When John-Mark and I were in Ogden over Christmas break, I picked up a book of Dad's called "Nighttime Parenting". It was written by a pediatrician, William Sears, who suggested different ways of infant/parent bonding that may help a young child to sleep better. He advocated sleeping in the same bed as the infant-and this surprised me, because of the danger that a parent may roll over accidently during the night. I laughed with John-Mark about it because Sears suggests that if the parents don't have a big enough bed, perhaps the father can sleep on the couch for a couple of years.
Well, this approach-should we consider using it the future-seems, if nothing else, more feasible recently. While we've been moving our apartment around, John-Mark and I have been sharing a twin mattress with great success. At first we had it pushed against the wall and I'd kind of turn on my side and lean into the wall to give John-Mark some space. Last week, though, we moved the bed away from the wall and still, neither of us have fallen off. It's come close a few times, and I wouldn't say that we exactly have room to spread out, but we've been getting great sleep.
So at least until a babe comes around, John-Mark and I have been enjoying bonding time with eachother as we hang precariously off the edges of the twin bed.
