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ttgcole
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do you sleep with your door open or closed?
ttgcole
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DH and I have been having this discussion lately. Right now Austin is in our room, evenutally we are going to transfer him to his own room. We sleep with our door shut and locked, my DH is freaked otherwise. We don't have a monitor, although we can get one. I think we should sleep with our door open as well as Austin's, he doesn't agree. What do you do?
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Re: do you sleep with your door open or closed?
We sleep with all the door shut and fans on in every room. I still hear when M gets up or is calling for us without a monitor, but have one for W's room.
Lucy sleeps in her room with the door shut, otherwise the cats go in wake her up. We always sleep with our door open.
Why do you lock your bedroom door? Your house is locked up at night right? That would freak me out and feel like a safety hazard in case of a fire or emergency.
We sleep with our door open and her door closed. We have a doggie that goes in and out of our room at night.
I would probably not be comfortable locking my door if my kiddo was in their room.
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W's door is shut ours is half way open unless we have a "ahem" reason to shut it.
He gets himself up in the middle of the night to pee and often forgets to turn out the light though so that might change and we might start leaving the door shut to our room too.
Ditto.
Our door is always open because our dog sleeps in there and goes in and out. In the spring/summer the girls' doors are shut. We don't use a monitor for the most part...I'll still hear them when they wake up since they aren't far away. In the winter their doors are usually open because we heat the house with a wood stove and otherwise the heat wouldn't reach their rooms. I have found that Jillian will wake up and come into our room if her door is open. I have been woken up mid-dream to a little girl snuggling with me, which is cute although not as conducive to sleep.
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It's interesting that the majority of you sleep with your doors closed. Our door is always open and we've talked about wanting James' door to be left open, too (once he's sleeping in there). Locking the cats out of the nursery overnight never occurred to me, but maybe something to think about if they cause a problem. I think they might be more trouble scratching and crying at a closed door, though.
When I was growing up, all doors were always open (even the bathroom for a while) until we were teenagers. Living alone, I've always kept all doors open. I guess we'll see, but I would worry about not hearing something or not being able to get to J, if necessary. I also use night lights in our bedroom and in the hallway. So, this could be a paranoia thing, too.
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my husband, for various reasons, is paranoid. Our house is locked up tight at night, he's just weird about it. I think in part because someone tried to break in our old house when I was alone. When A is in his own room if he must have the doors shut I will not be ok with him locking the door.
When Jillian was a baby we left her door open. But toddlerhood brought on new worries, and now I'm more worried about what she would do outside her room (escape out the dog door, burn her hand on the wood stove, etc) than what she would do inside her room which is well toddler-proofed.
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I am fairly certain I would be up all night worried the cats would try to get in the crib. Mine are big fans of something warm to sleep against.
We sleep with our door open and Max's door closed.
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We sleep with both of our doors slightly open. We keep A's doors mostly closed until we go to bed and then we open it up. He also has a sound machine that we leave on all night.
The kid's have always slept with their door shut.
Ours is typically open, unless the cats are being pests and then I'll close it so they can't get in.
We live in a tiny 2/1 and always put G to bed with the door open. We watch TV, listen to music, talk, all normal things*. I do put his white noise giraffe on and some lullabies, but they turn off after :30 or so. I made it a point to not really change the level of noise in the house when he sleeps so he would get used to it (no "sshhh, the baby is sleeping"). That and the fact he is a good and must be a deep sleeper - it has never been an issue.
*The only thing that WILL wake him up is dishes clanking and the dog howling (like if she hear a raccoon outside or something).