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help pleassseeeeeee

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IrisGirl · 15/02/2013 19:58

my DD is 2.3 and is now in her big girl bed. anyway she has figured out that she can get out of big girl bed and is doing it very regularly and then refusing to go back to bed.

any tricks or ideas that worked for you when moving to big beds???

thanks in advance guys xx

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frazzledbutcalm · 15/02/2013 20:14

Dc4 was the only one who did this. He was up 12 times a night, I put him back in his bed each time. Made no difference. A friend suggested putting a stair gate across his bedroom door. I thought it seemed a bit cruel, but I did it anyway as I simply could not take the lack of sleep any longer. The first night he woke up twice, I heard him push the gate each time then get back into bed! The next night he got up once. After that he never woke up again!! I can't believe it worked so well! That baby gate saved my sanity. I only kept if up for a couple of weeks, as once the habit of waking up was broken he just never woke up again.

MrsMushroom · 15/02/2013 20:15

My DD1 did this...the ONLY thing that worked was me standing sentry outside her door...(in the dark) and then as soon as she got out, I went in and put her back in physically.

She would get out right away and I'd stand there and put her back in!

I did this silently...now and then I said "No...bedtime now" in a flat voice so she didn't try to engage me.

It took about a week!

But then she realised it wasn't working....and she'd stay put. SUCH a boring process......

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IrisGirl · 15/02/2013 20:22

thank you ladies

frazzled i have thought about the stairgate across the door....but the door won't shut then will it?? and with two older step-daughters roaming around and lights going on and off i'm wondering if an open bedroom door, lights and noise will keep her awake??

mrsmushroom that's what i'm having a go at now, hope it works, prepared for a battle for a little while and at times i fear she may be more of a fighter than me and will win this one.....

she appears to be sleeping so until the next battle i shall enjoy my

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frazzledbutcalm · 15/02/2013 20:29

The door doesn't close, we're open plan so you can hear everything from the living room also. Despite having 3 older children not yet in bed, the noise did not keep ds awake. I tried to keep the 3 older ones quiet for the first half hour after ds went to bed.

I also tried the putting back to bed 'supernanny' style .. no eye contact, no talk etc. Ds climbed back into bed each time but it made absolutely no difference to him keep getting up anyway! It went on for months. I just kept thinking that surely he knew he was getting nothing from it, so why keep getting up?!? I think it was just habit. He didn't want anything, didn't ask for anything, just calmly went back to bed each time

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IrisGirl · 15/02/2013 21:20

fairplay that made me chuckle, reminds me of my little one. she's doesn't want or need anything, she's only doing it because she can!!

bless them, they know how to get our attention don't they lol
our downstairs is open plan, but upstairs isn't so whilst she's used to hustle and bustle i think if that was going on upstairs with her bedroom door open she'd be too nosey and would want to see what was going on
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