yep DH and I are not comfortable with either of their suggestions. it didnt feel right to us to either drug him up or let him kick and scream himself to sleep!
we have ducted gas heating in our house but cant use it overngiht as its so loud it would wake DS up. we just got an column heater and started using that in DS's room to warm his room up a bit. we thought it might be the mattress on the toddler bed making him uncomfortable so i put a blanket between the sheet and mattress last night to see if that helped. he still came into us but managed to sleep for 5 hours between being put back to bed and coming back into us.
You are very good not just to go with it. That's what we would do as I value my sleep too much!!!
However the times that we've tried to encourage sleeping in his own bed, we've found that taking him straight back in before he got settled in our bed was the way to go. Otherwise I've found that if he falls asleep with us then wakes up in his own bed, he gets a fright and it's a bit confusing.
Also some type of night light or music thing works well.
I've experienced this with all of my kids and I can tell you for sure that they WILL grow out of it! Some take a little longer than others but seeing as we don't have a 10.5 or a 9yo in our bed ever, there is some merit to that theory lol.
I still get Sir 5 and Lady 3 sometimes come to me during the night. Sometimes both of them together which can get squashy lol. I welcome them with a cuddle and take them back to bed when they are asleep. If I go back to sleep and they spend the night with us so be it
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