I am a sold out, 100% attachment style parent. My daughter cosleeps with me whenever she chooses and will until she no longer has that need. I'm sold on cosleeping, it doesn't make a bit of sense to me that adults choose to sleep together but our children are expected to sleep alone. I love that my daughter flits back and forth during the night, snuggling up with me and then throwing an arm or two over her daddy. I love that she knows we are there are that we are parenting her and connecting during sleep hours too.
And now her daddy and I are not sleeping together all the time and will probably not be sleeping together in the future. We were talking about moving and changes during lunch (note to self: time to limit these talk in front of her at least until it is time to act on them) when she made the statement that started this post.
I know it's a transient need. I know it might not even be an issue. I know there are things that are going to be lost and other things that are going to be gained. But it Breaks My Heart.
I don't want to disrupt her life. I don't want this at all! I do want to go hide in the quiet and cry.
One step forward, one step back. Only it's hard to measure the steps sometimes.
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