Still missing DD!

Just a little pout :(

DD used to cosleep with us from her first wake up. Then it got longer and longer and till around 18 months when she was sleeping all night, yay! Then she still slept in our room in her cot.

With the new baby on the way we decided we needed to put her in her room so the baby doesn't disturb her sleep. She has a single bed in there and already had her day naps there anyway. So on the 1st of January she had her first night in there! She was fine! I didn't get much sleep, lol. I'm so proud of her, such a good girl. No problems, sleeps all night in there or sometimes wakes a bit early and comes into bed with us or calls out and we go get her and she sleeps with us for a couple more hours.

So she is doing really well with it! :pray: But I'm not used to it still! lol. I miss her! I miss having her close and being able to hear her breathing when I wake in the night and know she's fine. I have to get up to go to the loo in the night anyway as you can imagine at the moment so I always check on her then anyway. But she just seems so far away.

Did it take other people a while to get used to it too? Even if your child didn't care! lol.

We've been occasionally known to move our 3.5 year old into our bed when we settle for the night ;). And he still comes to visit a few times a week in the wee hours! So I can't really answer your question, sorry. Good going on the all-nighters though! Did you ever think it would happen? LOL

I was the same. The move from my room into their own was fine for them. I was the one missing them. Lucky for me almost every morning, really early or not, my littlest comes in for cuddles with me in bed and either goes back to sleep or just lays with me. I love it.

It took me a good few weeks.

Good luck and hugs. :hug:

I am dreading putting DD in her own bed! I have to do it soon though so my huge belly can have some bed :lol: I love waking up in the morning to her moving my arms so I will cuddle her or giving me huge sloppy kisses!

We moved DS into his own room when he was about 16 months. There were no problems at all as far as he was concerned!
I don't think I slept well at all the first week he was away from me. I was so used to listening to his little snuffly breaths next to me, or noisily sucking away on his dummy and then all of a sudden it was so quiet! About 6 months down the track and we haven't had any issues. I still get cuddles in the morning when he comes in around 6.30 and we doze until about 8, I just hope he doesn't give up on morning cuddles any time soon.

Thanks guys! I'm not the only sooky mummy, LOL! Last night she woke up some time, not sure when maybe 4am or something so we had a bit longer snuggling. She's so cute in our bed, snuggles up to me all night.

Janie- LOL, no I never thought she'd be sleeping through! I should be grateful! I remember wishing she would just sleep all night in her own bed, who knew I'd miss it?

Just think, VERY soon you will be up all hours of the night again and be very grateful that DD is in her own room!!! :lol: :lol:

I missed DD when she went to her own room a few months ago (at 19mths) but she was so fine with it and it just seemed like a natural progression.....I guess I don't miss her too much because some nights she comes in after 1am and sleeps in with us the rest of the night, walks down the hall and jumps into bed with us for snuggles the rest of the night so we still get that time with her :)
You're lucky she sleeps all night for you, cos DD still wakes to come and sleep with us!!

LOL, DD sleeps snug up next to me too, presses her back and head into mine LOL!!

In our old house dd2 and dd3 where both in cots in our room (they are 11 mths apart) and I loved having them so close.
March last year we moved to a bigger house and the girls moved into a room of their own together.
They settled in fine and loved it...me I missed them sooo much.
My ds4 came home in April and filled the spot in our room...he is now a year old and I am in no hurry to move him to his own room.
I love that my girls still come in for 6am snuggles :D

Well, Sunday night poor DD fell out of bed in the middle of the night :( And then yesterday the neighbours came over to tell us that the same night someone had tried to break into their house and they heard them and caught them and they ran off and jumped in a ute that was parked on the lawn in front of our house and got away.

So that freaked me out and DD slept in our room last night :redface: Why is it that the only room in this house without security screens is DD's???? Ugh. So DH is ringing the real estate today to tell them to put security screens on there for us.

Totally know what you mean!

DD1 went into her own room at about the same age as your little one. And by gosh I missed her!
At first she wouldnt sleep in her bed all night, and at some stage she would come in with us. So every night I would wake at her usual time, and wait for her to come in. Then one night she didn't and I freaked out. I just had to go and check on her. And would you believe it she slept through the whole night! Yet I didnt get a wink for the rest of the night. Although I must admit with my rather large tummy at the time it was nice to have just a little bit more room!!

Now both DD's share a room together, and at some point during the night they both come to bed. And the few times that DD1 hasnt, I still havent slept through the night with worry!!

Thats scary about the attempted break-in too!! If it were us we would all be sleeping in DD's room until the real-estate got that fixed!!

Yup I was like that DD2 went into her own room at 10 months because she was a light sleeper, it felt wierd for a long time, but she does come in to bed with us most mornings.

Still not over it :( I hate it! Am I the only weird one? It just feels so wrong that I spend all day looking after her and making sure she's safe and then at night I just put her in another room and leave her by herself for 9 hrs!! Seems so strange to me. But maybe I'll just always feel like this. Can't get any morning snuggles now that DD2 is here because if she comes into our room she wakes her up so we have to get up with her instead, bugger.

I always climb into DD's bed in the morning for a cuddle :lol: We put her in a Queen just incase she has nights where she needs us with her. I don't know what was up with her last night but she actually wanted me in the bed AND cuddling her from 3am. She usually gets too hot for cuddles but likes me being nearby. It was so cute because she'd wake me up by rearranging my arms after I had moved them. I'm getting quite warm when I sleep now so try to avoid additional heat sources.