Christie_M Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 [quote name='Carrie' date='Aug 18 2005, 08:34 AM']Reading the telephone book would put me to sleep! : [right][snapback]688857[/snapback][/right] [/quote] not me I have this brain that pays attention to everything someone says...so I'll be listening to the phone book and not fall asleep! I usually pray the Rosary to go to sleep I don't do it on perpos though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcePrincessKRS Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 [quote name='homeschoolmom' date='Aug 18 2005, 07:43 AM']I could have started this thread the other day... [right][snapback]688780[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Ditto. Adrienne is a night owl. [quote name='jasJis' date='Aug 18 2005, 07:51 AM']Whatever happened to spankings, taking things away, locking the door, etc.? We used to take stuffed animals away, toys, pillows, blankets... My daughter once ended up exhausted sleeping on the floor. We didn't have bed problems for a month. It's tough to be a parent, but we volunteered for the job. I remembered once, when she was about 7, she wouldn't stay in her bed so we made her get up and sit in the bathroom with all the lights on and the fan on for an hour. She learned it's boring to stay up. [right][snapback]688783[/snapback][/right] [/quote] We do all of that except locking the door. Ever since she flipped herself out of her crib and broke her arm we have had her in a regular bed---she can get out more easily, but at least we don't have to worry about more broken bones. When she sleeps in her room I prefer to keep the doors open so I can hear her easily, she still wakes up wanting a drink alot of the time, and I am a fairly deep sleeper, if the doors were shut I wouldn't hear a thing. [quote name='inDEED' date='Aug 18 2005, 10:35 AM']That sounds right... I've heard that the worst thing you can do is allow your child to sleep with you...they'll never want to sleep alone... [right][snapback]688858[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Not necessarily. Its easy enough to wean them out of the habit. Right now Adrienne still sleeps in our room most of the time (she's 2) but on her own little bed. Genevieve's crib is in our room as well, she sleeps through the night now (seriously at least 7 hours at a stretch) and then waked up to nurse and sleeps in bed with us for a couple more hours, sometimes I put her back in her bed, she could care less. lol [quote name='homeschoolmom' date='Aug 18 2005, 10:57 AM']We have sort of a pseudo-family bed. Our children start out in their own beds (usually-- sometimes they fall asleep in ours). They can come in to our bed if they should wake up in the night. Usually, they don't. We have noticed that as they get older they don't come in as often. Ie, they learn to "sleep alone.' (as if that's an important life skill)... [right][snapback]688895[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Yup, thats sort of how we are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 (edited) [quote name='homeschoolmom' date='Aug 18 2005, 10:57 AM']We have sort of a pseudo-family bed. Our children start out in their own beds (usually-- sometimes they fall asleep in ours). They can come in to our bed if they should wake up in the night. Usually, they don't. We have noticed that as they get older they don't come in as often. Ie, they learn to "sleep alone.' (as if that's an important life skill)... [right][snapback]688895[/snapback][/right] [/quote] I had 3 babies in 5 years. We started the babies sleeping and nursing with us. Made the 2 AM and 6 am feedings a breeze, since I didn't have to get out of bed. When the boys got bigger we moved to 2 big matttresses pushed together about a foot off the floor in their room. We laid down with them and when they were asleep we moved off to our own room. When the third one came along, she slept in our room til she was weaned and ready for her own room. She also had a double bed mattress on the floor. We still had thr rest of the house available. Because they had the big beds if they had a bad night, we could go to them and still had enough room to sleep. And the mattresses were great to wrestle and build castles and pretend space ships on when it was too cold to go out to play. When my husband abandoned me and the kids they all ended up in my bedroom every single night for months. Edited August 18, 2005 by cmotherofpirl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcePrincessKRS Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Thats pretty much how I did it with Adrienne, Cmom, but since Genevieve actually sleeps all night (and has from a REALLY early age--and she's only 5 months now) she doesn't sleep in our bed as much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 My daughter moved out much earlier than the boys did as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Cmom, your method sounds really great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prose Posted August 18, 2005 Author Share Posted August 18, 2005 Anna comes to bed with us if she is inconsolable, which isn't very often... Maybe once every few weeks. Otherwise I can normally let her wake up, cry a bit, and then she drifts back to sleep. I don't think I would punish her for waking up. It isn't her fault. If someone punished me everytime I woke up (especially since I have been pregnant), I would certainly not like it. Besides, I find it comforting to cuddle with her every so often. She is like a really warm, really big teddy bear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcePrincessKRS Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Oh, we don't punish Adrienne for waking up. Sometimes we have to punish her for not going to bed in the first place and repeated getting out of bed. She gets warned, and then if the bad behavior continues she gets a spank. I don't mind the cuddles and snuggles before bed, its when she KNOWS she is supposed to be in bed and keeps getting up. She won't cry and then fall back to sleep, I have to get her a drink or she will climb all over me, scream like a banshee, or cry till she throws up (which is why I never tried the "cry it out" method). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christie_M Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 My sister can't go to sleep unless she has the raido on...then she'll fall asleep. but I can't sleep because of the reason in the other post! other times she is too scared to sleep, so I will give her my hand and she will fall asleep-usually very fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 And while we're on the subject.... Why in the world do children insist on sleeping crosswise on the bed? No matter how many times I move them, they always go back to sticking their feet in my back... Good thing they aren't very tall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marielapin Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 [quote name='homeschoolmom' date='Aug 18 2005, 12:45 PM']And while we're on the subject.... Why in the world do children insist on sleeping crosswise on the bed? No matter how many times I move them, they always go back to sticking their feet in my back... Good thing they aren't very tall. [right][snapback]689139[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Dominic does the same thing. I was against sleeping with my kids at first. Then I had a baby that wouldn't stay asleep. I ended up falling asleep with him and found out it wasn't so bad. In fact, him sleeping with us was the only way WE could get sleep. Dominic wakes up anywhere between 2 and 12 times a night screaming. He never physically wakes up - he is always like sleep walking - it is more like night terrors. I am hoping he will grow out of them. Jared did (and he was worse as an infant). Dr. Sears advocates the family bed. It has been proven to be very beneficial and if you plan on doing ecological breastfeeding it actually goes right along with it (it is actually one of the "rules"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prose Posted August 18, 2005 Author Share Posted August 18, 2005 Holy cow! Does every child do the sideways thing? Anna is exactly the same. In our queen sized bed, my hubby sometimes leaves to sleep on the couch while she kicks me over to the last 4 inches of the bed!!! Silly kids! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marielapin Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 [quote name='prose' date='Aug 18 2005, 01:54 PM']Holy cow! Does every child do the sideways thing? Anna is exactly the same. In our queen sized bed, my hubby sometimes leaves to sleep on the couch while she kicks me over to the last 4 inches of the bed!!! Silly kids! [right][snapback]689246[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Dominic will either put his head on my chest or his feet up there. One night I woke up and his head was laying across my neck - that hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 [quote name='marielapin' date='Aug 18 2005, 03:07 PM']Dominic will either put his head on my chest or his feet up there. One night I woke up and his head was laying across my neck - that hurt. [right][snapback]689265[/snapback][/right] [/quote] I woke once to discover my then seven year old and my then four year old were snuggled up on either side of me and my arms were completely up over my head, as they had nowhere else to go. Ow. And yes, they pretty much all like to make Hs out of their parents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prose Posted August 18, 2005 Author Share Posted August 18, 2005 I can't imagine never sharing a bed with my kids. I like the bonding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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