For 5.5 months Simone has slept beside me in our room. Sometimes peacefully. Sometimes not. But always right next to me - she was always there. Which is a problem in itself... she was ALWAYS there. We were prisoners in our own room. Forced to brush our teeth in the kitchen, fear rolling over in bed, and damn that dog should she have a dream and begin whimpering and barking in her sleep. I was in constant fear of making noise and waking up Simone.
Tonight she has been kicked out. She spends her first night in a crib in Tate's room - now their room. I am sad. I am happy. I am still fearful that a noise will wake her up. But I will go to bed tonight after brushing my teeth in the bathroom, washing my face again, maybe even reading a few pages of a book before turning off the light, and making as much noise as I want getting settled. No... I'm still just sad. She's growing up.
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I had to laugh at this photo, especially the highlights of the "awake boy" and "sleeping baby". Congrats on making this work, cool that Simone did not wake Tate up. Hopefully over time Simone will come to embrace any noise as "white noise" and think nothing of it as she rolls back to sleep...
Wow..........wow........so glad for you all that the room sharing is working out!!!!
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