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Sleep Training

05 November 2013

The past 10 days was glorious. Ben was out of town and so I had the entire bed to myself, we’ll except for my 2 fury friends.  Which is a new thing actually.  Ratchet has always slept with us. he likes to be warm and cuddled up in between my legs.  Mabel on the other hand gets annoyed with being pushed around and quickly ends up leaving our bedroom and sleeping on the sofa.  Well that was in the past. Now that I’m pregnant Mabel wants to be on me all the time, which also means sleeping next to me.

This is what I see at night when I’m headed to bed or in the morning when I’m getting ready for work.   He looks comfortable right?
 
 
So  I have a big husband and 2 dogs sleeping on top of me in a queen size bed. It isn’t awesome.

Last night was Ben’s first night home which means our first night all sleeping together, and in my book I consider it a disaster.  Ratchet sleeps in between Ben and I, Mabel sleeps on the other side of me and they both sleep with their legs facing me. so if I try to scoot one of them they lock their legs and their nails dig into me!!

How am I going to deal with this when I’m big and pregnant?  I’m worried about just having Ben in the bed!!  So I’ve decided (and friends that know me, I’m serious this time) that I’m kicking the dogs out of the bed.  In the past we’ve tried to let them sleep next to the bed but they ultimately sneak under the covers and I wake up a 2am uncomfortable and then wide awake after moving the dogs and snuggling them back into their bed.

I remember years ago a friend told me she had to deal with this same issue while she was awaiting the arrival of her son and she had to completely kick the dogs out of the room and make them sleep in the hallway. And after trying to kick my dogs out of the bed many times I think she had the right idea.

Kick them out of the room entirely. 

I’m going to need Ben to be on board with this, and my sister cannot let them sleep in her room. That’s the guest room and after she moves out I certainly won’t want the dogs thinking that’s their room.

 

Wish us luck!!



2 comments:

  1. Oh my god that sucked kicking them out of our room. 5 years later and only one of them will even enter our room to sleep now and he only sleeps on the floor. So its effective good luck and expect lots of crying. Its goo practie for when the baby comes I guess haha.

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  2. I'm cracking up at that picture! Good luck with the training. We were thinking that we would have to do that but luckily, once I got really big, Murph wanted nothing to do with me taking up the whole bed so he sleeps under it now.

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