My 2 year-old keeps coming in my bed every night. Most nights either myself or my husband put her back, but I know some nights it doesn't happen which totally makes me feel like it's my fault that she keeps doing this. I am pregnant and am usually so asleep I don't even know she comes in. I've tried locking her door and putting a monitor in her room, but she shares a room with her older sister so if she cries from the door being locked she wakes up her sister. I've also tried putting her in the crib (she sleeps in a toddler bed) when i put her back to bed, but then she just screams and cries so much that she almost makes herself sick and just keeps me up and like I said I am pregnant with number and just exhausted. Any advice?
I wouldn't bother and would just let her stay with you.
But if you really want her to stay in ask her why she wants to sleep with you. Maybe she's worried about attention that the new baby will get and talking to her and reassuring her that she will still be loved will help.
Does she have a special soft animal or doll to sleep with? There are some neat light up turtles and other animals. Maybe a new soft animal might do the trick. To break this, I would keep the door locked and let her cry it out. If continues for a real long time, go in there and make sure she is okay and isn't sick. In my opinion, it would be better to nip this in the bud then to let it go on, especially before the baby arrives.
Have you tried music? My Son loves music boxes, we have several in his room that we play when he goes to sleep. What about a sound machine? Have you tried one of these, you can play several different types of soothing sounds that might help her go to sleep and hopefully stay asleep.
We're switching my son to his big boy toddler bed next week (or whenever the bed conversion parts come in). I too have been worried about this. I've been strategizing this in my mind. I wonder if it would help if you put up a baby gate in the doorway. That way she would be able to see on the other side.
My friend had the same troubles with her 2 1/2 year old. They tell her that if she won't stay in her bed then she has to sleep in a pack n' play. They put the pack n' play in another room because she too shares a room with her 1 year old brother. She hates the pack n' play. It works about 2/3 of the time for them.
Good luck!
Wait for the next weekend or put your older daughter in a different room and put her to bed and shut the door she will cry then go put her back in bed and don't say anything. It will take a couple of nights we had to get our son one of the door knob covers because he would get out of his room. There are some nights that he wakes up but we just put him back in bed and shut the door.
I noticed your other post try not to change everything right now. We were going to wean our son off of the pacifier before the new baby but it didn't happen like that. I would fix this first. And limit the other for a while.
Good luck!
My 2 yr old son does this every single night. In fact, we are getting locks for our 2 older daughters b/c he is interfering with their sleep b/c he goes there first and wakes them up. We are downstairs, and I will admit that I do not feel like getting up and going upstairs when he does it (if I even realize).
I wish I knew what to do b/c I hate that he isn't sleeping uninterrupted. I know that it is after 2 am most nights b/c I usually stay up past midnight and then take a while to fall asleep.
I don't agree with putting him to bed in our bed every night, but I haven't worried about him coming in later as much. But the waking up both girls first and then coming down after they tell him to go to us (b/c he climbs on them, talks, orders them around - "can you get my water" for ex- and then is restless).
You need your sleep while pregnant. I wish I had an answer...
