Hoe do I get DD2 into her own bed ??

[Jobean]

My DD was very poorly over Christmas and to save getting up through the night she moved in my bed and DH moved out. Now she won't settle back in her own bed. I have to lay with her until she falls alseep and more often than not I fall asleep myself waking up in the missle of the night squashed in a singled bed ! If she senses I am not there in the night she wakes up and moves back into my bed.

This is causing a bit of a headache in the marital bed dept (although not so much on my part !!)

What can I do?

I've partly solved this one atm with one of the 'hotties' bears, ya know the bears with a wheat bag that you microwave? She'll stay in her own bed with that til she gets cold about 6am and has to come and warm her feet on me and daddy, but for now we can live with that as it's an improvement on having the little octopus in there all the time

We've been there.

What worked for us:

• Quietly but firmly put her back in her own bed when she comes through to yours. No exceptions!
• Buy a mattress/trundle-bed to go alongside hers when she's ill in future. So it's one of you who goes into her room, not her coming into your bed. Then when she's better, revert to normal.

Personally I loved co-sleeping with my DD (except for the nights she slept cross-ways and kicked me in the head) but DH was also feeling pushed out, so we bit the bullet!