Constance Hall defends her living arrangement which sees her five children sleeping on the FLOOR

Controversial mummy blogger Constance Hall has responded to backlash she’s received for sleeping with her children on a mattress in the living room. 

The 38-year-old mother, from Western Australia, spoke openly in a detailed Facebook post about the family’s ‘sleep nest’. 

The photo shared online depicts three kids lying happily on the mattress and another child cuddling the family dog on the couch.

The mattress is positioned in the middle of the room running alongside two leather couches, creating a huge sleeping zone with blankets and pillows. 

‘I pretty much always co-slept with my babies, I just loved it, I still love it,’ Constance wrote. 

The 38-year-old mother, from Western Australia, spoke openly in a long Facebook post about the family’s ‘sleep nest’ (pictured). The photo depicts three kids lying happily on the mattress and another child cuddling the family dog on the couch

Constance explained she and her seven kids have been living at her mum’s house for almost 12 months, and five kids sleep in the living room. 

‘While it’s a four-bedroom house, two of the rooms don’t get used and we have two mattresses on the floor in the lounge room surrounded by couches,’ she said 

‘Last night as I lay on one of them with 5 kids surrounding me, all drifting off in between giggling, fighting, dobbing and 4000 “I love you’s” and finally sleep I felt extreme contentment.’ 

The busy mum says she feels content knowing her children are able to feel comforted if they have a nightmare and never wake up alone.

‘It’s not for everyone. It doesn’t have to be,’ she added. 

The busy mum says she feels content knowing her children are able to feel comforted if they have a nightmare and never wake up alone

The sleeping arrangement allows the family the spend an excess amount of time together rather than being separated and alone in bedrooms

While she’s received negative comments previously, hundreds of mums shared words of praise in response to the Facebook post.

‘Just beautiful and I wish this was the norm. I never turned my kids away from sleeping with me, I would never deny them that comfort and safety,’ one mum wrote. 

‘I couldn’t love this any more! Such a healthy attitude to parenting. You sound like an amazing mum,’ another wrote.  

A third added: ‘You will never look back on life and think, “I spent too much time with my kids”.’

Constance said she introduced the sleeping arrangement after speaking to a ‘child whispering midwife’ who claims dinner time and food should be an ‘enjoyable part of life’. 

‘I’ve applied a similar ethos to our sleeping routines,’ Constance wrote. 

More importantly, it allows the family the spend an excess amount of time together rather than being separated and alone in bedrooms.

It follows after Constance took time to reflect on her relationship with her husband Denim Cooke, who she married in 2018. 

It follows after Constance took time to reflect on her relationship with her husband Denim Cooke, who she married in 2018. She has been living apart from her husband after he almost died falling off a motorbike in 2020 

She has been living apart from her husband after he almost died falling off a motorbike in 2020. 

‘He just completely checked out of life after the accident,” she said.

Denim, who recently avoided a stint in jail despite driving with ice in his system and having an unrestrained child in his car, was involved in a horror motorbike crash in August, 2020. 

The 46-year-old was airlifted to a trauma ward at Royal Perth Hospital suffering seven broken ribs, punctured lungs, multiple infections and a brain injury after skidding off his bike.  

‘I think when he woke up from the accident, I was very excited. And there was this sort of false hope,’ Constance said. 

‘I spoke to the doctors, and they said Denim doesn’t have motivation anymore. The frontal lobe damage has taken any of that away that he might have had before.

‘His psychiatrist said really recently, and it was really clever, “He loves you. He loves his family. He needs to work for you rather than just getting you and all the things you do and provide… and that’s not gonna happen unless he’s removed from the family home.”‘

The couple began to look into an assisted care facility to get a few nights away from each other and heal but Constance was reminded constantly that he was ‘becoming a shell of a man’.

Final post? This photo of Constance, Denim and their son Raja shared on July 23 is the last time he appeared on his wife’s Instagram account

They were fighting and the mother-of-seven could see their relations were spiralling.

So Denim went to stay with ‘his bestest friend’ who lives in Esperance, a 10 hour drive away from Constance’s home in Margaret River.  

‘I spoke to him the next day, and there was just this light in his face… like he was just his old self again. He was clear. He was awake and alive and around lovely people,’ she said.

Her empathy, compassion and desire soon returned and Constance thanks her husband’s psychiatrist for stepping in when he did to ‘help them’.