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How to get evenings (and my bed) back

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Noona86 · 08/04/2025 20:26

I have a nearly 6 month old. DH is in spare room while baby and I co sleep. This has worked brilliantly up until couple weeks ago - with her sleeping on me downstairs for eve then I take her up to bed. However, don’t know how it works now I’m starting to want evenings back - in part so I can put my older daughter to bed who sleeps a bit later than baby as I miss bedtimes with her. I have tried to leave baby alone in bed after feeding to sleep but she just wakes up every half hour. Have had a few nights of feeding to sleep at 7, then going back and forth to feed back to sleep until I go to bed at 9. I really would like her to be in cot in same room (which she will happily sleep in during day) so my partner and I can share bed again. I have no idea how any of it’s possible! Any tips on how to get her into cot? She’s using me like a dummy at night. But I can also see that when she’s been used to having me so close, the idea of being in separate sleep space must feel rather daunting!

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