Where does your child(ren) sleep at night?

[Kilted_Yank]

Our daughter sleeps in her own bed, and stays there (she is 6), but when she was a little one, she often slept on the floor next to our bed.

It got to the point where we kept her inflatable travel bed set up for here to come in in the middle of the night.

We never sent her back to her own bed... we figured if it made her feel safe and secure, it was just fine.

She grew out of it last year... but Ihave to tell you, it was darn cute to find her there in the mornings.

 

[MandM-Mom]

My dd4 sleeps very soundly in her FireTruck bed. DD18 mths just started sleeping in her toddler bed last month and yells mamamammmamama when she wakes up. We put a baby gate over her door opening so that she can't roam the house but still don't have to shut her door to her room.

DD4 did go through the sleep everywhere but the bed stage, but luckily that has worn away. Her favorite place was the hall way right outside her bedroom door, her and every doll she owned would be set up in the hallway when we got up in the morning. It was cute.

For all of you that said your children sleep in your rooms or beds, do your husbands mind. Does it bother you. I think it would drive me crazy to not get anytime away for even a bit while I sleep. My children both slept in our room in a bassinet while they were newborns, but as soon as that stage ended they were off to there own rooms and I used the baby monitors. Me and my husband usually use the time right before bed to do about the only talking we get in without mommy Mommy! or Daddy Daddy! Its basically the only time we have a free minute to wind down. How do you have any couple time, do you have another time set aside for your spouse to talk and visit. Its great to see how other families juggle life, kids marriage work.....

 

[devotedchristian]

For all of you that said your children sleep in your rooms or beds, do your husbands mind.

No, DH does not mind. In fact, he prefers it this way. We get time to each other when DS goes to sleep.

Since DS is the only child, it's easier for us to have lots of downtime.

 

[Zoesmama03]

Currently with us. But its only temporary. I will wean her back to her own bed after we get moved but right now we staying with family awaiting surgery for dh before our move.

She has been in a twin bed since 19 months and sleeps all night there for the most part. Once or twice a month she may come to our bed in early morning hours.

DD never got out of her crib but I'm certain she was trying as her leg would be stuck up to her knee in the bars. I checked the width and they are exactly where they should have been. She got so bruised up that I pulled her mattress out on the floor one night and laid with her told her it was okay this was her bed now and she cried a bit and I went back in laid down with her and she went to sleep. After 2 nights I moved it back up on the crib frame converted to toddler bed and a week later she was in her twin on her own at 19 months. Seems early but she was ready.

 

[disneymom225]

In theory, she sleeps in her crib. Often, she is in our bed. She goes through phases where she sleeps in our room for a week or two at a time--then she'll go a month in her crib. She likes to be next to something--whether it's the side of the crib or daddy--she likes that feeling of being against something. Odd? Not sure--she's our only...

 

[disneymom225]

For all of you that said your children sleep in your rooms or beds, do your husbands mind. Does it bother you. I think it would drive me crazy to not get anytime away for even a bit while I sleep. How do you have any couple time, do you have another time set aside for your spouse to talk and visit. Its great to see how other families juggle life, kids marriage work.....

DD goes to sleep in her crib at about 7:30ish--so DH and I have time then to ourselves. If she comes into our bed--it's usually not until later--11:30 or later, so we've had plenty of couple time. DH usually goes to bed by about 9:30PM--always has and wakes up early so it's not a big deal to have her in bed.

 

[Huntava]

I don't know the exact words for GERD, but it means reflux, when what they have eaten or had to drink backs up into the throat or out. You commonly hear about it in some adults, but some babies get it to.

 

[holden]

Our DD sleeps very soundly in her bed, but one night when we went in to check on her (we always do before we go to bed) she wasn't there. We looked in our room and the other two (unused) bedrooms, but she was nowhere to be found. We stared to panic - looking in all the closets, bathroom tub, etc. We finally found her fast asleep under her bed. It was so funny! DH gently pulled her out and put her back in bed. She slept throught the whole thing. She hasn't done that since. We had a great laugh that night!

 

[PattnFmly]

Both our DS's have twin beds and share a room. They go to bed in their own beds and go to sleep there. But in the middle of the night all bets are off! I almost always wake up with one or the other of them in bed with me. DH works nights so he's not there to sleep - there's plenty of room! Sometimes the two boys will be in the same twin bed. I think when they wake up at night they're lonely and just look for snuggles! The other night when my 4yo climbed in my bed, I asked him if he was ok or if he'd had a bad dream or anything and he said no, he just wanted to love me! It was great!

 

[Bellefan66]

My youngest,DD is 9. My DH has to work nights from time to time. When that happends, DD cuddles with Me,and I cherish it. Oldest DD reminds me often,"Mom,she's not a baby anymore",but to me she will ALWAYS be my baby!

 

[lorli]

Our dd (4) went from craddle in our room till 2 months to a crib in the nursery, she kept kicking it apart, and it was a good craddle. Then at about 22 months she went into a twin bunk bed, on the bottom. We didn't have time to get her her own bed and these were hanging around for guests' children. She was climbing out of the crib but I was pregnant and delivered 11 weeks early (no time). We recently moved her to a new full bed and made a big production out of it. Her room is completely Disney themed, each wall has different groups of characters and she absolutely adores Tinkerbell. She has a new Mickey Mouse headboard and new Tink sheets and comforter set, with a flying Tink above her bed and a pink canopy too. We wanted her to be excited and love her room. She has never slept in our bed and now loves her room so much I don't think she will either.

 

[PatsGirl]

Both of my children were moved from bassinette in my room to crib in their own once they slept through the night (12 weeks or so) to make nursing every 2 hours, or was that all night long , easier on me. BUT, and its a big but, both (they are 7 years apart so separately) started sleeping with me at about age 4 when the nightmares started taking place. I was able to move my son back to his own room when my daughter was born but DD,8, is still coming in around 2 a.m. I've tried everything -- a bed next to mine on the floor, sleeping on her floor (which did work but how long do I want to do that ), rewards, etc.

She has no problem sleeping in her room as long as someone is in there with her, a friend or cousin say. Her biggest complaint is that all three of us are on different floors and she is on the first floor very close to the front door. We live in the woods and I keep telling her not to worry but... I am upstairs on the second level and my DS, 15, has a room in our finished basement, complete with playroom, etc.

I am a single mother and have always been with the exception of the first year of both their lives so that is not an issue (well, it is an issue but that another's thread ) -- I keep telling my daughter that I'm going to marry the first that knocks on our door and then she'll either have to sleep in her own room or move out!

Brenda