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When they want to cosleep but you can't!

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MsReprobate · 23/07/2017 12:14

DD is 10 months and has been having horrendous sleep for the past month. Regression + teeth I guess. Who knows. She's in a different room with a bed in it. No night feeds or anything for the past ages. She was sleeping through really well prior to this. Sad

We have ended up getting into that bed with her pretty much every night for the past month or she'd never go back to sleep at all.

So last night was the worst. She slept 7pm till 1, then woke up full of beans. Thrashing around smiling up at me in the cot. Same when I picked her up. So I lay down and she was awake and chatting and grabbing my face for about an hour and I finally got her into a deep enough sleep that I could transfer her back at 3am.

Then at 5 same thing happened. I didn't hear her, DH woke up and said she was standing up babbling happily. Same thing. Eventually he took her into the bed and again, endured an hour of her awake and grabbing his nose/ear/throat before she fell asleep around 6. They woke with the noise of everyone else getting up at 7.

Neither myself or DH can cosleep. Not that she sleeps for an hour anyway so nobody is sleeping during that anyway. But even when she does fall asleep, we can't.

So we are both shattered.

I suspect when this happens to other people they just cosleep the whole night. What happens when you can't? Have any of you any experience of going through similar? Do you just have to suck up the sleeplessness until they get through it?

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FATEdestiny · 23/07/2017 13:38

I would pull the cot up next to the bed in there. Then if she wakes give her the reassurance of your presence by sleeping in that bed in her room. But I would resolutely not get her out of the cot.

I might hold her hand through the cot bars. Or lean an arm over the side of the cot to pat her. But that would be it. Aside from that is just be ignoring her.

MsReprobate · 23/07/2017 13:42

We definitely try not to get her out of the cot. But when it's a wrestling match to hold her down she doesn't give us much choice!

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