Please tell me I've not just made a massive mistake

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DD is almost 6 months and has been a great sleeper. Slept thru for a month or so and nice progress before that.

She has a stomach bug (day 5 in the vomit & diarrehea house) and her sleeping has deteriorated. I was up about a dozen times last night replacing her dummy and rocking her.

Obviously DH and I have both caught the bug so the lack of sleep isn't helping. DH had it bad today - I'm pretty much over it.

So tonight, she went down at 7pm with a bit of a struggle. She woke for a scream/dummy about nine. We went to bed about ten. I was up 4 times in an hour so have sent DH to the spare room and brought DD in with me. She's now sleeping quite happily.

This is on the basis that you shouldn't sleep train when they're ill and it'll all fix itself miraculously when she's better - please tell me it will... How do we fix this?

Give it a couple of days once you are all well and it will seem like a bad memory...sorry you are all poorly, but having her in with you is probably the most restful option, and you can be on hand to monitor her temperature and check on her regularly.

I hope you all get better soon

What a horrible time you are all having. I have done exactly the same in your situation. All my dc now sleep well in their own beds. Hope you are all better soon, sickness bugs are the worst.

I should add that she's been in her own room happily for three months. (Yes, we know the SIDS advice but made the call).

I'm thinking to help sort it:

• get a mattress and sleep in her room / gradual retreat.
• bring her cot into our room and gradually move it back?

I preferred to sleep on the floor in my DC rooms and do gradual retreat. However, we weren't dogmatic about and sometimes brought them in with us.

I honestly think it will be fine. We were/are pretty rigid about sleep routines etc but dd always ends up in with us when she's ill. Just try her back in her own bed tomorrow.