cosleeping parents: how do you cope with baby's nighttime stirrings?
DD is 4 months old today (yay). She sleeps in a "co sleeping cot", the one sold by the ABA. It attaches to the bed by my side, so she's right by me and an easy reach, but not under our covers or able to be rolled on by DH (who is a really heavy sleeper).
Anyway, I am a really light sleeper. And I spend a lot of time awake in the night because DD tosses and turns in her sleep. I think she's mostly asleep when she does this, though not always. Now, it's great being close to her and not having to get up to giver her her dummy back and so on, but I'm slowly going crazy for lack of sleep because of waking every time she rolls over. I thought I'd get used to it eventually, but I haven't yet.
I'm starting to understand why people put the babies in a separate room. No intention to do this, but I can see that if I got much more desperate for a decent sleep it might end up working better for us all. I also do all of the nighttime wakeups because there is no way DH wakes, not even when DD is crying (convenient for him, hey). But there aren't many of those really - only one or two feeds a night now. It's the waking to DD stirring lightly that's killing me.
How do other light-sleeping cosleeping parents cope with this?
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