Where does your child(ren) sleep at night?

[Tink123]

I ask this because DD4 sleeps in what we think are strange places... the closet, (I did too when I was little, so I see where she gets it), in a tent, refrigerator box, in the corner with her bed blocking the third side. She has the best bed in the house, the only mattress that was not a hand me down, DH and I try to sleep in her bed sometimes and we get kicked out of her room.

So, with all that said, where does your child sleep at night?

 

[babytrees]

My two daughters(13 & 9) sleep together on a single bed been doing it for more than 5 years...we can seperate them every once in awhile...if they're sick they do sleep apart....youngest will be devastated(oldest too I think) if we ever could afford for them to have seperate rooms. But we have been blessed these two girls hardly fight, have their own language, they are like twins seperated by four years(exactly!!)

It seems to me that your daughter is looking for a harder space to sleep on...that and looking for the comfort of being surrounded(like a crib). Could it be that bed is just plain to big for her? Did she fall off from it in the middle of the night? Eventually she more than likely will love that bed and sleep in it!!

 

[Princess Glenda]

More than once or twice a week DS ends up on the floor beside our bed. He brings in a pillow and a blanket and sleeps soooo soundly. Every now and then I complain and get tired of walking over him on my way to the bathroom in the middle of the night. BUT...most of the time I don't because the years are going by quickly and it won't be long before he is grown. DD ends up in the middle of our bed most nights. Sometimes I joke that we really don't need 3 bedrooms!

 

[Alice's Mom]

This is a good topic for me...my daughter has slept in my bed with me since day one, she is almost 5 and getting her own room and bed for the first time this Monday. She was born 5 weeks early and had GERD so bad, it would come out of her nose and she couldn't breathe, I was so nervous that it would come up while I was asleep and I wouldn't hear her that I put her next to me. Thankfully it went away on its own at about 5 months, but by then we were use to sleeping with each other.

It's definitely time for her own bed though, she has been sleeping perpindicular to me and kicked my face last night.

I hope this goes smoothly, she has been a dream when it comes to change so I hope the trend continues

 

[susykt4]

We moved DS 2yrs, 9 months from his crib to a twin bed about 2 weeks ago. DS could push kitchen chairs around and climb onto the table or counters when he was 7 months old but he NEVER climbed out of the crib one time at naptime or bedtime (though he could easily climb in and out when playing with his sister.) So far (knock on wood) he will not get out of the twin bed after naps or in the morning until we go in and get him.

I "finally" moved him out of his crib because I wanted to get him completely out of naptime and bedtime diapers, but this staying in bed until we get him thing is too good to not take advantage of!

 

[txgirl]

Not me but a friend whose son climbs out of his bed at night and sleeps on his floor and covers up with a rug. It looks quite pathetic but he loves it!!!!

 

[Becky2005]

I "finally" moved him out of his crib because I wanted to get him completely out of naptime and bedtime diapers, but this staying in bed until we get him thing is too good to not take advantage of!

WOW! I thought my kids were the only ones who did that!

So far, all 3 of the older kids (the 1 year old is still in the crib) - NEVER got out of their bed when waking up after nap/morning. LOL! They would always yell "Mommy" or I would hear them playing (just as if they were in the crib). It was great at first (and I LOVE it for the transition) but after a while, I did have to convince them that they were quite capable of getting out of bed on their own and they don't have to yell for me. I'm not complaining about it - much better than worrying about them wandering the house in the middle of the night or something. I'm hoping I can go 4 for 4 on that.

My kids pretty much sleep in their beds but I know DD has ended up on the floor before, DS-8 is on the top of a bunk bed, so thankfully, he pretty much sleeps wherever he falls asleep at on the bed.

Although, because he shares with the 5 year old, I may have to change things around - the original plan was once the baby got old enough, we would rotate the boys. The little one take over the 5 year old's bottom bunk, the 5 year old move to the top bunk and the oldest boy get his own room. DS-8 was NOT thrilled when we mentioned it to him, he doesn't like to be alone at night (doesn't matter that for 6 years of his life, he slept perfectly fine in his own room by himself! I guess he's just used to having Ds-5 around now and think he has a slumber party every night - I'm usually telling them to hush!)

 

[jacksmom]

My ds(8) gets out of his bed most nights in the middle of the night and goes downstairs to the family room and sleeps on the floor! We can't figure out why? When we question him about it he states he just likes to!

 

[Becky2005]

I ask this because DD4 sleeps in what we think are strange places... the closet, (I did too when I was little, so I see where she gets it), in a tent, refrigerator box, in the corner with her bed blocking the third side. She has the best bed in the house, the only mattress that was not a hand me down, DH and I try to sleep in her bed sometimes and we get kicked out of her room.

So, with all that said, where does your child sleep at night?

Mine don't do that but good to know I'm not the only one with children that go into odd places!

My boys like to go in the linen closet and play. They even close the door (especially if they have something that lights up)! Unfortunately, I can't use the bottom 2 shelves in my closet because of this. I have no idea how 2 of them fit in there but they do on occassion (and it's the older boys, so not small like the 1 year old).

