Co-sleepers I NEED YOUR HELP!!!

[theUrbanDevil]

we co-sleep with ds (9 months) and it's worked well for us up till now. he's started to crawl, and has realised that he can crawl out of his bed onto ours and over our heads, pulling our hair, eating the wires ...well i'm sure you get the picture!

it's been a half 5 wake up for the past week or so, but last night he was awake from half 2 to half 4 just bouncing around, not unhappy or crying, just awake. consequently today he's so tired he doesn't know what to do with himself, and won't nap, nurse, be cuddled or comforted.

the first person to say it's a phase will get electrocuted by their computer.

[DoctorFrankenSquonk]

it's a phase pain in the arse, isn't it!

Hopefully, last night was an aberration and he will go back to letting you lie in you lazy feckers stay in bed till 5!

you could get him a fabric book to look at when he is awake and you're not ready to be?

[TrinityRhino]

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It's a phase



AAAARGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH


sorry no real help at all, I'm expecting the same thing very soon, gecko can crawl now but hasn't started waking really early yet. she wakes every two hours but she wants to be fed and sleep again till 7am
Good Luck with finding some real help

[theUrbanDevil]

he was sleeping in till 7!! at the height of the good bits he would have a feed at 10 or so, then wake up at 2, then sleep till 7! he's so whingey today.

anyone want a baby? he's very photogenic and comes with a range of toys...

[ib]

My solution was to put a cot mattress on the floor next to our bed with a barrier next to it. Along with the side of our bed (we've taken off the legs so it's lowish) it made the perfect playpen to dump ds in when he woke up at ungodly hours.

I would put him in with our light cube alarm clock which proved to be the perfect childminder for that time of night.

Worked a treat until he learnt to climb on the bed....now I dump him on his Daddy []

[theUrbanDevil]

ib - we've tried that. our current sleeping arrangements are that he - supposedly - sleeps his cot, which has the side taken off it, and is then pushed right up to our bed. i tried putting a bed rail between us for when he woke up at stupid o clock and wanted to play but he just launched himself over it and landed on my belly. ouch. at least it was a soft landing for him...

i notice no-one's rushing to take me up on my offer. he's asleep now. on me, of course, which means i'm stuck on the spfa for half an hour. ffs...

[gingerninja]

We've been getting this too. We had to move from cosleeping in our bed to a matress on the floor in her room because DD would spend half the night humpfing around and I'd be worried about her falling out so never get any sleep. That is a slightly better arrangement but nothing oh nothing is stopping these early mornings. I have noticed that the later we put her to bed the earlier she rises. We had a 4.30 wake for the day recently with an 8.30 bed (and a couple of wakings) but if she goes down between 7- 7.30 we get a lay in to 5.30. We have mega middle of the night wakings with teething and developmental stuff ie learning to stand, walk that kind of thing. It is a freeking nightmare but I do live in hope that it will stop soon. I'm not looking forward to the clocks going back!!

[theUrbanDevil]

gingerninja - we're already on a mattress on the floor! i'm not worried about him falling out, it's all the wires on dh's side of the bed that worry me! he has a habit of chewing wires, and i don't think it's great!!

[MeltingandScreamingIcarus]

Um, we tended to put dd2 in the middle and fence her in with out legs. Some quiet toys in the middle.

You learn to dose while they leap about. It stops soon. Honest

I did terrify the crap out of dd1 though during this phase. She came through to climb in for a cuddle. My amazing mum senses realised there was a child at the edge of the bed and I sat up from asleep and lunged at her hauling her into the bed. With eyes shut.

She was distinctly unimpressed.