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Toddler sleeping in our bed

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Cm17 · 12/04/2023 08:30

Our lo one is 2.4 and has always been happy going into her own bed and stay all night.
For the past month now she doesn't want to go to her bed at bedtime and is always saying mummy's bed when it's bed time.
We are putting her in her own bed at bedtime and I stay with her til she goes to sleep if need be, however it's during the night she wakes up, could be anytime from 10ish and she will be calling for me or DH to come to our bed.
We've tried comforting her in her room and putting her back down but most of the time she just wakes back up and starts again.
In the end I give up and bring her in with us just from tiredness.
Myself and DH both work full time with dh having to get up at 4am most morning and me at 6am.
Once she's in our bed she settles and goes back to sleep.
Am I making a rod of our own back here?
Did you manage woth your lo being in your bed every night?
People have sad you need to nip it in the bud now and I know that but we all need sleep and i can't be up constantly through the night trying to get her to sleep in her own bed when we have to be up early in the morning to be at work all day.
Please some positive feedback 😁

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OneStepOneStumble · 12/04/2023 08:40

Honestly I follow the path of least resistance for my toddlers sleep. Since birth she's gone through so many stages of good or rotten sleep and nothing we've done has changed it, it all seems developmental. So now we just bring her in the bed if we've tried a few times to get her down and it's not happening. Sometimes she'll stay all night in her bed and others she'll not entertain being there after 10pm. I assume as she gets older it'll all change again so I'm not worrying about it.

Stripycatz · 12/04/2023 08:45

Is she keeping you awake when she's in your bed?
Having a toddler in your bed is no big deal as long as you're all getting enough sleep.

Alittlelost0 · 12/04/2023 08:55

I've three kids and have always chosen the path of least resistance at night which means the way that you all get the most sleep, if that means in your bed works for you i wouldn't listen to anyone else. Enjoy the snuggles! They tend to naturally grow out of it, no 16 year old sleeps in their parents bed

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Cm17 · 12/04/2023 08:57

@OneStepOneStumble I have said to my husband does it bother him she's in our bed at night and he says no its fine.
Both of us as children would get in to our parents bed during the night and I know my parents never took me back to my bed, they let me stay with them. I did that for years, obvs eventually I stopped doing it. I think its just me overthinking the situation.

@Stripycatz no she doesn't really keep us awake once she's in our bed to be honest, when it first started happening i didn't get as good as sleep as I was conscious she was there but now I put her in our bed and go to sleep.

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Cm17 · 12/04/2023 08:59

@Alittlelost0 i do enjoy the snuggles, there has only been 1 night in this past month that she slept through the night in her cot and when i woke up in the morning I was abit like oh where is she 🙈

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Isthisexpected · 12/04/2023 09:02

What would the rod even be? She'll definitely grow out of it.

Dahlia5 · 12/04/2023 09:04

Our toddler is in bed with us every night and falls asleep there too. The quality of sleep for me is not as good, but I'll take it over broken night's sleep.
If me or DH need sometimes better sleep we then go to the spare room while the other shares the bed with the toddler in the main bedroom.

Mummyof287 · 12/04/2023 09:06

Cm17 · 12/04/2023 08:57

@OneStepOneStumble I have said to my husband does it bother him she's in our bed at night and he says no its fine.
Both of us as children would get in to our parents bed during the night and I know my parents never took me back to my bed, they let me stay with them. I did that for years, obvs eventually I stopped doing it. I think its just me overthinking the situation.

@Stripycatz no she doesn't really keep us awake once she's in our bed to be honest, when it first started happening i didn't get as good as sleep as I was conscious she was there but now I put her in our bed and go to sleep.

Judging by this response it seems to be causing no problem.....so I think you might be letting other peoples opinions get in your head and doubting your own instincts of what is best/right. x

Hazelnuttella · 12/04/2023 09:09

If you’re all getting enough sleep then it’s working!

My DS sleeps in his cot. When he’s been ill/teething and wakes up I’ve tried bringing him into my bed but he doesn’t settle there either, so when he’s well again we go back to him staying in his cot.

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