We have finally cracked this co-sleeping thing. I mean, we do it, we’ve done it since day one with Bob. It’s sweet, it’s adorable, it’s safe if not safeR. Co-sleeping with an infant is pretty much all peaches and cream. Nursing is wonderfully easy, infants sleep a lot, they hardly move. Co-sleeping with a toddler is largely totally awesome – it reconnects you to them after what can be trying days… but it can be like a bad dare. You may count the number of times you get a foot in the eye or throat on two hands… in one NIGHT. And if your child is like my son Bob, who cannot stand to have a sheet or blanket touch even a TOE, and therefore sleeps HORIZONTALLY across the bed, you may also find yourself cold. And often awake.
And so ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. May I announce The Ultimate Stupendous Solution to that particular predicament — it is called:
TWO DUVETS!
I know, I know. Simple, yet sheerly brilliant. Scott sleeps on one side with a duvet, Bob sleeps in the middle and Meeps and I share a duvet on the other side. Everyone wins!
Also — keep tuned in for my next blog entry, the working title of which being “Nightmare on Vasectomy Street.”
Brian and I don’t have kids yet and even we have our own duvets, so you guys are my heroes for having four people, including a toddler, under one, wow.