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Sleeping on the floor - ow can I solve it?

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SoupKitchen · 04/05/2008 21:29

Ds 2.2 has been in a toddler bed for 4 months now, settles well and no problems but in the last 2 weeks we put him to bed then check about half our later . and he is always on the floor asleep with pillows, duvet etc.
It looks like he has built a nest.
should I worry?
How can I get him to sleep in bed?
Any ideas as to why he is doing this??

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K999 · 04/05/2008 21:31

ooh, how sweet! Tbh I would leave him to it - he obviously likes it! You coulod try popping him back into bed but if that would wake him up then I would leave him...

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SoupKitchen · 04/05/2008 21:33

I just think I may as well get rid of the bed, He naps on the floor as well.

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K999 · 04/05/2008 21:34

Thats so funny!! I am sure that he will use his bed one day!! Prob by the time he's 20!

yurt1 · 04/05/2008 21:36

ds1 did this. He slept in a bed for a while but went back to the floor. In the end we gave him a futon, whilst leaving the bed in the room. He never slept on the bed and so in the end we gave it to ds3 leaving ds1 the futon.

Yingers74 · 04/05/2008 21:37

I would leave it too, he will return to the bed eventually. I should not admit it but as a teenager I went through a phase of sleeping on the floor, it just felt more cosy! It lasted a few weeks and then I went back to the bed!

PeaGreene · 04/05/2008 21:37

Novelty factor. DS still likes a change occasionally and he's 7 next week. the worst place I found him was under the stretchy fitted terry sheet. Actually asleep with the sheet stretched around him.

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SoupKitchen · 04/05/2008 21:39

OK looks like I just have a boy with a liking for the smell of carpet
TBH I am more worried about the fact that he coming in toour room in a couple of weeeks while we do a loft conversion, and I am terrified I will step on him if I get up to go to the loo in the night.

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DiscoDizzy · 04/05/2008 21:42

DD2 was like this, if she woke in the night she'd always go back to sleep either on the floor in her bedroom or in the hallway. We just used to put her back to bed asleep. She grew out of it after a few months.

billybass · 04/05/2008 21:45

My 9 year old slept on the floor for about a year. I don't care where they sleep as long as its very soundly.

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SoupKitchen · 04/05/2008 21:47

I would never have guessed that floor sleeping was so popular

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PotPourri · 04/05/2008 21:49

I wouldn't worry about it. He might be making a little nest as you have said. As long as he is not up all night as a result, then there is no harm done. If you think he is getting cold, put more clothes on, a jumper or something... He will probably grow out of it - keep putting him down in his bed.

It's really cute btw

Tommy · 04/05/2008 21:51

my nephew used to do it and DS1 did for a little while - I don't really see what the problem is - as long as they are safe - and asleep

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