Does your child sneak into your bed in the middle of the night" You?re not alone. (In this instance, you?re truly not alone!) Some parents don?t mind their little midnight (and 3 a.m. and 5 a.m.) snugglers, but others want privacy?or don?t enjoy sharing space with an acrobatic sleeper.
When Judy Lu?s son, Connor, graduated to a twin-sized bed just before he turned three, he stopped sleeping through the night and began wandering  into his parents? bedroom between midnight and 2 a.m.
?He would have his stuffy in one hand and his blanket in the other, then crawl into the middle of the bed,? says Lu. ?He fell asleep quite quickly, but then he would roll around in his sleep until he was sideways: head on me and feet on my husband.?
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