 

[barkley]

my son (8) is a snuggleholic and has the best "mom-dar" on the planet. no matter where he or i fall asleep i can always count on waking up next to him. if he falls asleep in his bed, at some point during the night he will wake up just enough to come to our room and crawl in with us, if i ultimatly move to a couch (he's very small for his age, but boy can the boy stretch out and hog a bed ) he will end up next to me at some point. i have moved as many as 4 times (bed to sofa to sofa to his bed) in one night and still will wake up with him cuddled up next to me. this is a kid who slept in a crib and a bed when he was younger like a pro! it's not a major problem for us.

my daughter (when she was a little one) could only fall asleep in one of 2 places-her car seat and her crib. no matter how exausted she was, she would not nod off on the sofa or a bed or anyplace else. many was the time i wished she could fall asleep somewhere else. she finaly broke this habit on her first trip to disneyland, she was so exhausted at the end of her first day she fell asleep on the tram back to the hotel .

 

[jndmommy]

Ds(who will be 2 in Sept.) has basically always slept on the couch. We moved him back to the crib several times as an infant then eventually gave up. Even now, he still leaves his room and comes back to the couch. That stinks for us, b/c one of us is stuck on the loveseat then incase he needs us for something. Dd (4) will sleep in her bed most of the time. Her problem is bedtime though. She is a night owl....

 

[BbearRosenfeld]

Our daughter just turned 2 last Saturday, she is now sleeping in her toddler bed, she just started it at her nap time yesterday and did it last night and now is sleeping in it again for her nap today. We are blessed, she is a very good girl and never fought us on any transitions like this or getting off the bottle and never even wanted a pacifier. We had her sleeping in her crib at 2 weeks old and she just made the switch from it to her toddler bed.
I know my second child won't be this easy!

 

[jndmommy]

Bbear, it was so nice reading about your dd. That's exactly how our dd is/was. If there was such a thing as the perfect baby/todder she was it. Then along came ds. What a whirlwind..... He is nonstop, nothing is easy with him. Dh & I always joke, thank God he wasn't first. I come from a family of all girls. He is overwhelming for me at times. It's nice to look back on times, like yours. Enjoy while you can....

 

[fitzperry]

LOL! Frankly, I don't care where everyone sleeps, as long as they sleep!

When our second dd was a newborn and still sleeping in our room, we were having trouble convincing dd#1, who was about 3.5yo, to go to sleep in her room. Naturally, it turned into a big power struggle, and one night I heard her out in the hall. I waited a few minutes, then went to check on her, and she had fallen asleep in a little alcove outside her bedroom door that looks out over our foyer. She had her pillow, blanket and Elmo in there with her. Over the next several nights, she piled a bunch of books and toys out there and slept there quite contentedly for several weeks. Now she's six and goes to sleep in her room but most nights ends up on the floor in our room by my side of the bed in her sleeping bag. Like I said, I don't much care where everyone sleeps, as long as they sleep!

 

[Tink123]

This is a good topic for me...my daughter has slept in my bed with me since day one, she is almost 5 and getting her own room and bed for the first time this Monday. She was born 5 weeks early and had GERD so bad, it would come out of her nose and she couldn't breathe, I was so nervous that it would come up while I was asleep and I wouldn't hear her that I put her next to me. Thankfully it went away on its own at about 5 months, but by then we were use to sleeping with each other.

It's definitely time for her own bed though, she has been sleeping perpindicular to me and kicked my face last night.

I hope this goes smoothly, she has been a dream when it comes to change so I hope the trend continues

What is GERD? Just curious.

 

[Alice's Mom]

What is GERD? Just curious.

Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, like acid reflux...its basically spit up, but to such an extreme that food doesn't stay down at all, common in preemies and usually goes away on its own. It wasn't so bad for us, but for some it is so bad it can require surgery.

My poor little thing gained hardly any weight, when it went away she packed on the pounds and is now a perfectly normal and healthy almost 5 year old.

 

[Tink123]

Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, like acid reflux...its basically spit up, but to such an extreme that food doesn't stay down at all, common in preemies and usually goes away on its own. It wasn't so bad for us, but for some it is so bad it can require surgery.

My poor little thing gained hardly any weight, when it went away she packed on the pounds and is now a perfectly normal and healthy almost 5 year old.

Okay, not so good wiht the abriviations... she would have slept with me too! I am glad she is doing well now!

 

[tracilicious]

In our bed. Ds (2.5) sleeps by dh or in his sidecared crib and dd (8 weeks) sleeps by me. Wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[Texan Mouseketeer]

My DS went through the sleeping on the floor period, too! Shortly after we converted his crib to a toddler day bed, we'd find him underneath it. There's a funny Christmas morning video where we went to go wake him up and had to get him out from underneath the bed.
Never sure why he did it, but he stopped after awhile.

 

[devotedchristian]

DS (2) sleeps with Dh and I. We aren't sure when we will transition to his room in a toddler bed.

But we love snuggling with him for now.