Great sleeper turned into clingy bed sharer

[knittynoodle]

DS has just turned one. He was a great sleeper up until 3 weeks ago when we both got ill. It was flu and so has gone on and on, he wouldn't sleep flat and then he wouldnt sleep in the cot at all, and now the situation is that he goes down in his cot fine, as he used to.

Except now he will wake at 1am and scream his face off to come into our bed like he did when he was ill. I really don't mind this too much except that Daddy is a large and clumsy man and he feels its not safe.

We tried leaving him to cry and settle back down but we share a room because we dont have enough bedrooms, and so he can see us and keeps on crying.

I just need to stop him waking at 1am, OR manage a way to settle him back down without him getting into our bed.

Any suggestions would be great.

Ive decided, earlier naps are the way forward. Ive moved his morning nap back to 10am (it had crept to 11.30) so we'll see if that makes a difference. Hopefully it should stop him waking up!

Well, that didn't work. Looks like we are co-sleepers now until things change.

Thanks for the advice though. Helped a lot.

Hello! Sorry no one replied with words of wisdom ! I don't have any words of wisdom, I'm afraid- I have a 21 week old who is VERY clingy at the moment and is driving me bananas! Re. co-sleeping, could you have: baby, you, DH so that DH is away from baby and it is safer (would DH feel better about this?)- you could get a bed rail to go on the other side of DS?

Hopefully someone else will post with more advice- I am really struggling too... DD insists on being in with me (DH in a different bed, which isn't ideal) and I don't sleep very well with her there, but it's the only way to get her to sleep...

Hang in there... people say it gets better!! (And you certainly aren't the only one in this situation)

HTHx

Yep, now that -Ive talked DH into it- we've come to terms with the bed sharing, Im ordering a rail so he can go on the outside between me and the edge.

It won't be forever and I'm sure eventually he'll go back to before (7 - 6, no breaks). He still goes down in the cot, its just the waking up and not resettling. Maybe its teeth, milestones, who knows. Im happier now DH agrees letting him in with us isn't 'naughty'.