so when they climb in bed with you in the middle of the night...

[OnlyWantsOne]

... demanding snuggles and telling you they love you as their little cold feeties scratch your warm legs, you get up and fling them back in their bed?

and then what? they scream?

what to do?

DD is 2.4 and goes to bed well, has random sleep patterns during day though, mostly has dropped day time nap.

Keeps getting in bed with me from 10.30pm to about 3pm and stays there firmly till morning.

If I put her back, she wakes within minutes and comes back screaming...

dd is a joy and a delight to have in bed. She crawls in, cuddles up to me for a little while, then rolls over and goes to sleep quietly. Occasionally she reaches over in her sleep to hold my hand, but mostly she just lies still taking up not much space and sleeps until morning.

ds on the other hand is a menace and a pest. He crawls around, climbs on top of me, attempts to insert his fingers up my nose, huffs and puffs and wriggles until he gets comfortable lying across the bed leaving us clinging to the edges. He then wakes for the day at 5.30am.

Guess which one ends up in our bed more frequently?

Oh this thread is now officially making me want to go upstairs and remove ds from his own bed and put him in with me. That would be wrong, right?

Mintyy - get yourself ready for bed, then get in whichever one of yours has left the most room!.

I have to admit to having picked ds2 up and brought him in with me. Just had a "oh that would be nice" moment and realised I can't as they are at their dads .
ds2 (3) comes in about once a week, for a while recently it has been every night. He is always there by 7am though so we get a snuggle in the morning.

Nah, Minty - I reckon you should do it. You won't be able to do it when they're 18, will you?

So. ~Dd is in her own bed. `She's 13, but has nightmares. Ds is in our bed. He's 8, and thought he'd be fine -apart from not liking the sound of wind!.

Dp will shortly go to bed with ds in our bed because it will please both of them, and I will choose where I want to go. I'll probably get in with dd, simply because soon she wiil me so embarassed that i will be tongue tied and I'l never share her bed again!

DS1 and DS3 sleep all night in their own beds BUT DS2 (who's now 7)is my midnight creeper and will often appear by our bed asking for a snuggle. It used to really bother me and I used to spend ages trying to get him back to sleep in his own bed. Now though, I think that if he needs reassurance or comfort in the night (he often has 'nightmares') then he should have it. He tends to get in with us and we all fall asleep. After about an hour or so, or when it's nearing morning I give him a nudge and tell him to go back to his own bed which he does. Fortunately he sleeps very still and quietly, in fact he sometimes will say 'I'm going back to my own bed' if my DH is snoring loudly