Kid sleeping in the room. Get it on?

Scenario:
Your 4 year old is asleep about 6 feet from the end of your bed, on an air mattress.
It's time for a little "special mommy and daddy time."
Do you feel odd about it and hold off?
Or dive right in?
I felt odd about it for about 10 seconds, dove right in, and never looked back. It was a challenge keeping it quiet but we got 'er done.

 

Never done it with the elder son (now 5) sleeping nearby, but our 1-year-old sleeps in our room. We have to go for it. The boy cock-blocks me more often than I would prefer--sometimes he wakes up at the slightest hint of arousal from Mommy; the worst was a couple weeks ago, she had a big, vocal, gasping, almost-screaming orgasm during foreplay, and about 4 seconds later the boy woke up. So none for me that time. But we've made it work in general. You learn to be aware of ANY slightest sound around you so you can put on the brakes if the kid stirs.

 

at four it'd be tough to get away with it, but if you're under blankets i say go for it.

both my boys sleep in a seperate room, but join us early morning, which means that there's never ever any early morning action.

 

Maybe not at four ... kids can remember things at 2 years old. Younger than 2 I guess is fine.

 

I try not to do anything in front of my son that I wouldn't want him to relay to my mother-in-law. See: Murphy's Law.

 

Having my Newf watch makes me self conscious. I'd find another room.

 

I don't have kids (or a large dog that judges me with a concerned brow) but this thread reminds me of the "Ergh!" revelation I had when I was 15 about why their bedroom door was occasionally locked when I was in my single digits. "Just lock the door. He'll be okay for 15 minutes, really."

 

I was a really, really late bloomer.

 

I walked in on the folks when I was a young teen.
Some things you just can't un-remember, no matter how hard you try.

 

ICK!!! No way!

 

Keep beneath the covers and don't go gymnastic, and you should be fine. Unless the kid is a teenager, then kick em out. What the hell are you doing sleeping in the room with your teenagers anyway? That's just wrong.

 

I don't have kids, but I think that anything older than about 2 and I would be rather apprehensive. Also, as someone who grew up where there was no 'closed door' or anything, I think that it was more detrimental than if there had been one

 

Yeah... no. The cats watching freak me out. And there was this one time that one of the cats went after something that was swinging....
Kids would not be comfortable for me... asleep, young, old, awake, nope.

 

I was not one for allowing my child to ever sleep with us or in the same room, so it was no issue. That said, she did walk in a few times when she was 4ish lol

I never walked in on my parents, but their bedroom was directly underneath mine, and the air vent in my room came about in the ceiling above their bed, I was about 13 when I realized what I was hearing lol...somethings can never be unheard

 

This situation only happened because we were on vacation.
I would think this happens to most people with young children at some point while traveling.
In retrospect, I'm still cool with it, as long as its silent and under a blanket in a very dark room.

 

Really, it's sex. We've attached this awful stigma to it. Animals have sex in front of their parents, grandparents, kids, grandkids, hell, the entire tribe/pack/school/herd in some species.

By hiding it, we're teaching them that it's dirty, wrong, secretive.

I've never "caught" my parents having sex, nor would I ever want to. But any psychological "scarring" that would occur in a child of four from hearing/seeing a moment of his parents having sex would depend on how the parents handled the situation-- not the sex itself.