Tell me this is ok...

[applecider]

My 4.5 year old has co-slept since birth. There have been times when he's slept on the couch or another bed (his choice) or times I have made him sleep elsewhere (too wiggly or loud). There was actually a time when in the am, he would get up out of bed and come to wherever I was (living room). But lately, probably the last year, he refuses to get up out of bed until I have come back to bed and laid with him to snuggle. I am SO TIRED of this. I have a one-year-old too and the bedroom is upstairs in an old house with very steep stairs. It's not exactly easy to tote the baby upstairs and back down. I really don't like basically being at his beckon call that I have to drop whatever I"m doing when he yells mommy and go and snuggle with him before he'll get up. I told him that soon, he was going to have to start coming downstairs on his own and I would snuggle on the couch with him. Am I being unreasonable? How much longer will this go on? I'm ready for it to end. Am I a mean mommy for requiring that he get himself out of bed and downstairs?

[Lilygoose]

I would think it is the willingness to snuggle that is important. So, if you are able to get him to understand that you want to snuggle him, but downstairs on the couch instead, it should be fine. As long as he doesn't feel rejected i can't see a problem. Pehaps make it a kind if game where he needs to come find you in the morning and snuggle?