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Toddler sleep and seperation

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Mummyto3under3 · 05/12/2019 02:11

new here looking for help my two and a half year old won't sleep In her own bed anymore she user to be great slept on her own bed would be okay not to much of a tantrum if I left her with other family members for a few hours but all that has completely changed since about this time last year bit of background i had twin girls early last Oct spent about a week I'm hospital with them before I came home 6 weeks later we had to move from house we had been in since our 2 1/2 year was born I fully understand this can be a huge amount for someone so small to deal with but fast forward a year later still having a complete meltdown if I try to leave her with family members or getting her to sleep In her own bed we seem to be taken one step foward and two steps back I love her to pieces but I'm utterly exhausted and desperately need a good nights sleep, we have tired moving her when she's asleep but 9/10 she will wake and start crying which I'm turn Wakes our two youngest any help at all would be greatly appreciated

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gonewiththerain · 05/12/2019 02:49

Have you tried staying in bed with her then sneaking out when she falls asleep.

Bluerussian · 05/12/2019 05:34

I used to let mine sleep with me, it wasn't a problem and doesn't last forever. I can see you could possibly fear ending up with three children sleeping with you :-), however the chances are your eldest one will get to like being in her own room after a while. She is very little right now though and needs to be close.

Mummyto3under3 · 05/12/2019 06:13

I have tired staying with her till she's asleep maybe four or five times in the last year it had worked but if she wakes at all during the night even for a minute and knows I'm not there she's straight Into my bed, which is exactly what had happen tonite 😅that is what I'm most afraid of if all three of them get on the habbit of been in my bed I'll be never get sleep, Hopefully it will happen that she eventually settles in her own bed but when I've been trying so hard for months to get her into her own bed it cn feel like a losing battle 😢

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MsChatterbox · 05/12/2019 07:52

Are you struggling to sleep whilst she's in bed with you? If so, do you have room to set up a little bed for her in your room that she can go into in the night? Our 2 year old used to sleep through in his own bed but suddenly is spending half the night in our bed which I'm just going with as I sleep fine with him to next to us.

Mummyto3under3 · 05/12/2019 11:43

I'm finding it hard enough as she moves so much in her sleep we could put her to sleep between us but could wake up to find her at the top of the bed across the pillows tired and tested she refused to sleep in it kept climbing from her own bed to our bed,

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