Bubbie at 1 wk old
Ever since my dear little 'Bubbie' was born he has been pretty well to transition. I mean, being a military brat there really wasn't many other options for him.
3 days old- home from hospital
4 days old- back in the hospital for jaundice
5 days old- back home
10 days old- Daddy deploys & we head to my parent's for a while
2 months old- we take long trip from NC to Alabama for couple days & then head to Texas
3 months old- we move from living with Mimi & Pawpaw to living with Aunt Teppy, Uncle Jason, & Johnman
9 months old- Daddy is home for 15 days
10 months old- Daddy leaves again
11 months old- we head back to NC, this time only stopping in Alabama for a night
12 months old- we leave my parent's house to get ready for Daddy to come home
13 months old- Daddy comes home
16 months old- We move from NC to Virginia
Throughout most of moving & visiting my son held up really well. However, I guess that it's not always easy. Eventually there is a breaking point where things stop being all peachy keen. For Bubbie this would be when Daddy comes home when he was 13 months old.
It was from sleeping all night in his own bed to screaming when we laid him down to sleep. I'd never had so much trouble out of him & it tore me up inside and out. My baby has always been the happy baby. The easy to adapt baby. Not anymore. We figure it was maybe the fear of Daddy leaving again. Something inside him snapped & he was like, "nope, not going to allow it again". All of the moving finally set in. He was letting us know that since Daddy was finally home, it was enough. We really do not know the exact reasons but whatever they were, it's only gotten worse from there.
Bubbie has gone from sleeping in his own bed through out the night to sleeping with Mommie at bedtime. He plays until he randomly passes out at nap time. When I say he sleeps with Mommie at bedtime, I mean that he will not go to sleep unless I am in the bed with him. Sometimes I can be doing whatever I wish such as reading or playing online. Other times I have to turn the lights out and pretend to sleep with him. I could grasp this change a great deal easier if we had been co-sleepers since day one but no; we only did the co-sleeping for the first 3 months of his life. He then moved quiet easily from that to sleeping in his own bed in my room at first and then to sleeping in his own room after that. And even after refusing to sleep in his own room alone he moved to sleeping in a 'Pack n Play' in our room, not in our bed. But now it has to be Mommie's bed or nothing.
I know that the world is not going to end just because my son sleeps with me. It may form a problem once the new baby is here and such but still. Truth be known- I love waking up and seeing his sleeping self next to me. It gives me that sense of peace that I desperately need at the end of my day, most days. So with that stated I'm simply saying that I do not understand where this came from. But then again, I guess I do and I can not blame the poor child. I'm just glad that now we're settled and wont be moving for a very long time. That is, as long as the Army doesn't have other plans for us anytime soon.
So what are your thoughts on how to prepare him for his own room again? Has anyone else ever experienced this kind of thing before?
♥,
Jessica
