So it is 11:00pm right now and I am wide awake. I put my little guy to bed in his crib for the first time tonight. I find myself sitting here waiting for him to wake up, rather than trying to rest myself. It is funny to me because before I had Lucas I used to make comments about people who did not put their babies to sleep in their cribs, now I am that person and I completely understand how they feel. I feel like he is so far away and that something might happen and I would never even know (even though his monitor is right next to me). It is kind of sad too because usually he needs to be by me to sleep, I feel like he is getting big already =( What is worse is that Abe is not here, he is playing soccer, so I am here to worry all by myself. Hopefully this will just get easier as time goes on! ~Valarie
Hey Val, you are so not alone! I was that mom who did not put her baby in a crib too! I loved sleeping with her! It was so easy to feed her and soothe her at night. Solana didn't take a bottle so it was all me to take care of feedings...co-sleeping was right for us.
ReplyDeleteBtw, the idea of babies sleeping in their own cribs was really only introduced 200 years ago. America remains the only place in the world where placing a child in his own bed in his own room is the norm...just in case you were wondering!
Mimi