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cant help with sleeping in the room together my boys still dont! ds2 gose to sleep on the couch and is then transferd to bed, he did wake threw the night and sneak into my room, he eventualy grew out of it at arround 2.5 yrs. dd1 is back in her bed almost everynight now df just kept putting her back in her cot till she stayed there. (he put her back as id get up to her cries and put her in with us!) am about to start this week with the girls in the same room.
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She may be a little young for this, but what do you think about a sticker chart? If she stays in bed until (insert whatever you want) she gets a sticker. Likely a bit age inappropriate but it is an idea.
Other than that, putting her back to bed every single time. If you do that for a week, then you will hopefully see a difference. It needs to be every time though and for that week, can be both very physically and emotionally draining.
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I can't give advice cos I'm currently sitting here in bed feeding the baby, with Dd2 next to me and DS next to her lol
We bribe them to stay in their beds - they get 10 cents for every night. Looks like kelti gets her's this morning and Aricyn misses out lol!!!!
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DD1 is the one coming into our room (Maybe I mistyped that in the OP?)
LOL Thats gold!
We are doing a sticker chart with DD1 - not that there is many on there LOL
I just keep telling myself she will grow out of this soon...... i hope....
You were RAK'ed in 2015.
Both our girls share a room. And because it is just me doing the bedtime routine most nights. I have given them both the same bedtime. Its so much easier and they both like going to bed at the same time as the other. Also means I am kid free at the same time every night. Only downside is that now I am missing out on my one on one time with DD1, But we make up for that in other ways now.
So I would either gradually bring back DD1's bedtime and maybe try and make DD2's bedtime that bit later??
As for coming to your bed at night, we always end up with both girls in our bed at some point during the night. My thinking is that I should enjoy the cuddles whilst they last cause in a couple of years they will more than likely never want to sleep in our bed etc...
Good luck tho!
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We have just managed (I think!!!) to get DD to sleep in her room all night. About two weeks ago (there's a thread I wrote about it), I put a mattress in her room and I slept there for four nights. Each time I busted her getting out of bed, I'd put her back into her bed, let her know I was there and she'd go back to sleep. Then for another couple of nights, I started in my bed. When she got up, I took her back to her bed and spent the rest of the night in her room. Then we had a night where she just cried out, so I went in to settle her and returned to my own bed. The last three nights, she has slept through. She comes into our room at around 7am. She hasn't cried out or tried to get up. So far, and I know it's early days, it's worked. The last time she slept solo all night was back in November, and that was for one night. I don't know how well this will work with having two kids. Good luck with whatever you try
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Hi... sorry to hear youre having such a problem. I have my 3 girls in the one room. DD1 was a little like your dd1.... in and out all night til she fell asleep and would creep into our bed and sleep with us. Any time we put her back she would have a massive tantrum which is not something we wanted during the wee hours. It took us ages to get her like she is now (a kiss, cuddle, goodnight, close door). I was so sick of having to put her back all the time so I resorted to sitting with her in the dark for ages until she would fall asleep. Then we did story time in the dark, we did counting, singing. Sometimes I would sit there with her for a few hours. It was pretty crap actually.... I wasnt enjoying her at all at nights. ABout 6 to 8 months ago, she just decided she could do it. She was about 3.5years old.
As for nights we made a rule of no kids in with us until after 6am unless they were sick. So we just kept putting them back to bed.... with dd1 we always had to lay with her til she fell asleep... she also grew out of that,
DD2... just went with the flow of it all and when she went into a bed at 18 months she was a bit of a pain to keep in but got the hang of it.
DD3 is only 6 months old....
One thing I would tend to agree with if they are sharing a room is to keep their bed times the same. That way they can talk to each other, tell each other to be quiet... And then you dont have to do 2 seperate routines... you get to finish up with the both of them and have some well deserved you time. I hope she works it out for you real soon.
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