I despise bedsharing

KristenBtobe · October 2010

I truly do. Owen and I have colds so he's not been sleeping well. This combined with teething and what I'm finding to be typical 6 month old excitement to chit chat and squeal at 3 am means we've had a baby in our bed for parts of the last few nights. He goes to bed just fine but as soon as mike and I hit the hay he starts cooing and yelling on and off until I feed him around 3.(which also sucks because he used to go until 5) Then he's coughing and restless for the rest of the night and winds up in bed with us. I will never understand how a baby can wake from a night of broken sleep fresh as a daisy and I feel like crap. Guess we will be breaking out the Ferber once his cold is gone. Anyone else have complaints to lodge this morning?

Hezzerlah · October 2010

Alex is sick too. I went in to get him this morning and it looked like an alien had laid a snot wall of eggs up/across his nose. He literally didn't have nostrils.

My only complaint is partially my fault, so I'm bitching about myself.
I am FREAKING out that we haven't even started on the baby's room yet. I have 5 weeks to go and not one thing in washed, painted, set up, you name it... I woke up at around 2:30 to pee and nearly had a panic attack when I started to think about it. We're so lazy.

KristenBtobe · October 2010

We were the same way, Hezz. Owen's room was the guest/storage/clean clothes staging room well after he was born. Frankly, it stil is! Currently there are two suitcases, two baby gates, and some Christmas presents piled up on the built in desk in his room. All we'd done was paint and moved the dresser in his room from Maggie's. I think I washed clothes the week he was due. I still don't think Maggie appreciates the decor in her room so you've got at least 2 years.

KayRI · October 2010

My kid has a cold too, and is not sleeping well. Last night he was up coughing at 11, 3:15, and then up for good at 6:30. He wouldn't go back to sleep unless I rocked him in the recliner, but he's so squirmy I could barely hold onto him.

On the plus side, though, he finally started walking on Friday and is very cute. He did laps around the house all weekend.

Novemberrocks · October 2010

Miles has been sick on and off since the start of fall weather. He's now got a crusty nose (which is much better than a constantly runny nose), and what sounds like a chain-smoker's cough. Lovely.

I also got reprimanded by DC last week to cut his hair again so that he doesn't get boogers/food/drool in the bangs. Now he's sporting a very classy mullet.

Kay congratulations on the toddling toddler!

buddhagouda · October 2010

My kid has slept in his car seat the past three nights because he couldn't breathe laying flat in his bed. I'm kind of dreading putting him back in the bed because he has slept so well. He's also figured out how to chew on his feet at night, so when I get him up in the morning his socks/pajamas are soaked up to his knees. That can't be good for keeping him from getting sick.

Mrs.Expchic · October 2010

I had to bedshare this weekend, too. Friday night because I overhydrated him and he wet the bed and wouldn't go back down and Saturday because his genius mother decided to dress him in glow-in-the-dark pajamas and he woke up shiitting his pants that he was glowing. He likes to sleep sideways with his feet kicking dad and his head into mom's head.

buddhagouda · October 2010

Yeah, Ethan wound up in our bed Saturday morning because he decided to wake up at 5:30. There is no way I could sleep like that every night. He never stops moving. He spent an hour kicking and punching me in his sleep.

Hezzerlah · October 2010

Exp, you have me giggling like a loony at the glow in the dark pjs.

KayRI · October 2010

I had some glow in the dark jammies in my hand at the store the other day, then decided they may lead to a freak out. Sounds like a made the right call.

lmydogally · October 2010

My dog hogged all the covers last night, co-dogsleeping is for the birds.

wingedbride · October 2010

nose pimple dudes. nose effing pimple.

KristenBtobe · October 2010

Heh heh Exp. That's a great story.

mulva33 · October 2010

I hate bed sharing too. It's as though Liza can't get comfortable until her little feet are impeding on my ribcage. Luckily, she is not a fan either, b/c if I put her in the bed at night when she's whining, w/ in 45 min she says, "I go back to my bed." you got it sister. I'll even walk you there.

CaliopeSpidrman · October 2010

Was Grant freaked or fascinated by his fancy glowing PJs?

Meegs10.13.06 · October 2010

Gwen's been sleeping like crap too lately. Combination of a cold and what we're 90% sure is teething. She's been waking just unhappy and uncomfortable at 11 or 12ish, then again at 3. I can handle the first because she just needs a few snuggles, then she eats and goes right back to sleep. The 3 o'clock one is the worst though... she eats and falls asleep, but wakes the second you try to put her down. So I end up having to settle her multiple times. This morning I "tapped out" at 4 and Trav took over. He ended up sleeping on the futon in her room (we have it folded up like a couch), with her sleeping on his chest. It worked and they both slept until I woke them at 6:20.

