Kourtney Kardashian feels “guilt” about spending enough time with her children.
The Poosh creator, who has an eight-month-old boy named Rocky with husband Travis Barker and kids Mason, 14, Reign, 9, and 11-year-old daughter Penelope with her 41-year-old ex-Scott Disick, has had to “balance” her time between her four children and her stepchildren.
Speaking in a confessional on ‘The Kardashians’ this week, she said: “I have kids all different age ranges — preteen, teenage, and infant. So I really try to set aside one-on-one time with each of my kids.“
“I don’t want to miss anything. It’s like a feeling of being pulled in different directions, like wanting to be everything to everyone.”
The 45-year-old reality star says it’s a “rare” time being at home with her newborn, and she finds it hard to leave the house and see her other kids.
She said: “And yesterday the guilt really hit where I was like, ‘Okay I have to do more with the other kids.’ So I don’t know how I’m balancing it yet.“
“It feels like a rare time when you have an infant and I just love this time at home. And when Travis committed to this tour, I wasn’t pregnant yet. I think the reason for going would be to keep our family together. It just feels like, am I ready?” she said, when the topic of Travis’ tour came up.
Blink-182 Rocker Travis, 48, is the father of Landon (20) and Alabama (18), and the stepfather of Atiana De La Hoya (25).
Kourtney recently revealed that she is happily “co-sleeping” with Rocky.
Despite being mocked for repeating the same behavior with two of her other three children.
On her Instagram Story, she shared a screenshot from an audiobook titled ‘Safe Infant Sleep: Expert Answers to Your Cosleeping Questions’ with the caption: “Been co-sleeping safely since 2009, I still love reading/listening to more safe co-sleeping tips and hearing about the benefits.”
In the sleeping book, the author explores why co-sleeping is sometimes regarded “unsafe” and delves into “common misconceptions” regarding the practice.
Co-sleeping has been a contentious issue for years, with doctors warning that it raises the danger of suffocation, strangling, and sudden infant death syndrome.
Other proponents of the practice argue that it can build relationships between parents and babies.
Kourtney previously stated on Instagram about sleeping with Rocky: “He has never been in his crib. “It is my favorite thing in the world.”
She claimed Penelope would only sleep in her bed as late as 2022, saying on the ‘Not Skinny But Not Fat’ podcast in October of that year: “She’s slept with me every day since she was born and pretty much still does.”
Kourtney then clarified that the youngster would occasionally sleep at her sister Khloe or Kim Kardashian’s house, but “besides that,” they were always in bed together.
Mason, her oldest son, also slept in her bed until the age of seven.
She said in a blog on her Poosh website: “I remember going through times of trying to get him to sleep in his own bed.”
“Many nights he would start off in his room and make his way into ours. I eventually embraced a family bed and followed his lead for when he was ready to sleep in his room.”
She added she gets “a better and longer night’s sleep and more time together as a family” that way, saying: “As a working mom, if I didn’t have much time with my babies during the day, at least I knew we’d have our nights together.”
