This is so beautiful. It makes me weep for little me who used to sleep outside my parents bedroom door (as I wasn’t allowed in) and reaffirms my confidence in allowing my own bed to be that safe space for my child now. Thank you for sharing
Oh sweet baby Alissa ❤️ baby you deserved so much more. Baby you deserved a safe island ❤️ what a treasure to heal those wounds in how we love our own children. Arohanui to you ❤️
This made me tear up too! We're currently considering trying to get our almost 6 year old to stay in his bed all night because he limpets to my partner all night and my partner almost gets pushed out of the bed. After reading this, I'm thinking we need to figure out a way to make the current situation work better for everyone instead...
I was a limpet child too! Eventually I think I subsistuted in a draft stopper that was particularly soft to limpit onto when I started the nights in my own bed. Whatever you do will be the right thing: do what works, for as long as it works, and then you do something different. It’s never easy though ❤️
Oh Lou 😭😭😭😭
Thank you Em ❤️ asking for quotes for mum and dad from it was so healing, a nice reflection of our messy family and how we got it right sometimes
Reading this with my toddler asleep beside me and tearing up a little. Thanks for these words Lou, just what I needed to read tonight 🧡❤️
Hold that wee one tight ❤️
This is so beautiful. It makes me weep for little me who used to sleep outside my parents bedroom door (as I wasn’t allowed in) and reaffirms my confidence in allowing my own bed to be that safe space for my child now. Thank you for sharing
Oh sweet baby Alissa ❤️ baby you deserved so much more. Baby you deserved a safe island ❤️ what a treasure to heal those wounds in how we love our own children. Arohanui to you ❤️
This made me tear up too! We're currently considering trying to get our almost 6 year old to stay in his bed all night because he limpets to my partner all night and my partner almost gets pushed out of the bed. After reading this, I'm thinking we need to figure out a way to make the current situation work better for everyone instead...
I was a limpet child too! Eventually I think I subsistuted in a draft stopper that was particularly soft to limpit onto when I started the nights in my own bed. Whatever you do will be the right thing: do what works, for as long as it works, and then you do something different. It’s never easy though ❤️
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This is beautiful
Thank you Kellie, a gentle reflection of the times our messy whanau navigated through in lightness
So beautiful and needed.
Arohanui Andi ❤️ I needed to remind myself of all this too, before I gathered the courage to get in my mamas bed this last week.