Mrs.Expchic:
Saturday because his genius mother decided to dress him in glow-in-the-dark pajamas and he woke up shiitting his pants that he was glowing.

This gave me my first real chuckle of the day. But also, Noted... no glowing PJs.

Mrs.Expchic · October 2010

freaked! His room gets really dark. I was a little freaked myself when I walked in. And he had his arm pulled out through his top.

wkatie · October 2010

Zach has been sleeping terrible also, he is working on teeth (tooth?) numbers 4-8. 2 on top, 2 on bottom, all at once. Poor guy.

Here's a stupid question. He is now 11 months old and STTN 6 nights out of 7. He just sometimes wakes up at 4am or so, nurses, then goes back to sleep until 7am. I plan on quitting BFing at a year. Do one-year-olds magically stop needing/wanting to nurse in the middle of the night? Will I need to stop feeding him if he wakes up? After you switch to cow's milk, do you sometimes give them a bottle of milk in the middle of the night, if necessary?

samfish2bcrab · October 2010

Mrs.Expchic:
I had to bedshare this weekend, too. Friday night because I overhydrated him and he wet the bed and wouldn't go back down and Saturday because his genius mother decided to dress him in glow-in-the-dark pajamas and he woke up shiitting his pants that he was glowing. He likes to sleep sideways with his feet kicking dad and his head into mom's head.

Holy crap that's funny!

I'm pretty sure Lila was fighting other kids in her sleep last night.

We had her cake at the play area yesterday and though she didn't eat any of it, she immediately grabbed the Thomas Train from the top of it, shook off the icing and ran away with it. 10 minutes later I hear a ruckus in the corner and there she was being acosted by little bastardwho must have been at least 4 years old (he was from another party) and he was trying to tearit from her hands. He had her in a sort of headlock and she was gripping it and yelling "NOOOOOO MINNNNNNE NONO NO THOMASSSSSS" at the top of her lungs.

I had to run over to save her and the kid wouldn't let go of the damned train. I told him "i'm sorry, honey, that's her train from her cake" and he kept repeating "but I want it, I want it" I kept waiting for a parent to come over but I finally just took it from him and walked away. He started bawling and ran for his mom who then shot me dirty looks. WTF. lady, teach your kid not to steal toys from little ones and you won't have this crying mess on your hands.

I'm still impressed by how tough Lila was.

samfish2bcrab · October 2010

Katie, I weaned Lila at 6 months, but she took a bottle now and then at night after she turned one. Usually if she was sick and needed extra calories or a surefire way to get her back to sleep when she was feeling crappy.

KayRI · October 2010

wkatie:

Here's a stupid question. He is now 11 months old and STTN 6 nights out of 7. He just sometimes wakes up at 4am or so, nurses, then goes back to sleep until 7am. I plan on quitting BFing at a year. Do one-year-olds magically stop needing/wanting to nurse in the middle of the night? Will I need to stop feeding him if he wakes up? After you switch to cow's milk, do you sometimes give them a bottle of milk in the middle of the night, if necessary?

The short answer is no, there's no magic to turning one and no longer wanting to drink during the night. We'll give Ian milk if he wakes up in the middle of the night. I know you're not supposed to, because then they go back to sleep with unbrushed teeth. But it's not every night, and it's often towards the time he's supposed to get up anyway.

heyemilina · October 2010

lmydogally:
My dog hogged all the covers last night, co-dogsleeping is for the birds.

Word.

Also, Kristen, what made you decide to bedshare with Owen in the first place? I know that they recommend sharing a room with a baby for the first six months, but honestly, I think our kid will be in their own room ASAP. My husband and I sleep miserably to begin with. I couldn't imagine waking up at every little sound my kid made while they slept.

KristenBtobe · October 2010

We don't. Its just been the last couple nights. We co-slept for the first 4 months(he was in a cosleeper next to the bed). Because of nursing and whatnot. He's been in his room the last 2 months with no issue, but when a baby wakes in the middle of the night and you aren't used to that, you kind of do what you have to.

heyemilina · October 2010

Ah. Gotcha. I thought you used a co-sleeper but wasn't sure, and then the mention of bed-sharing made me confused for a minute.

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