Well things still aren't smooth.

Wow we are coming up on 1 month since dd decided she was a big girl and could sleep on her own. She is doing great for the most part.

However she wakes in the night needing some hugs and cuddles from mom. At first we did soothing music (dolphin songs) and that helped her go back to sleep. Then she decide to watch shows and moves we had on the iPod and was awake for sometime in the night and then a bear in the morning. So now she has nothing in the night and it is harder. She is waking usually at least 2 times in the night is taking it's toll on me and my energy and I need to figure this out. I mentioned to dd's behavioural coach the issues and she has suggested I give dd melatonin before sleep to help her break the habit of waking. This sounds great but after 4 nights it hasn't helped much. On the positive side she is not asking me to sleep with her and even though she is waking she is calm and just stumbles in for hugs but often wants me to go into her room and hug her before she can get back to sleep. She is very pleased with her self that she is a big girl so all in all we are doing pretty good I just need to get this waking thing under control.

She's doing great!

I thought I would update you all about my daughter sleeping on her own. She is doing really great. She had a struggle to get to sleep on her own the first night and she got up around 3:00 and just needed a hug! This is a huge break through as she would normally barely have been awake but realized I wasn't there and go tearing around the house screaming and looking for me. In the nights since she has gotten up a few times one night she wanted me to sing to her. So the next night I had some soothing songs on her ipod for her to listen to. She seems to be really proud of herself that she is sleeping on her own. I am really impressed and happy with how great she is doing!

Now me on the other hand?? OMG I forgot about my husband the snoring, bed and cover thief that I love. He also has late shifts from 3:00 to about midnight but a few nights he has worked overtime. He comes home lays down and tells me about his day then gets up to have something to eat relaxes and then comes back to bed around the time I have just gotten back to sleep and fills me in on stuff he forgot. I am glad he is talking to me and telling me things but I am really having a hard time getting sleep and adjusting to a different bed let alone dd coming in to see me and him chatting and then snoring and such. Hopefully I will get use to all this soon. One night he had ice cream and all I could hear was his spoon scrape, scrape, scrape on the bowl, I was ready to beat him with the darn spoon. I think cause I am listening for the kids I am picking up everything that normally wouldn't bother me.

That's how we are doing!

Big change today!

I am just going to start buy saying please don't judge me for this as everyone seems to have strong opinions on this topic.

My daughter has been a co-sleeper since she was little. I got more sleep she got more sleep we all did better with her co-sleeping. My son however has never co-slept. Maybe the rare nap cuddle but he likes his space and he likes to sleep on his own. I think that co-sleeping is an individual thing that each family has to decided what works fo them. My dd just turned 6, and she also has special needs. One of her issues is that she has night terrors. She will get up and run around blindly and scream till I can get to her and call her down. If I am co-sleeping with her I can feel her getting restless and know that if I just hug her or rub her back I can settle her back to sleep without a problem. Therefor we still get more sleep and she doesn't get so worked up if we are co-sleeping. I have noticed in the last couple of months she hasn't had any really restless episodes. We talk today and she has decided that she would like to sleep with her stuffed animals now. I am thrilled as I feel that sleeping in a separate beds is not helping my husbands and I's relationship. We aren't in trouble but we don't feel as contected and lets just say our sexlife has not been the same either. I really hope that this will go well tonight . I have tried several times to end the co-sleeping but I end up going and laying down with her and falling asleep and then lack of sleep form her waking me drives me back to the co-sleeping. I am hoping becasue she has told me this is what she would like she will do well.