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I have nowhere to sleep

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Sobloodyexhausted · 24/01/2021 23:01

Feeling utterly miserable I think I’m going to have a really crappy night downstairs again. We are a household of 5 in a 3 bed house. Youngest child is 6 months and normally cosleeps with me in our own room. Two elder children (boys) share a room and husband sleeps in our old master bedroom. We started doing up the boys room shortly after Christmas and it is currently a gutted uninhabitable shell (no radiators/lights/dusty etc). Boys had been going in with dad but last week he contracted covid and we decided he should isolate and that the boys should come in with me. Initially it worked fine one son co-slept in my bed - me in the middle / baby on other side using a cosleeper cot. Other son sleeping on a camp bed. Last two nights though baby is waking up constantly and I end up having to take her downstairs before she wakes everyone up. If it were just me and her I’d be able to let her cry a bit and pat / feed her back to sleep. As it is I’m on high alert and high tail it downstairs the minute she starts whimpering. Tonight I’m just so tired and I don’t know if I can face another night like the last two but not sure what else to do? If we weren’t a Covid house or Indeed in lockdown I’d check into a local hotel for a few nights or stay at friends. I guess I could put baby in a cot mattress in the floor and lie down beside her on some sofa cushions but it’s not ideal. Wwyd?

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MinesAPintOfTea · 24/01/2021 23:05

It’s a bit late for this tonight, but tomorrow night could you bed the older boys down in the lounge and you and baby have your bed back? For tonight, sofa cushions on the floor or just hope baby doesn’t disturb older two.

Sobloodyexhausted · 24/01/2021 23:19

I’m going to try and sweet talk them into it tomorrow- they normally start off keen (and over excited) to have a ‘camp out’ down stairs but get spooked in the night and end up coming back upstairs 😱.
I’m a horrible person I’m currently sitting here with baby on my chest resenting my poor sick husband for having a bed to himself!

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Bumpsadaisie · 24/01/2021 23:26

You poor thing. Sending you courage. It'll get better.

Katrinawaves · 24/01/2021 23:42

Tomorrow can the two boys have your bed and you sleep downstairs on the camp bed with your baby in travel cot if you have one or on cot mattress if you don’t? Then if baby wakes you can feed and resettle her as usual but you at least have a bed to sleep in otherwise.

AccidentallyOnPurpose · 24/01/2021 23:42

Then maybe do it the other way round? You and baby in the livingroom and they stay in your room. You end up down there anyways, might as well start there and make yourself comfortable.

yaboo · 25/01/2021 02:00

put the baby in a box in the front room and kip on the sofa?

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