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SDD grinds teeth all night and keeps getting in our bed

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Lux1982 · 26/11/2024 07:08

I am losing my mind over this. SD7 is a bad sleeper and at her mums isn’t allowed to bed hop.

If for any reason I am not sleeping at home, DP will allow both the SDC to sleep in our bed after watching a movie. We got a super king bed so there is plenty of room but they could watch the movie then go back to their own beds but they don’t.

SD7 is put back in her own bed if she gets up while DP is awake and I am in the bed, but he has a habit of letting her in if he’s woken up in the night by her coming in. Last night she got in hours ago and she grinds her teeth, which is a noise that puts my teeth on edge and is hard to sleep through. I’ve asked him to take her to the dentist - he hasn’t. He can sleep through anything and I can’t.

I get out and sleep in her bunk bed when this happens but he says I should just get some ear plugs! I already put my foot down about allowing her into the middle of the bed line he used to because she kicks you all night so she’s on his side of the bed, grinding teeth all night long and I have work today and very little sleep. How do I get though to him!

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SunQueen24 · 26/11/2024 11:00

I don’t think it is at all unreasonable not to want to share a bed with a child you are not the parent of.

We had this issue and solved it by getting DSS a double bed (even 3/4 would be fine). If your DH wants to bedshare that’s fine - but it shouldn’t be in your bed. You are allowed to have boundaries and some space you can call your own.

loveawineloveacrisp · 26/11/2024 21:42

Teeth grinding aside, sharing a bed with a kid who wasn't would be an absolute no from me.

loveawineloveacrisp · 26/11/2024 21:42

Who wasn't mine

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