5 year old repeatedly coming to my bed

[mamidou]

My 5 year old DS (HFA)keeps coming to my bedroom every single night - he can sleep by himself but comes to our bed every single night. As soon as he comes in, he will jump in the middle and sleep straight away. Sometimes I do not even realise that he is in our bed until my I start experiencing back pain.
When we put him back in his bed, he will sleep straight away; however he will walk back to our bedroom few hours after. When we put him back after 3-4 times, this is when his sleep is interrupted and he wakes up.
We need to tackle this asap- thinking of getting night nanny to train him. Any advice please?

How about a social story about staying in his own bed?

Have tried social story and even bought gro clock- he nevertheless comes to my bedroom every single night. Anyone has a good social story i could try again please?

Seriously thinking of sleep consultant to try and resolve this issue..

Hi, he has pretty much good understanding - he is aware that he came to my bedroom. He is too tall for stairgate - was thinking of lock in in bedroom, but not sure how it will work. He might wake up completely if he finds himself locked in his bedroom.
I tried plain dark room last night and he nevertheless came to my bed - no problems with pyjamas or bedding..

I think when he wakes up, he finds no ones next to him, this is when he will come straight to my bed.
Even when he falls asleep by himself he nevertheless wakes up and come to my bedroom.

Anyone has any good social story to share?

My 5 year old DS (ASD) also gets up every night and comes into our room. He tends to just stand there until one of us wakes up (I am a light sleeper anyway, so usually hear him come in). We take him straight back to bed, which he is fine with, but have noticed he is anxious about the dark, so once he's back in bed we leave the bathroom light on and his door open so he can see. Once the light is on he settles quickly. With DS, it is important to him to know where we are and I think he needs the reassurance of the light being on so he can see the way to our room. He will never go to bed until his older brothers have gone up as he doesn't like being upstairs by himself and always asks if we will 'be going to bed soon' when it's his bedtime.

My ds (5) does not like to sleep on his own. It is being on his own that makes him anxious. No advice as he sleeps with me. I keep thinking that one day he will want to sleep by himself.

My DS does exactly the same. I'm so used to it now that he doesn't really wake me. I am just going with the flow as it's a vast improvement from the way things were and I pick my battles very carefully these days!

My ds is five and still comes into us every night. Up unitl last year he was crying every night, so the fact that he doesn't cry much at night time is huge progress.

As long as he goes to his own bed and falls asleep on his own, I'm not actaully that bothered if he quietly comes into our bed half way through the night.

I remember being scared at night time on my own, and I don't want ds to feel like that.