Kat - I hate to break it to you but this LO has NEVER moved off my bladder. It has actually gotten worse as I have gone further along. I have learned to control it with my liquid intake towards the end of the day. He will just pounce on my bladder or kick on my bladder. It's the oddest feeling ... I suddenly just HAVE TO GO but never really do, you know?? On the flip side I have no rib pain or no problem breathing, so that's something.
I am with you on that one! This kid is constantly punching my bladder, and honestly I don't even think she's that low. My others did kick my ribs more so I guess she is overall lower, but they were able to see her head just fine in yesterday's ultrasound, whereas with my son he was so low and wedged into my pelvis that they couldn't see his head and had to flip me on this table so my head was lower than my feet to try to get gravity to move him up a bit.
And I am also miserable at night, with every movement just hurting me for some reason. Every time I wake up to pee I hope I'll start contracting or my water will break just so I can end this misery.
Tarzan - I know I mentioned before that my kids share a room, but also, many of our friends kids do and they are boy/girl combos as well. It's just part of living inside the city I guess, in that no one here really has enough bedrooms to house all their kids individually. When we move this summer (which is now set in stone as my husband mailed in his contract last night
) my kids can each have their own bedroom as we'll be able to afford an actual house (as opposed to the townhouse we're in now or the rowhouses that line our street and most streets in the city) that will have 4 bedrooms, but my daughter has already stated she is NOT sleeping alone. So she obviously likes sharing a room with her brother (though she has said she'd rather share with the baby when we move, but I think that's cause of the novelty that she'll be new more than anything) and has definitely not been harmed by it at any rate. My son is too little to really bring it up on his own, but I'll ask him tonight and see what he says.
And regarding my friend's kids, 1 family's daughter asked to move into her own room when she was 10yo and another when the daughter turned 9yo. In both cases the girls were older which is why I only mention their ages, but both have little brothers. Another family's oldest (also a girl) started asking around 7yo. They added a room onto their rowhouse, put the youngest in there, moved the oldest to the baby's old room, and the son stayed where he was. She is now 8yo and starts off in her own room each night but ends up in the top bunk in her brother's room every night.
And one other family has 3 girls, all in 1 room. They do have another bedroom, but opted to keep that a playroom and have all the kids sleep in the same room. At a birthday party their youngest, who was 3.5yo at the time, was talking to another little kid who said she didn't have any siblings and the 3.5yo's response to that was "So you have to sleep all alone at night!?! No sisters to stay in your room with you!?"
So my point is don't stress too much about it. Sure, ideally they'll both have their own spaces, but it doesn't always work out right away and sometimes it seems to work out better.
BabyTigger - Our baby doesn't have a room yet either and won't till she's a good 6 months old and we move. She'll be sleeping basically like you described, in the cosleeper bassinet next to our bed. We have a crib and part of it is here, part of it in NJ at my mom's, but I am not setting it up here only to take it down in a couple of months.
Locolala - I agree, that is probably the worst craving ever! I did have a think for the Starbucks sausage, egg, and cheese sandwiches in the beginning and now when I see that sausage patty I feel ill at the thought of the grease!
I need to send out a bunch of emails to parents from the school regarding various room parent issues so I should get cracking. Figure I should settle all the class stuff now, rather than have this kid and then totally forget everything I have to do.
