Sleepovers with grandparents
My parents (dad & stepmom) are DYING to have a sleepover with my 15 month old son. This might be long… but advice is appreciated.
My son sleeps in a twin floor bed with 30” high rails. Where would he sleep if he stayed with them? He’s wild. He would absolutely roll off the bed.
If my son wakes during the night, if he’s not crying… I don’t go to him. Probably 90% of the time he puts himself back to sleep. Sometimes it takes 5 min & sometimes he lays there and babbles in the dark for a half hour before he falls back asleep. He has books within reach of his bed, and if he wakes super early, it’s not uncommon for him to pull a book through the rails and look at it then go back to sleep. I do not intervene until 7 am at the earliest. Unless he cries. Then I go in.
However, I have no doubt that without the crib rails he would get up and walk around. He would get out of bed. At least once a night, more likely once in the night and again around 6:00 am. I don’t see this going well at grandma & grandpa’s house.
I’m having another baby in July. My parents are not capable of carrying my son up our stairs. They’ve told me this. He walks, but if he doesn’t want to go upstairs… I pick his tiny butt up and take him upstairs. You cannot force a toddler to walk up stairs on their own. Sometimes transport is required. We have NOBODY to call when I go into labor. My son will HAVE to stay with my parents, and it will HAVE to be at their house because they have a single level home.
Any thoughts? Advice? How should I address this?