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Bed bug

By bleu7102
Created 03/28/2008 - 7:23pm

No, not the nasty kind. Well, I suppose drool, spit-up, and stinky diapers are nasty, but anyways. My babe officially invaded our bed last night. Now, I've never been opposed to co-sleeping by any means, was just something that we chose not to do. Key words being "we chose", but apparently Roo has his own plans. I don't think that has been his main intention of waking up everynight and not wanting to go back to sleep in his crib, but it is now the outcome. Silly guy was sleeping fine throughout the night in his crib for a while, no problem. But the past few weeks, he'll wake up anywhere between 12-3 and not want to stay in his crib. He'll go back to sleep like an angel in my arms, but when I put him down his eyes will pop open. I've been relying on the magical baby swing to put him back out, and he'll stay there the whole night fine, but I don't feel good about it. We went out of town over the weekend, and we had to live without said swing for a few nights. When he would wake up we'd just put him in the bed with us and he'd fall back asleep. So last night I said fuck it, and brought him in bed with us. Mama's gotta get up for work, dammit, no more messing with this swing crap. He slept the rest of the night, woke up kinda early, but not too bad. So I have a feeling he'll end up in bed with us for a while. Which is okay, really. We'll continue to put him in his bed, and when he wakes up just transfer him over and hopefully continue the night peacefully.

One of the main reasons I chose not to co-sleep from the beginning is the fact that I like to have our bed to us. I mean, let's face it, I like to snuggle up with DH, fall asleep touching, get it on when we feel like it. I wanted to keep it as "our" place, if that makes sense. But with putting him in his own bed to begin with, that kinda takes care of that, the first part of the night can be our time. By the time babe comes to our bed, we're half asleep anyways, we don't care at that point.
I'm also a bit concerned with rolling over on him or hitting him with an arm or elbow. He's 10 months now, I'm not as concerned about smothering with pillows and blankets anymore, he's old enough to move things off of his face, but of course it is still a concern. This is just new for me. I am kinda happy about it, I like having him so close. We'll just see how it goes.


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