Getting 3 year old to sleep in own bed

[m1r14m]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to get my 3 year old to sleep in her own bed all night. She goes to sleep fine but wakes up early hours of the morning and won't go back to sleep unless she ends up in my bad and I want to stop this habit during this lock down so when I go back to work and she goes back to nursery we are in a good sleeping routine. I just can't seem to get her to stay there and I never sleep when she's in my bed!

Any advice,

Thank you

Hi M1r14m,

Just wanted to ask if your circumstances have now changed or any better?

Unfortunately I don’t have any advice to offer as we are going through the same thing 😢so really feel your pain, this has only started to happened to us since lockdown, before that my son would sleep through.

It’s confusing what to do for the best with their daily routine changing so substantially!

I could have written this post myself! My 2.5yo is terrible atm! We can only get him to sleep on the sofa and then carry him to bed, and if he wakes up at any point in the night, that's it game over, we then have him on a mattress next to our bed for the rest of the night, but he usually wakes again at some point and just climbs in with us 😩 he just hates being in his own bed for some reason? Was fine before lockdown, I think his back teeth are coming through and causing him a bit of bother but it's been a few weeks now and getting worse!
Sorry I'm not helping but good to know your not the only one going through this!
Xx

I've been trying a new night time routine and for the past two nights she has slept in her bed all night without coming through!😅 Firstly I've been giving her no tv or anything for the hour in lead up to bed time and tried to do small learning tasks or playing with her instead! Then I've been putting her to bed with two stories and leaving her to put herself to sleep and she's been wonderful! I also bought a groclock and it's amazing!!! You set the time you would like your child to get up and there's a little owl on the screen that sleeps when it's bed time and then the face turns yellow and the owl wakes up when it's time to get up, so now she knows if she wakes and it's still blue that she is to go back to sleep! It comes with a story book and it's also a night light and she absolutely loves it so I would highly recommend it!! Hope this helps you both as she's so much less grumpy during the day now she's getting a full sleep instead of a disturbed sleep!😅😅