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How did you break your child from doing it?
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OMG...NOT, NOT, NOT easy...and it takes a lot of patience and determination. How old is the child/children doing it?
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we've decided that this baby (#3) will be sleeping with us forever. It will get crowded when she gets married and has her own kids......
She won't go to sleep in her own bed. The crying goes on for hours. Nothing has worked - I have read every book. I think at this point, I am so tired from chasing her and her 3 and 4 year old siblings, that I just can't handle getting up all night. I haven't even tried to move her to the crib in a couple of months. She shares a room with big sister and I was thinking of doing it next week, while big sister is at grandparents for a couple of nights......
Yikes - how did we get into this situation???????????????????
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While baby is still sleeping with you, just please put your baby in a co-sleeper if possible. I recently heard about a dad who accidently rolled onto the baby and it sufficated. Very heartbreaking.
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I am so glad this was brought up today. I'm having the same problem and it's really starting to get old. I thought about trying to get him to sleep with his older brother who is almost 3 (who doesn't sleep well either) but I'm not sure. Who knew this would be so hard!
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We let our fourth child co-sleep..and when I got pregnant again...a SUPRISE pregnancy, we knew we had messed up! He was supposed to be our last child, so it was okay...NOT!! We ended up putting him in his big brother's room...which helped a lot. EXCEPT that he ended up sleeping with big brother about 2/3 the time. He was 2 1/2 when we moved him, and I would say it took a full year to get him in his own bed..and even now, he is almost SIX, and we still find him in our bed a few times a month! Big brother was a good sport, and he is also a solid sleeper, so Riley didn't bother him too often. Another thing we did do for a while was put the crib mattress on the floor in our room..and we made him sleep there if he came in our room...and gradually moved it closer to the DOOR!! We didn't do this long, though, because to me, it was still showing him it was okay to be in our room. He would still sleep with us everynight if we gave him the chance, but we don't. It is a special treat if Daddy is out of town to sleep with Mommy sometimes, but that is it. Oh, and we learned our lesson. We ended up with TWO more babies after him..and both slept in the bassinet and then the crib from BIRTH! They both have never had a problem sleeping through the night in their OWN beds because of it.
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Well, I swore that it would be different with my second but it didn't end up that way. I often think I've really dug myself in this hole, especially if we have more.
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My son slept with us his first couple of months during the night becuse it was just easier with breastfeeding and face it, during the first couple of months, you'll do just about anything to get some sleep! When I needed to go back to work, I slowly started putting him in his crib for naps so he would get used to it. Then at night, I would nurse/rock him to sleep and put him in his crib to sleep. He would stay there until he woke up to eat, at which time I would either go get him and bring him back to bed, or nurse him in his room and place him back in his crib. Granted, I did all this when he was a small baby, not a toddler, so I don't have much advice about older babies! I just make sure to be consistent about Jamie in our bed. There are times when it's okat to lay in Mommy's bed (like in the morning or a snuggle before bed), but I don't let him fall asleep there.
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My oldest girl slept with us until she was 18 months. We just put her in her toddler bed on the other side of our bedroom and sat with her for a week, then the next week we just put her back in constantly until she fell asleep, if/when she came to our bed in the middle of the night we just put her back in her bed. Took 2 weeks she stayed in her bed. After about a month or so we moved her bed and make her her own bedroom. She still comes in bed every now and then and she's almost 4 but normally only if she has a bad dream. my ds slept in his crib, she never would. My baby girl I have now sleeps in her crib and co-sleeps with us about half the time. Sometimes she will sleep in her crib and others she just wants my boobs next to her.
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Hi. I just did it, the younger the better. She was sleeping on her own completely but we had a week of teething and we just got her out (18months). We bought a new bed, and moved our queen size into her room...It's great. She's used to sleeping in the bed, daddy or mommy will go in there will her and wear her down and lay with her for a few minutes then go straight to bed after we leave her bed.
Somestimes she still comes into our bed, but it doesn't happen often.