My 3 year old is a cosleeper now, this was never our intention. We have a king, and her little 3 year old body takes up 3/4 of it. She kicks/hits/cries out in sleep. My Dh moves to the couch, she uses my back as a pillow so I can't leave, it's getting too much. BUT we can't keep her in her bed, we try, gosh have we tried, but she just refuses. I'm struggling over here since the baby gets up at least 1x a night still! Anyone similar, anyone solve the problem? I'll take anything I can get!
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I have no solution but just offering sympathy. That's rough.
We have tried bringing our toddler into our bed and it doesn't work well for anyway- same thing that she takes up so much space. We have a crib and a queen size bed in her room so if she wakes up in the night usually DH goes and sleeps in the bed with her (she is still mostly in the crib generally). She sleeps better in her room and then I am only woken by the baby, not toddler kicks too.
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We have our 3yr old in our room but in her own bed on the floor. She seems to like knwoing that we are there and is content not being in our bed.
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Our toddler is and always has been a pretty bad sleeper. At 2.5 she still wakes 1-2 times a night. I am not into cosleeping--I'm too light of a sleeper and I wake at every movement, and she moves a LOT. Our "solution" is not a great solution for the long run, but I'm hoping it's just temporary.
DH and I split night wakings--he takes the toddler, and I take the baby (The baby is in our room). Most night, DH starts off in our room in our bed, but after LO1s first wakeup, he moves to the bed in her room. He can fall back asleep instantly and isn't bothered by her wakeups as much as I am. When she occasionally totally STTN, then he gets to stay in our bed all night--yay! The rest of the time, he ends up in LOs room (she has a queen bed).
It's not my ideal. I'm pretty strict about where I think kids should sleep (alone, in their rooms) and where married parents should sleep (together, in bed in their own room), but I've realized I can either do all the wakeups for both girls myself, my way--or I can let DH do half the wakeups in whatever way he wants. And he prefers to just go sleep in her room, because otherwise, she gets out of bed and comes back to our room over and over and he gets less overall sleep.
I keep hoping that one day she will STTN consistently. One day.
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I wish I had an answer for you, but I feel your pain! My almost 4yo will not fall asleep unless I lay with him until he's asleep and then he comes and gets in bed with me in the middle of the night most nights. I can take him back to his bed and get him back to sleep pretty quickly, but odds are he'll wake up again and we'll have to do it over and over, so most nights I cave and just put him in the bed with me. He has to sleep ON me, so needless to say, I don't sleep once he's in the bed.
I'm desperate for sleep too, and don't have any answers. Hugs from a mama who feels your pain!
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My 3 yr old would always climb into our bed in the middle of the night too. She would fall asleep in her room but end up in ours. We would just walk her back with no fuss. Over and over and over again. She still comes in sometimes but it has stopped somewhar
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