tommy has been sleeping in his crib at night. i can't really remember when this started, maybe when he was about five months old. he just can't handle sleeping with others. even when he was sleeping on me, if i took him into the tatami room where hiro and sasha were sleeping, he'd fuss and wouldn't sleep. i think for naps i would put him in the crib (where he would be less likely to be disturbed by sasha and hiro shouting and playing) and tried it one night and he just settled down and slept. since he was still waking at night to nurse, i slept upstairs in the bed, alone, and i admit, i'm really missing co-sleeping (yoshi sleeps with hiro and sasha, so they aren't alone.)
last night it started to rain really hard. all the windows were open, so i closed them. tommy is such a light sleeper that i woke him up and he started to cry. he didn't settle down, so i took him to the bed and nursed him. he was sleepy enough to go back to sleep so we slept together in the big bed. until he woke up at five and didn't want to co-sleep any more...
January 18, 2025
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Oh,I love co-sleeping too and it must be so lonely not doing it now:(. But once Tommy doesn't need to nurse any more maybe you can steal Hiro and Sasha back from your DH;)
I liked co-sleeping too, but then one day I woke up and decided I didn't like it anymore. REALLY didn't like it anymore. DD has been in her own room for over a year. DS is still in my bedroom but in his own bed. I am ready to get him out. Actually I would like to throw DH out too and have a room all to myself. HUM? Will have to think about how I can arrange that?
I am not sure how I feel about co-sleeping. I have disussed this with Shun to see what he thought would happen when we had kids and he just had assumed they would sleep with us. When and if I have kids I don`t think I would mind if they slept in the same room as us but I would want them to have their own futon or crib- I am a restless sleeper and move around A LOT so I would be afraid I would squash the child.
It is interesting to read that you miss co-sleeping. I liked reading your views on it! Did you co-sleep with your parents when you were younger?
i never even thought about co-sleeping with my children (before i had any), but here yoshi and i only ever had futons, so it was easy enough to do it. i mean, you're on the floor so you don't have to worry about a baby falling out of bed! i did get a crib from a friend, but it was never in our bedroom, and honestly it would have been a pain to get up from the futon, fetch the baby, nurse him, change his diaper and then put him back in the crib. co-sleeping is really nice in that situation.
i didn't co-sleep with my parents, but i do remember getting up in the wee hours of the morning and going to my parents' bed and getting in beside my mom. i have blogged about that before.
oh, and i should probably add...many women become aware of their children, even when they are asleep. i think there have even been studies done on this. i have always known where my baby is when co-sleeping, i have never rolled over on one, smothered one with my breast or kicked one in my sleep! sometimes a woman isn't as aware as most, but that's pretty rare. and it appears that men aren't nearly as aware, especially asleep, so newborns should not sleep next to their father (which goes against japanese 'tradition', where the youngest sleeps in the middle.) i have had the children sleep next to me until they are strong enough to turn over (both ways) and got a few lonely, 'when can the baby sleep in the middle?' comments from yoshi... lol
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