Attachment Parenting

Options.

What are my options here?

We have bed rails on our bed and ds still managed to crawl over them and fall off the bed before I came in there. He cannot sleep in our bed anymore, it is too dangerous now that he's mobile. DH isn't willing to put our bed on the floor.

I'm currently sleeping on a palette in ds' room, while he's on a crib mattress next to me. This is not comfortable.

He will not sleep in a crib by himself, even though I know he's safest there.
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Re: Options.

  • DH can either deal or you can get a twin mattress for his room. Hes going to need a big boy bed eventually.

    ETA I mean the twin bed for you on the ground while he sleeps next you or with you. He will need a twin eventually for his own room.

     

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    DH can either deal or you can get a twin mattress for his room. Hes going to need a big boy bed eventually.

    ETA I mean the twin bed for you on the ground while he sleeps next you or with you. He will need a twin eventually for his own room.

     

    This.  Either DH deals with a floor bed in your(plural) bedroom, or you guys get a real floor bed in LO's room.  (FWIW, we have our old queen mattress in DD's room on the floor, and that's where I generally sleep with her.)

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  • We just went through this and we decided on a floor bed in the baby's room. She won't sleep in a crib either but at six months she is getting too mobile for our raised bed. I have given away our crib and in its place I've put our full sized guest mattress on her floor.

    It is working out great for us. I nurse dd to sleep around 7:30pm then I can get up and do stuff around the house and go to bed with dh. DD usually wakes up around midnight and I go and sleep with her the rest of the night. Initially I didn't like that DH and I were sleeping in separate beds but since we get to fall asleep together without lo it actually has been really nice.
  • Like pp's, a twin bed on the floor in your son's room. You can sleep with him there. You can get him used to sleeping on his own in there. He can get up/down without hurting himself (although my DH would be quick to point out that this is also a negative). 

    Another idea is a mattress on the floor next to your bed. (I like having lots of options.) With the floor bed in our room, I can still get sleep in my own bed and respond to DS easily. DS will start in his own twin bed and then often migrate to this bed at 2-3am.

    FWIW, this setup has also become a gymnastics/jumping zone for DS. Super fun, but a little terrifying. :) 

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  • imagekbruington:
    If DH won't budge, and I don't think you should ever make your partner do something if they don't really want to, why can't he sleep in the crib? You obviously think he's safest there so is that an option?
    He screams when I put him down in it, and will not calm down.

    Thanks everyone! I put a twin mattress on the floor next to him. Eventually I'd like for him to sleep by himself in there, but for now this will work.
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