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My husband offered to sleep on the other side of the bed one night last week to allow me to get a more peaceful rest. This way, when the kids came into the bedroom in the middle of the night they would automatically go to the side of the bed closest to the door and he would be there instead of me. I actually took him up on the offer. So off I went to dreamland… or so I thought.
Of course we did have a visitor in the middle of the night, and yes, our daughter DID go to the side of the bed that my husband was sleeping on. Now, if it had been our oldest son burning the midnight oil you would have heard him coming through the house like a herd of elephants. Because it was our daughter she came into our bedroom as quiet as a mouse and whispered softer than a butterfly that she needed to go potty.
I guess you can’t turn off the “mom-sense” because even though I was in a dead sleep I did hear that sweet, quiet little voice whisper. So I sat up and said (loudly), “You need to go potty?” My husband sprang up, ran her to the bathroom, and put her back to bed.
On the plus side, I didn’t have to stand up and essentially wake up to take her to the bathroom, but I did learn that I just can’t turn off the mom-senses, even in the middle of the night.