We sleep soundly, without worrying if he's still breathing since we have a fancy pants baby monitor that will sound an alarm if it doesn't detect movement for 20 seconds. There's no hovering over the crib with one hand close to his face to detect breath. But if one of us rolls over in bed pretty hard and bumps the other one who was previously sleeping soundly, the bumped person will sit bolt upright in bed, most likely in a terrified sweat, "Where's Mayhem?! Did you put him back in his crib?!"
The offending person then has the job of reassuring the other person that Mayhem is in fact, fine, and has not been in our bed at all.
I'm not sure where this fear comes from since everytime Mayhem has ever fallen asleep with one of us looks like this......
or this.
Then again, I do know where this fear comes from. In my five years in the funeral business, I have tended to so many dead babies that have died because of co-sleeping or family sleeping or whatever you want to call it, but it amounts to sleeping in the parents' bed. I've always thought about how sad it was because this death could have easily been prevented.
If I'm terrified now, what will I do in 16 years when he gets his license and starts driving? I'll probably have to be medicated!
Before he was born, one of the many times Boots and I were trolling the baby aisle in Target, I saw this which made me feel a lot better about the families that still choose to sleep with their baby. Maybe when he starts driving Nerf cars will be real and not something I made up, if someone can figure out how to make Nerf water resistant.
