I share a mega bed with my hubby & 4 kids – we tried cots but it didn’t feel right & people always ask us the same thing
SHARING a bed with all the kids is a nightmare for some, but one mum-of-four claims she can’t sleep without her little ones by her side.
Sophia Ruby Alice has four children under four and the family-of-six share the same huge bed every single night.
Everyone supports her decision to co-sleep, but they’re all asking the same question about her relationship.
In a recent video, Sophia films herself doing the laundry and changing the sheets on her mega bed.
She says: “Hi, I’m a young mum with four kids who are four years old and younger, and this is why I co-sleep in a mega bed with them.
“When we had our first daughter at 20 years old we went the traditional route of putting her in a crib and immediately for those first couple of weeks, it did not feel right to us.
“So, that’s when we started our co-sleeping journey.
“We had a lot of kids in a span of four years and we co-sleep with all of them because first, we feel like it’s safer.
“We can hear them if they’re sick in the middle of the night. We can hear if they have a bad dream and I can soothe them.”
Sophia knows the time will come when her kids need their own space, so she’s enjoying every minute.
“My mind wonders so if they were in another room I’d be thinking ‘oh my gosh, what if someone broke in or something?’,” she says.
“I can’t handle that anxiety, but I’m sure one day I will have to. Today is not that day.
“We feel very in tune as a family. We love being together. We read books and watch movies together in here [the bedroom] and we all sleep much better because we’re all together.
“We don’t judge other families for not co-sleeping. For our family, this just makes sense.
“I’ll do me, and you do you.”
Responding to Sophia’s frank video, one user asked: “Okay smart, but how do you have alone time to make baby number five?”
A second queried: “Do they still have the option of sleeping alone?”
And a third said: “What about ‘adult’ time?”
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