How to sleep train a toddler..

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to stay in her own bed all night? She is 2.2. We currently co-sleep but I want it to stop. I would like my bed back now. She starts off in her cot at bedtime but come 11pm she cries out & comes & gets in our bed.
I know I am to blame for this as it's all she has ever known but I was sort of hoping she would stop waking throughout the night as she got older. Ha this obviously hasn't happened.
If anyone has any helpful tips or has been in the same situation & came out the other side & would like to tell me how you done it pleaseeeeee let me know!

I did it slightly earlier with my DD. She'd never been in a cot so we introduced her single bed at 16mo. She was feeding to sleep so I would do that in her bed and then co-sleep in her bed after the first wake up. We gradually changed it so my DH would go in and lie with her fall asleep if she woke up and after a couple of months she was sleeping through.

So my advice would be move her into a bed but make it a full size single so that you can co-sleep in that if you need to, then gradually drop the co-sleeping.

Sorry, should have explained my reasoning! So if you co-sleep in her bed, she should be less disturbed because she's not moving and also once she's had the comfort and gone back to sleep, you can escape back to your bed alone!

It's definitely not a quick fix but it worked well for us and at least now DD won't have to move beds again. We've now got 8mo old DS in with us so no doubt we'll be repeating the process some time in the future!

Thanks tea that's really helpful. This is something I think is worth a try. Maybe we should start this when we move house then & buy her a 'big girl bed' then start the loooong process

We actually started when we moved, it seemed like a good time for us. When I say it wasn't a quick fix, it probably took 3 months but that included night weaning so although it might not fix it in a week, it might not be as bad as you think? At least it breaks the habit of her in your bed!

Yeah fingers crossed it isn't too long tea I would like to get it sorted as we're thinking of trying for our second dc soon. Thanks for your advice