Co sleeping

Eleanor Pettet is all Pettet in all things, except for her sleeping habits.  Those she gets from her mama.  Meredith Pettet and Lillian Pettet are frighteningly like their mama in all things except their sleeping habits.  Almost nightly one, or the other, or both end up perpendicular to me in my bed.   Most nights it's irritating.  But when I wake up just enough to remember that I will soon wake up and they will be grown, I sigh and go back to sleep.  When all three were tiny babies I wanted them in my bed but all the parenting books protested.  It didn't stop me from nursing them in my bed.  My favorite time was right after they would drift off to sleep and before I would transport them back to their beds.  It was always such a satisfied sleep.  Their breathing was so deep.  I remember laying face to face with these tiny babies and breathing in.  It was as if they were breathing life into me and my next breath depended on theirs.  Interesting metaphor for parenting.