12 thoughts on “The <strike>creeper</strike> sleeper”
Omg I just laughed out loud at her comment about being back in Mums bed! But seriously this scares me…we still have V in the bed too and I keep setting new goals as to when to get her back in her own bed….but I haven’t found the energy yet to knuckle down and stick it out! Only good thing about her being in the bed is there’s no room for the baby so as a result Ivy’s a wonderful self-settler and sleeps better than the rest of us! My fingers and toes are crossed for you that this works long-term x
The best advice I have heard is when you buy your child’s first bed, always buy a double. So if they won’t sleep or are sick you get into THEIR bed with them. My little girl is nearly 9weeks but I’m sure I have this to look forward to. She was in a bassinet beside my bed and now a cot in our room. I like being able to see her.
Would she sleep on a mattress on the floor? That’s what we did for littluns who wanted in. We had a comfy camping mattress on the floor and if they came in they slept on that. Some mornings I’d wake to find them there having not heard them. Good luck :-)x
Oh that comment about her getting to day 10 and being back in mum’s bed made me smile. We do forget that kids don’t necessarily understand things the way we do. Or maybe that we make assumptions about what they do and don’t understand – or what we have or haven’t communicated.
Mr 4 lost his dummy (we just couldn’t find it) on Christmas morning, just as we were heading off for two weeks. Hubby and I decided that this was the perfect opportunity to lose it on a permanent basis. He coped two weeks just fine but started asking to go home a few days before our holiday ended. We assumed it was because we’d been on the road and he wanted to go back to his own house and his own toys. About an hour from home, during a long road trip, he asked how much longer to go. I told him we’d be home soon and his response? ‘Yay, I get to see dada (dummy)’ He hadn’t mentioned it for two weeks!
Love this. My 3 year old is still in our room. Sometime in our bed. That made me laugh about the 10 days and back onto your bedroom.
My 3 year old doesn’t sleep through the night, so having her in our room makes better sleep for me. yes im selfish. I will work on moving her soon..
I wish you luck
This has just made me very fearful. My 1.5 year old sleeps in our bed most nights. She starts in her cot but once I’ve been up for the third or fourth time ( somewhere between 1.30am & 3.30am) I bring her into our bed because OH MY GOD I JUST WANT TO SLEEEEEEEP!!! We keep telling ourselves it’s not forever. But maybe it is?! Maybe she’ll be like Lacey? Maybe she’s never going to sleep all night? Can you hear the hysteria in my voice?! Shiiiiiiiiit……
Our 3.5 year old had great difficulty transitioning to her own bed. At 2 she got the big girls bed but she need hubby or i to stay in the bed with her reading and singing until she fell asleep. We were ok with this as she wasn’t in our bed, even though at around 2am she would come in and snuggle with us just about every night. But with a new baby in the house spending an hour in her bed untill she fell asleep was impossible! Now we can put her down read a book or two and say good night, with a big discussion first about how she was a big girl and could do this on her own, and when she creeps back in at 2am with an arm full of stuffed toys we send her back to bed…. its on going but each step forward is a happy one… mostly
Sounds like my 7yo… Biggest issue for her at the m OK moment is that her sleep allergy is preventing her from enjoying sleepovers. I am clinging to the fact that her big sister got the hang of sleeping at about 7.5…… so we are almost there. Maybe I may miss the night time cuddles but I suspect not. Thanks for being so honest about the sleep issues too.
When we transitioned our eldest from her cot her big girl bed we had a long road of protest! We ended up making up her cot mattress and popped it under our bed so when she came in in the middle of the night I just slid it out she jumped into her little bed beside me and we all went back to sleep. Thankfully she kinda just got over it and now two years on she only comes in occasionally and just jumps into bed with us now (we ended up buying a king size when number 2 came along!) and always on my side so I still end up with 2inches of bed space! Though I do still have to sit with her every night until she has fallen asleep or she gets frightened and all hell breaks loose and she wakes up her little brother! I guess you have to work out how hard you want to battle it if its still ongoing, or if giving in to the situation will lessen the stress on all of you xx
I just sent this to hubby to show him we’re not the only ones. We, more often than not, end up with 2 little people in our bed by the end of the night. It’s killing Hubby as he is the one who cops the kicks in the back whilst they snuggle into me and he ends up in a different bed. I’m so tired I sometimes don’t even register they’ve climbed into bed with us. I am naively thinking it will phase itself out…. ha! 😉 Well done on working on getting it sorted and thank you for sharing it. Jx
Our nearly 4 year old has slipped back into this habit. Last night he finally slept through but I was wide awake at 4.30am waiting for him. The thunder started too so felt sure he’d come in but didn’t. Wow!!! He woke up at 8am with a dry night nappy too. Only 1 more night of dry and we’re a nappy free house hold!!!! I’d drink to that but off the booze at the mo!!! Hahaha! Til then then!! Hope you get some good zzz soon xx
We coslept for 2 years and it was hard, horrible, lovely and the best all at once. And we were told by so many people (who must be experts right?!) “oh you’ll regret that! You’ll never get her to leave your bed!”. Well after 2 years and 1 month exactly she did leave her own bed. No tears, arguments, step backwards etc… just a smooth transition. And we’ve moved house 4 times since that amazing sleep transition and every time I’m worried she’ll want to come back into my bed but nope. So miracles do happen!!! I promise!
