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3 year old now getting up to come to our bed

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Idolovechocolategimmygimmy · 03/01/2020 08:12

I'm thinking I need to nip this in the bud quickly and would appreciate any advice. I took my daughter who has just turned 3, away to visit family (just the 2 of us as husband was working) for a week. Trouble is I drove all that way and forgot her travel bed. So she ended up sleeping with me for the first time in her life. Home now and you guessed it, she is afraid of sleeping on her own now. After a lot of effort getting her into her own bed, she ran through in the middle of the night scrambling desperately up to our bed so I had a rough night with knees and feet kicking and digging into me never mind her random moaning. Eek. Any advice on how to deal with this? Thanks everyone.

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MountainPeakGeek · 16/01/2020 05:54

Evil mummy alert here. We compromised with ours when they went through this (totally normal) phase. We laid a thin uncomfortable camping mat on the floor beside our bed, with a sleeping bag and pillow. The novelty soon wore off if they were trying it on, but they were close enough to feel totally safe and secure if they were genuinely scared of being alone.

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