'll try him in the middle though and take your advice and turn our backs to him if he wants to play instead of just insisting that he stop. |
| posted by Lauren on 03/25/2008 08:26 AM
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We have a queen, too. Our 10.5 month old spends most of the time in between us, but it is hard at times.....When she is really wiggly one of us trys to bear hug her to reduce the motion and get in some snuggle time. Sometimes this fails :) While it is more plesent then easy, it sure does take a commitment.
Good Luck and remember that Dr. Sears says BALANCE is the key to attachement parenting, it only works if it works for your family.
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| posted by Celeste on 03/25/2008 09:06 AM
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I co-slept with all four of my children. As problems arised, things always just kind of fell into place for a solution. In response to sleeping with your child, if your bedroom in big enough, take one side of the crib down or off, depending on the style and tie the legs of the crib to the side of your bed.
Sort of like an extended bed.
This also makes a good transition for your child to get used to seeing/being in a crib yet having the security of being near both parents and the convenience for you for nursing.
Though... the child starts in the adjoined crib at night, by morning I always found my self sleeping in the crib part!!!! It was funny the first time it happened. But... at least there was room for all of us and he got used to sleeping next to daddy too!
In the morning, I would show how much fun I was having sleeping in the crib (as silly as it sounds) but then he would want to go in there and proclaimed it his!
As he got bigger for the transition of going into a toddler bed, we switched the crib with the toddler bed. My husband and I still had the closeness of sleeping together and Mitchel still had the security of sleeping "with" us. |
| posted by Laura on 03/25/2008 11:37 AM
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The suggestion about putting the crib up to the bed (taking one side off) worked out great - Thanks Laura! A word of caution - use common sense to make sure it is safe enough that baby can't get hurt in any way.
Its been a few days now and it seems to be working. We try to get her napping in the same way so those two things working in conjunction should do the trick. Hopefully this works for others too! |
| posted by JC on 03/28/2008 01:35 PM
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