Cel’s Blog

When Sebastian was born we had the idea (silly though) that he would fall asleep at night and in his own bed, and let us sleep too. Wrong! After the first two weeks of his life and trying to sleep train him we realized we needed to cosleep, we needed him in our bed right between Alfredo and I, just as much as he needed us.

Sebastian no longer sleeps with us on a regular basis. Ocassionaly he asks to climb on bed and we let him. There will be one day that he won’t ask us anymore. That will be a sad day. So we cherish today. I love having them close. Who doesn’t love little fingers poking your nose at night. Lol.

I didn’t do it with my first at first. We thought he’d sleep in his own room/bed, but that’s completely unrealistic when a baby us 100% breastfed. There’s just no way I was going to get out of my bed/room, walk in the dark, grab baby, feed, put baby back to sleep and go back to my bed. Believe me I tried but after two weeks we realized why the tribes/Indians etc sleep in one big room in the floor with the babies next to them. They knew for a long time what’s right. It’s the right thing to do know too. However we don’t have a village anymore to help us moms when we are too tired to do it all (right Kristin, where’s our village?!).

This morning I decided I would give it a try and have each kiddo sleep in their own room for nap and bedtime. Not so much because it was inconvenient for me, but because Sebastian takes a loooong time to go to sleep. He talks about endless things aliens, spaceships, new batteries for his new miniature Black & Decker tools, he claps, asks for water. You name it. Then Ana takes a long time to fall asleep too and me forever.

I assembled Ana’s crib into a toddler bed ad she took a nap there. I stayed with her for 30 minutes and she took a two hour nap!!! At night she went straight to my room and wanted to climb on my bed, but I brought her to her room, wind up a music box with “When you wish upon a star” (Pinocchio). She held my hand, whined a little but didn’t hey out of her bed and fell asleep within 30 minutes. Success!

It’s 9:45pm and each kid is sleeping in their own room. No major meltdowns and “no cry it out” with Ana which I feel is a total succes thanks to our extended co-sleeping. Ana has slept every single night of her life on my bed. At one point she slept in her crib but it was pushed against my own bed. More like a little extension of my own bed.

I’m proud of my kiddos. I’m sad too because I realize they are growing up. I’m happy I get to sleep in my bed, but I’m sad because they get to sleep in theirs. I’ll miss you til the morning.