Ach, my mama heart. How come they can still get you the same when they're not tiny any more? On hubby's last deployment, our eldest (who's 10 this year) really struggled, and one night he appeared at 2am to ask if he could sleep next to me. Very quickly got the full story that he'd been having nightmares and really just needed a cuddle. I haven't cuddled him to sleep in a long time and it made me cry (also still sniffed his head, pleased to report he doesn't smell like teenage boy just yet). We co-slept with all of ours until they naturally preferred their own beds and had no end of negative comments about it. Pleased to report that the main outcome of co-sleeping appears to be having kids who seek you out for comfort and still want to be cuddled.Nothing like a proper cuddle is there? my daughter is 28 and she said to me recently that her favourite sound in the world is my voice! I have to admit, that made me cry!
I hope Ronnie gets cuddled properly. I hope he's not left to cry and wasn't sleep trained by leaving him to cry. I hope his dad gives him the genuine, unprompted affection without a camera present that toddlers and little ones need.
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