I'll try to keep this as short as poss! I have 2 DSDs (8 and 12 - different mothers) they spend every other weekend with us, occasionally we have one at a time. In our old house when we just had the youngest, she wouldn't sleep on her own in her room - it's was quite far away from our room, up a different staircase and house was very old. We recently moved into a new house and made it clear way before we moved that she would be sleeping in her own room. We let her choose the decor, colours, pictures, colours, accessories etc... Filled it with her toys and she has a TV and DVD player. We moved in and she loved it, slept on her own for a couple of nights....then older DSD arrived and she wanted to sleep in the same room as her - they both like doing that. Now 2 months down the line, she will not sleep in there on her own. She makes up any excuse she can, cries hysterically. DP managed to get her to sled there once but she kept coming into our room until we let her sleep there. She will also go up to bed and then bring all her bedding into our room and sets up camp on the floor. I'm pregnant and have told DP that he needs to address this issue, but he always lets her get her own way as he believes that he shouldn't upset her as he only sees her every other weekend. I don't want this to still be going on when the baby arrives as she'll be upset that the baby gets to sleep in our room and she doesn't.
Am I right to want to get her into the routine of sleeping in her lovely room or should we just let her sleep in ours?? Sorry for the long explanation!!
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IslandLife · 24/07/2016 17:19
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