When it's grey and cold outside, and my daughter needed a 2 am snack, it's hard to get up in the morning. So when she starts calling out, one of us will get her, then pull her into our bed with us. She cuddles sometimes, but this is really her indicating that she needs to be fed. We don't worry about this creating bad habits of her wanting to be in our bed with us (which works for some, but really, not for us), because as soon as she's had her morning bottle, she is on the go. She does not snuggle with us, in fact she climbs all over us, gets her books, expects to be read to, and pokes our faces. Sometimes she'll "stroke" our hair, which is not so restful as it sounds (chalk it up to still developing 12 month old motor skills).
After she has bored of us, she wants out of the bed, so she can turn on my clock radio, dance, turn on and off my touch light, and investigate anything else that catches her fancy. And she is content to entertain herself, unless my husband and I should try to cuddle at all. As long as we lie on seperate sides of the bed, she ignores us. If we move next to each other, she immediately wants in on the action, and insists that she should be with us. She stands next to the bed, whining loudly until we lift her up with us. But she is not content to join us calmly and quietly, in order to catch a few more minutes of quiet before the day starts. No, this just starts another round of poking, prodding, and general wiggling, until we have both resigned ourselves to our opposite sides of the bed once more. Then her job is done, and she can get down and play again. Unless we should leave our designated sides of the bed...
