Baby V seems to be taking to her crib.
I told her she'd like sleeping away from her mother, who has inexplicable stinky hot flashes all of the time, so the bed reeks like a junior high locker room. Oh, and it couldn't be pleasant, sharing a bed with me, when I suffer from extreme postpartum paranoia and shake her awake several times a night because her breathing is too relaxed.
Hub-D can attest: I am no fun to sleep with.
I come by it honestly, as very few of the married men and women in my family share a bed, or even a bedroom. We're mean sleepers -- we're sleepwalking cover-stealers with vivid dreams. We kick. We snore. We must have some other redeeming qualities to keep people married to us, because co-sleeping is NOT one of them.
So Baby V is wise to find other quarters. I remember that Chebbles couldn't wait to get the heck out of bed with me. Since she was three months old, she has successfully shared a bed with me exactly twice, and by absolute necessity. She issued a big old "NO THANK YOU" to co-sleeping.
Unlike the children of normal mothers, Chebbles does NOT come begging to join me in my hothouse hellbed, she knows the score.
And now Baby V has discovered the cool peace of her own crib, that solid maple masterpiece. She doesn't sleep of long stretches yet, as she's best lulled by the boob in the end. But she digs it in there, and perhaps we'll all get better sleep in the coming weeks.
Oh, except for Hub-D, who is resigned to returning to his marital bedstead. It's no secret that he's enjoyed a quiet respite from me while shacked in the guest room these past months.
7 comments:
You SURE we aren't related? Mr. H enjoyed his respite from my thrashing, tossing, sleeping patterns too. I don't MEAN to.... I'm glad Baby V likes her fancy crib. It will come as no surprise that Chispa dissed co-sleeping too. That and I couldn't sleep. I developed freaky insomnia inducing bionic hearing once I had kids. Maybe we aren't related. You don't want that. Trust me. That is one cute baby!!!!
she is so adorable.
ANYWAY!
It probably comes as no surprise to you that I had to kick Z out of our bedroom when he was just a few weeks old. Across the hall seemed far away, but even from my room, I could hear his loud LOUD grunting. He was the weirdest sounding sleeping infant I ever heard. I had to get many assurances from the MD that he was perfectly fine, but the sound just got under my skin. Thank God it ended at some point...
Oh yeah, I'm no fun either. Our guy has been in his crib since day one and he likes it that way!
Further proof our children are related! E has slept in bed with me a total of 2 times in her life - once in the hospital and once last xmas when she learned to climb out of the pack n play!
AND, my husband has slept on the floor since I was 8 mos pregnant and every night since. I have a king sized bed all to myself!
GM and Carrie: I'm not sure we're not related, but I know our daughters are!
And Marz, yes, I'm not shocked to hear about the grunting.
And Starfish, I'm glad I'm not the only mother of a kid who loves his/her crib more than her company!
I am starting to work on getting the Punky to her own crib. We're mastering naptime right now but hopefully by the end of May we'll have the bed to ourselves again. Maybe. Let's be real here... it is so much easier with her in bed with me.
Did Baby V. get her hair styled at a Vidal Sasson salon or did you use "product" on it--as a guy friend of mine calls it? It sure looks good and with that turned up nose she is about as beautiful an infant as I have seen since the Chebs was that age. I would put her (and Chebbles) up against the Jolie-Pitt and Cruise babies any day! I wish I could get on a plane to CA tonight, I want to hold that baby and watch the Chebs ride her bike so baaaaaaad it hurts!
--GR (stuck in the "hamper")
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