There was a post of moving to a cot on another post this section, which brought up the issue I've been having and never thought to ask, I'm asking now, because I'd rather do it now than wait for it to become a big problem. I've cross-posted this in the sleep section but with no luck so far, so I'll try hear too.
DD is 23 months has been in her own room for the past 5 months, we hardly had any trouble as we used the rocking chair by the bed - to the door routine as well as switching between me and DH and gave her a new room present (stuffed wolf) which she sleeps with every night. Now the problem...
For the past months or so, a few times out of the week she climbs out of her own cot and climbs into the the cot at the other side of our room (the one we plan to use for dts)
I wouldn't mind but dts are 6 months and co-sleep beside the bed and when they wake, they wake her and visa versa, so by morning I have 3 cranky, tired dc, as the twins wake around 2-3 hours still for feds and she wakes from anxiety (DH mostly deals with her, as he sings her to sleep).
We've tried taking the cot down but she starts crying and attempts to climb into the co-sleeper, I know this because one night when she came in, I woke up and watched her to see what she was doing. She climbs on the bed and crawls into the co-sleeper, which woke dd3 who's a very light sleeper. Luckily I'm a light sleeper too, and wake up when I hear her climbing.
We couldn't keep the cot down, as it's not safe for her to be climbing into the co-sleeper or with us - DH moves a lot, so I'd rather have her in the cot than the sleeper.
I'm tired of having cranky dc, and would like to have some sleep back. I don't know why she's started doing this, and it has us both confused. Help? Advice?
Sorry for the long post! Didn't realise it was this long.
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Toddler moving back into our bedroom, help!
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MamaBlue4 · 23/03/2013 11:58
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