Operation Co-Sleeper Eviction - HELP!

[Ginger]

i'm subscribing to this thread as i have no idea how i'm going to evict my 2 little snugglers!

i tried to evict ds1 when i was pg with ds2 but it just never happened LOL

[thepixie]

I've got no idea babes but just wanted to say good luck!!

[Indadhanu]

Two words: Floor bed (for her not you! )

We used a double mattress but thats because thats what we had spare, a single would work too.
It eliminates the side rail problem, which we had. We really sucked at putting her in her cot, she'd end up wide awake because I'm too short to put her in, I'd practically have to drop her in, and she is really tall so she could never coordinate herself (don't ask me why, she just couldn't LOL).

We just fed her to sleep on the mattress and then once she was asleep we got back up. We ended up putting her in her own room at that stage, but if you have room in your room I think it'd work too. And when she wakes just snuggle into her bed, feed her back to sleep, and go back to bed.

I worried about her crawling around, or playing, but its funny, she actually started sleeping BETTER, and we didn't have to get up so early as she was content playing with some toys in her room for a little while until she needed us.

Worth a try anyway.

[Kitt3n]

Thankyou everyone. I am loving these ideas.

Laa actually fell asleep BY HERSELF on the bed for her nap today. Please tell me this sounds like a natural step in the right direction?!

She really does hate the cot so I think we will have to ditch it. I am loving hte idea of a floor mattress (I think we still have the slats from DD1's old bed that we could raise it on). Otherwise I think Ikea have a similar sort of thing?

[Indadhanu]

LOL, or you could just put the mattress on the floor Thats all we did.

If you want a 'real' floor bed, ypu'll find some on Montessori websites.

[~Kim~]

After asking around we did the mattress on the floor thing, but he just wasn't into it. He's gone straight into his bed (a regular single) with a rail because he's so little. I sold the cot before he was one as it was an abismal failure.
Now we've gone and moved on him so we're back to square one but I will get there....

[CrazyLady]

Now we've gone and moved on him so we're back to square one but I will get there....

Funny you should mention that. I went on holiday 2 months at parents and first month was co-sleeping. came back, spent 2 nights in old house fine but then moved and she was back co sleeping until we (gently) relaxed her back.

I layed next to her cot with my hand in it until she dozed then dozed myself on the floor to reassure her i was still there. I dozed next to her cot and put my hand up everytime she woke to grab her hand.