cosleeping rant

yeah, I've seen these little small basket kinda thingys at the store that are for cosleeping. They're great if you're freaked out about rolling over, like fallen fairy said...

 

I was watching this show this morning called "the mom show," and all these moms sit around and talk about how to raise kids and stuff. Today, the subect of sleeping came up, and the one mom said, "no, there's not monsters under your bed, they're all under mine, so go back to your room."
Poor kid.....

 

That's just sad. I hate when people are cruel to chilren. Everyone should read "For Their Own Good" by Alice (something, I'll find it) It is a fantastic treatise on abuse, cruelty and how people put children's needs last, and how it effects society for the worst, and damages children for life.

 

wow, please feel better!!
and yes, i know all about the hair pulling ,fingers poking my eyes and my nose, little bed hog. skylie slept with us till she was about 13 or 14 monthsAND she is a BIG Girl!! 95th percentile for hieght, only 75th for wieght (and bekieve me she eats well) when i finally had enough of those long arms and legs kicking me and little finger picking at me, we moved her into a toddler bed pushed up right against our bed~like a little extention of our bed! she took to it, i think she welcomed the extra space to strech out! Now at 18 months we are expecting a nother baby soon , and bought her a twin size bed in her very own room. i thought there would be HELL TO PAY. BUT she loves it! my husband and i are more broken up about then her. I miss that closeness, but it does feel good to get more sleep, and i always bring her into our bed in the morning, for a little more sleep or some snuggles. dont worry~everything works itself out in due time. AND make sure to take some time for yourself to get better!

 

lol, now she's crawling all over us, not just rolling. We have lined our bed with pillows as well, now that she just keeps crawling over the edge, so that there's no disantce for her to fall. She crawls on our faces, our legs, your bellies. But it's cute as hell when she finds a comfortable position on top of your belly or something and passes back out again!
I think that I will feel more rested when she decides when she wants her own bed, but I know I'm going to miss it so bad. Even the nights where she's passed out like a dead person and we put her in the crib right by our bed, I feel soooooo much guilt for her being all by herself in that cage. (when she's awake, she even holds her hands on the bars like she's in jail ) But there's nights when I just can't handle wrestling in my sleep and I need a couple good zzzs....but I only do that if she's been asleep for a long time first.
I've also been woken up at 2am when she's in the crib, and she's smaking her head against the rails, or this little ocean wonders fish tank we have on there. oy. all the more reason I prefer her in our bed.

 

I'd like to get ahold of that book and read it myself. Sometimes i catch myself getting upset about something that is really not her fault, and I know that, but I want to actually read something about what it really does to these kids. generally when I do that, I have a better understanding of the effect of me getting upset about something I shouldn't be when I read something that tells me point blank what my behavior is doing to her.
That just made me sound really bad, but I'm being honest. I get mad a little too easy over stupid things, and I want to really get that under control.

 

Skye likes to sleep sideways acroos the bed with me balanced on one egde and mama balanced on the other. Of course the dog has to lay at my feet, she couldn't lay by skye, who leaves a big space in the middle of the bed.