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> " now once they
> started snoring louder than my husband then, hey, with no regrets I
> kicked then the hell out of my bed. But by then, they understand :)"
>
> -=-I'm assuming you're joking here. My 8 y.o. still needs me to sleep
> with her some nights. I can't imagine any child that wants to sleep
> with a parent being told "no".-=-
>
My husband went through a few years of snoring really loudly and it was hard
to sleep, but I didn't kick him the hell out of my bed. For one thing, it's
not "my bed." And now he hardly snores ever, at all. There was something
wrong with him, some kind of lingering throat or chest thing, and he used to
cough up too, for years, and that's all stopped.

While he was snoring so much sometimes I would get up and go and sleep
somewhere else. I learned to try to do it without getting angry with him, too.
If I got all riled up, I couldn't fall back to sleep. He wasn't snoring for
meanness.

People who snore aren't worse people than people who don't snore.

Sandra



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Deb

--- In [email protected], SandraDodd@a... wrote:

> >
> My husband went through a few years of snoring really loudly and
>it >was hard
> to sleep, but I didn't kick him the hell out of my bed.
I'd kick DH - but not out of bed. His snoring was part and parcel of
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) - the snoring was the *good* part. The
bad part was when he stopped - because that meant he wasn't
breathing either. So, I'd kick him, he'd snort, gasp, and start
snoring (and breathing) again. By the time I *finally* convinced him
to get it checked out (and his doctor mentioned it), the sleep lab
recorded his breathing stopping 100+ times *per hour* overnight.
Yoiks! Now he has a Constant Positive Air Pressure machine (CPAP)
that is like an air compressor with a face mask. It forces air in
when he inhales to keep his throat muscles from getting all loose
and collapsing while he's asleep. It's not O2, just plain old air.
He is finally, after many many years, getting REM and NREM sleep
(the really deep levels) that he wasn't getting before (stopping
breathing causes waking, even if you don't notice you are waking).

So, for those of you with loudly snoring parents, spouses, kids (yes
OSA is possible in kids - often related to swollen
tonsils/adenoids), get it checked out. It could be something simple
like seasonal allergies or a head cold causing congestion and
snoring. Or it could be something more.

--Deb

aplan4life

I learned to try to do it without getting angry with him, too.
> If I got all riled up, I couldn't fall back to sleep. He wasn't
snoring for
> meanness.
>
> People who snore aren't worse people than people who don't snore.
>

After years of getting very irritable with my DH, I do now get up and
leave without bothering him him because it is not his fault. However,
one time I got so irritated that I rolled over and plugged his
nose...LOL He woke up and I snatched my hand away real quick and
faked like I was sleeping. When morning came around, I realized I
wasn't as slick as I thought, he was laughing his ass off at my
attempt to stifle him.

~Sandy Winn

liza sabater

Heh.

Well, we strive to be awful, hateful and uncaring parents but somehow
it doesn't work out that way ;)

We don't have a king-size bed and our sleeping went AWOL trying to
fit 4 people in a Queen size --my kids have always been big for their
age. So we thought, what is good for the goose is good for the
gander. The little guy never slept in a crib because my kids share a
bed since forever. Best decision we ever made was not to get them
separate beds.

I do love sleeping with them --it's my oldest 'boy' who doesn't enjoy
it. Whenever he goes on a business trip the kids sleep with me. On
weekends the kids get to sleep out in the sofa bed and I sometimes
join in. And if they have a nightmare or are sick, we do end up
sleeping togehter.

All in all though, being able to sleep without a foot up my butt or
the obnoxious snoring of 3 guys in my bed is, well ... glorious. When
Mark's snoring gets out of control though, I just end up in the sofa;
which i have come to love and adore --the sofa, not the snoring :)

In NYC it seems, by my not so scientific survey, that sibling 'co-
sleeping' is indeed common --as well as rampant sofa sleeping. I
don't know why this is not promoted more. It makes so much sense.

/ liza


On Nov 04 2005, at 02:51 PM, SandraDodd@... wrote:

>
>> " now once they
>> started snoring louder than my husband then, hey, with no regrets I
>> kicked then the hell out of my bed. But by then, they understand :)"
>>
>> -=-I'm assuming you're joking here. My 8 y.o. still needs me to sleep
>> with her some nights. I can't imagine any child that wants to sleep
>> with a parent being told "no".-=-
>>
> My husband went through a few years of snoring really loudly and it
> was hard
> to sleep, but I didn't kick him the hell out of my bed. For one
> thing, it's
> not "my bed." And now he hardly snores ever, at all. There was
> something
> wrong with him, some kind of lingering throat or chest thing, and
> he used to
> cough up too, for years, and that's all stopped.
>
> While he was snoring so much sometimes I would get up and go and sleep
> somewhere else. I learned to try to do it without getting angry
> with him, too.
> If I got all riled up, I couldn't fall back to sleep. He wasn't
> snoring for
> meanness.
>
> People who snore aren't worse people than people who don't snore.
>
> Sandra
>
>
>
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