When Cecilia gets nightmares, I sleep on her floor. She says her nightmare are about ants. Sometimes spiders. They don’t happen often, but she yells for me, and I get my pillow and sleep next to her tiny bed. It makes me feel good that this helps her. That is makes her feel safe to have me there. I sleep pretty well despite the hardwood floor.
When she gets sick, I sleep in her bed. I think its the congestion that scares her – makes her feel like she is suffocating. Before she was 4, she would sleep face down on my chest, legs dangling down my body, when she was sick. Now she’s pretty big, so I sleep next to her. This us usually a night or two, until she’s out of the acute phase of the illness. There is more snot in parenting than is advertised.
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