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night-time nightmares

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xmummy · 16/05/2008 17:24

Hello

Don't know if anyone has any advice, but my 24month old son is now in a junior bed and has slept fine in it for the last month or two since we had it.

Recently he was sick, and sometimes came to bed with us or we soothed him to sleep. Now he is better he won't go to sleep unless soothed, last night and the night before we let him cry it out and kept putting him back in bed if he came out of the room (trying not to interact too much. I know from previous sleep training when he was little that this will eventually work (i hope anyway!)

The problem is that now he is now coming into our bed at night (this is a new one for us) - we want to nip it in the bud as a friend's child still does this aged nearly 5. Does anyone have advice on how best to handle this - is it just keep putting them back in their bed till they get over it - or is that anything else we can try that is effective and kind.

Thanks so much
x

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dylanthecat · 16/05/2008 19:09

could you not put a gate on his door to stop him getting out? You should still be able to hear him if theres anything wrong but he cant get out and wander around which was what I worries about

dylanthecat · 16/05/2008 19:10

worried

xmummy · 16/05/2008 20:36

We have talked about this - but dont understand why he is doing this all of a sudden - cried for slightly less time tonight - we will see if tries to get into our room tonight. Think we may resort to the gate if can not do anything else - thank you]

Does anyone know of any other tricks as well?

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