Moving Bedroom in the House...Will not go to sleep! I have run out of ideas help!

[Alun]

My daughter is 22 months old. As we have another one on the way, our daughter has moved to a new room. Its pink, its fairy, it has all her things with her. She still has her lunchtime kip. She DOES go to sleep then in the new room..but at night..thats another story.

We have left her for half an hour to cry but she gets too distressed, sick etc. We have moved her cot up to her new room as well as to not throw the "new big bed" into the melting pot of moving issues.

Any suggestions please cheers

get her to choose something she really wants buy it but say it is for her cos she has a new room . This seems to have helped dd understand why she is moving rooms and has involved her in the process. HTH

I know it sounds obivous but is her cot facing the same way? When dd was little I moved her cot and she was facing the opposite direction and it caused all sorts of problems. We moved it back and she was fine.

Are there different night sounds in her new room ? boiler firing up/dishwasher louder/tv noise/traffic sounds/neighbours. Is it warmer/cooler than her old room?

All can make a difference.

maybe have a repeat cd playing during day naps and the same thru the night to give her a familar sound and to mask the others.

Do you read a story in her room? does she play in it? make it a fun place and "her's".

why can't she stay in her old room and the baby gets the other one?

That is exactly what I was wondering starlover. Also, you are advised to keep the baby in the same room as you for six months to help prevent cot death. So if the baby is due in a couple of months and you keep the baby with you for at least a couple of months more...

No, no, if she has to move then help her get used to her new room before the baby arrives.

Does she sleep in the dark? I know that if I wake in the night and see something that I can't identify it can give me a fright - I always make sure that I don't drape my trousers with the legs dangling down, for example, as in the dark it can look like there's someone there. Similarly I hate havig a mirror facing the bed. Ds tells me that he sometimes wakes in the night, but he just looks around and realises were he is and then he isn't worried and goes back to sleep (his words). Is there something in her room that might look worrying in the dark? Trouble is, it can be very difficult to identify such a thing. (Almost since dd could talk she has been telling me about the elephant on the ceiling in her room, and it was more than a year before I realised that she was referring to a hook fixed to the ceiling.)

we moved our DS1 to new bedroom and new bed at 22 months as DS2 was due to move out of our room into DS1's old room & cot.

We had problems as you can imagine - first he wouldn't stay in the room & would cry on the landing - so we tied the door shut. Then he would cry in his room - found that by spending time in his bedroom, reading books, looking at quiet things before he went to sleep then saying it's time to sleep now. Sitting on the floor while he drifted off and then each night sitting further and further away from him until we could just put him to bed and kiss him good night. Now at 2.5 years he quite happily goes up to bed and even sometimes asks to go to bed.

I'm sure you will get there in the end - we now have problems with 1 year old who has suddenly started waking up in the middle of the night - it's always a constant battle isn't it!!!