My daughter simply doesn’t want to be on her own. When she was a baby she had no problem sleeping, in fact I was the mum people were envious of, 11 weeks old and sleeping through! Went to bed no probs, not a peep.
Until she hit 4 years old. She started walking into our room tapping me on the head and trying to get in our bed. I was pretty good, most of the time I would just walk her back into her own room and tuck her in and that was that. However this became like 7 or 8 times in the night. Walking through the house with her. We both work full time so this was becoming a problem and we were all becoming so tired with it. One night my husband simply picked up her single bed and brought it into our room (lucky we had a large bedroom at that time) and plonked it at the end of the bed and things got better, we all managed to sleep through the night. Happy days!
Last year we moved house, daughter was 6. We made a big deal about her new room and she was thrilled and felt like a big girl to be sleeping in her own room again. And she did it, she just slept though with no problems..... until about 3 months ago. It has started again, getting up walking in, I take her back to bed and so on, but about 5 times a night, Fatal mistake made as we then decided that she would just sleep with me and husband would sleep in her room! So here we are, now trying to get her back in her own bed again. She has no problem getting to sleep and the bedtime routine is so routine, shower, book bed, granted I do have to lie with her until she falls asleep but that has always been the case. Bedtime is easy, she bobs off within 5 mins! It’s after that, around 2am it starts and she’s got to the point wherr me just walking her back isn’t enough. She is so upset and says she’s lonely and it’s not fair I have someone to sleep with and she doesn’t. She is now refusing to go back to sleep and I can’t handle the battle at 2am. Any ideas?thanks x