Omg I just laughed out loud at her comment about being back in Mums bed! But seriously this scares me…we still have V in the bed too and I keep setting new goals as to when to get her back in her own bed….but I haven’t found the energy yet to knuckle down and stick it out! Only good thing about her being in the bed is there’s no room for the baby so as a result Ivy’s a wonderful self-settler and sleeps better than the rest of us! My fingers and toes are crossed for you that this works long-term x
The best advice I have heard is when you buy your child’s first bed, always buy a double. So if they won’t sleep or are sick you get into THEIR bed with them. My little girl is nearly 9weeks but I’m sure I have this to look forward to. She was in a bassinet beside my bed and now a cot in our room. I like being able to see her.
Would she sleep on a mattress on the floor? That’s what we did for littluns who wanted in. We had a comfy camping mattress on the floor and if they came in they slept on that. Some mornings I’d wake to find them there having not heard them. Good luck :-)x
Oh that comment about her getting to day 10 and being back in mum’s bed made me smile. We do forget that kids don’t necessarily understand things the way we do. Or maybe that we make assumptions about what they do and don’t understand – or what we have or haven’t communicated.
Mr 4 lost his dummy (we just couldn’t find it) on Christmas morning, just as we were heading off for two weeks. Hubby and I decided that this was the perfect opportunity to lose it on a permanent basis. He coped two weeks just fine but started asking to go home a few days before our holiday ended. We assumed it was because we’d been on the road and he wanted to go back to his own house and his own toys. About an hour from home, during a long road trip, he asked how much longer to go. I told him we’d be home soon and his response? ‘Yay, I get to see dada (dummy)’ He hadn’t mentioned it for two weeks!
Love this. My 3 year old is still in our room. Sometime in our bed. That made me laugh about the 10 days and back onto your bedroom.
My 3 year old doesn’t sleep through the night, so having her in our room makes better sleep for me. yes im selfish. I will work on moving her soon..
I wish you luck
This has just made me very fearful. My 1.5 year old sleeps in our bed most nights. She starts in her cot but once I’ve been up for the third or fourth time ( somewhere between 1.30am & 3.30am) I bring her into our bed because OH MY GOD I JUST WANT TO SLEEEEEEEP!!! We keep telling ourselves it’s not forever. But maybe it is?! Maybe she’ll be like Lacey? Maybe she’s never going to sleep all night? Can you hear the hysteria in my voice?! Shiiiiiiiiit……
Our 3.5 year old had great difficulty transitioning to her own bed. At 2 she got the big girls bed but she need hubby or i to stay in the bed with her reading and singing until she fell asleep. We were ok with this as she wasn’t in our bed, even though at around 2am she would come in and snuggle with us just about every night. But with a new baby in the house spending an hour in her bed untill she fell asleep was impossible! Now we can put her down read a book or two and say good night, with a big discussion first about how she was a big girl and could do this on her own, and when she creeps back in at 2am with an arm full of stuffed toys we send her back to bed…. its on going but each step forward is a happy one… mostly
Sounds like my 7yo… Biggest issue for her at the m OK moment is that her sleep allergy is preventing her from enjoying sleepovers. I am clinging to the fact that her big sister got the hang of sleeping at about 7.5…… so we are almost there. Maybe I may miss the night time cuddles but I suspect not. Thanks for being so honest about the sleep issues too.
When we transitioned our eldest from her cot her big girl bed we had a long road of protest! We ended up making up her cot mattress and popped it under our bed so when she came in in the middle of the night I just slid it out she jumped into her little bed beside me and we all went back to sleep. Thankfully she kinda just got over it and now two years on she only comes in occasionally and just jumps into bed with us now (we ended up buying a king size when number 2 came along!) and always on my side so I still end up with 2inches of bed space! Though I do still have to sit with her every night until she has fallen asleep or she gets frightened and all hell breaks loose and she wakes up her little brother! I guess you have to work out how hard you want to battle it if its still ongoing, or if giving in to the situation will lessen the stress on all of you xx
I just sent this to hubby to show him we’re not the only ones. We, more often than not, end up with 2 little people in our bed by the end of the night. It’s killing Hubby as he is the one who cops the kicks in the back whilst they snuggle into me and he ends up in a different bed. I’m so tired I sometimes don’t even register they’ve climbed into bed with us. I am naively thinking it will phase itself out…. ha! 😉 Well done on working on getting it sorted and thank you for sharing it. Jx
Our nearly 4 year old has slipped back into this habit. Last night he finally slept through but I was wide awake at 4.30am waiting for him. The thunder started too so felt sure he’d come in but didn’t. Wow!!! He woke up at 8am with a dry night nappy too. Only 1 more night of dry and we’re a nappy free house hold!!!! I’d drink to that but off the booze at the mo!!! Hahaha! Til then then!! Hope you get some good zzz soon xx
We coslept for 2 years and it was hard, horrible, lovely and the best all at once. And we were told by so many people (who must be experts right?!) “oh you’ll regret that! You’ll never get her to leave your bed!”. Well after 2 years and 1 month exactly she did leave her own bed. No tears, arguments, step backwards etc… just a smooth transition. And we’ve moved house 4 times since that amazing sleep transition and every time I’m worried she’ll want to come back into my bed but nope. So miracles do happen!!! I promise!