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Nearly 7 year old still sleeps with me don’t know what to do.

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raisingstars · 29/11/2025 10:50

It’s been over a year now since our son has been sleeping in our bed, before he used to come into our bed in the middle of the night and because it was too tight one of us would have to sleep in his bedroom, as you can imagine this kept disrupting us so we decided to just let him sleep in our bed from the start, we thought he would grow out of it but it’s gone on for too long there’s no way we can get him to sleep in his bed at all we’ve tried everything he has such a lovely new decorated room as well but that hasn’t helped either, I feel like it’s slowly starting to ruin our marriage, my husband works very long hours and I don’t get to see him much anyway.
He would also follow me around the house, if I’m trying to put my 5 month old to sleep upstairs he comes next to me too and disrupts her sleep because he won’t be quiet.
He can’t do anything by himself can’t even put his socks on even after showing him so many times!!!
it’s really starting to take a toll on me I’ve had so many breakdowns I feel like I’ve got a big baby who’s constantly attached to me he doesn’t give me any space all I really don’t know what to do anymore he is nearly 7!

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Andonthatbombshell · 29/11/2025 10:53

Has he been assessed for any special needs or neurodiversity?

ACatNamedRobin · 29/11/2025 11:55

Bring him back to his room when he comes in. Accept that you'll probably have to do it 20 times that night and not get any sleep.
Keep doing it every night, should hopefully extinguish it.

BeckySharpest · 29/11/2025 12:01

DS did this for the entirety of primary school and only stopped in the summer term of year 6. He could fall asleep by himself but not maintain sleep, not even with melatonin, and then would be with us from 1-5am when he was up for the day.

He has ADHD though, and even now at 17 is prescribed sleeping tablets to try and get him a break from his lucid dreams. I think it was these really confusing dreams and also his over-attachment issues (which did not last!)

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cannotmakedecisions · 29/11/2025 12:10

My youngest used to come into our bed most nights till he was about 11. We tried different things to stop it but eventually just accepted he’d stop in his own time. I used the phrase “it won’t be forever” a lot! I don’t know what changed but he did stop in his own time. I do miss it sometimes!

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