HELP Wont go back down in own bed !!!!!!!!!

[bpato]

Hi

Here is the prob.

DS usually has a bottle and goes down for bed anytime between 5.30 and 6.30pm most nights. We then pick him up and give him another bottle around 9.30 - 10.00pm (which he downs all of it) then put him down for the rest of the night.

He started sleeping through at 3 months but in the last month he has been waking around 2 or 3 am. He doesn't seem hungry or anything and up until about 2 weeks ago he would give me a kiss and a cuddle and go straight back to sleep in his cot no probs.

As of two weeks ago he wont go back down in his cot. I can get him back of to sleep usually with no probs, but within 2 minutes of putting him back in his cot he is awake again. No matter how long I wait to put him down he still wakes up. The only way I have found to get him to stay asleep in to put him into bed with us.

What do I do :confused: I don't sleep well if he is in our bed and I keep thinking that if it continues we will end up with a 21 year old that comes and sleeps half the night in bed with mummy and daddy. I am soooooo tired toooo!!!!!!!!!

HELP!!!!!!! Any adivice or reassurance that he will go back to sleeping through would be great.

Belinda

[fee's]

No advice sorry, some empathy though :hugs: , we are going through the same thing at the moment and I have the same visions of that 21yr old snuggling in with us. :eek:

[ozzysmum]

no advice either, sorry, and in much the same position :yes:

however, to put your minds at rest, my cousin co-slept with her mum every night from birth - would be in the cot til 1 or 2 then in with mum for the rest of night ... it didn't last til she was 21, though... just 13 :eek:

[mumtok&z]

omg! i have the same problem with both my boys, 2 yrs old and 11 months old, and they both wake at the same time! I just sit with them on the couch, cuddling until they are REALLY zonked out. it usually takes about 45 minutes of them sleeping on the couch though. And if they wake up when i put them into their own beds i sit and let them fall back asleep then sneak out of the room. I don't know what else to suggest!

[reAllytee]

Try & stick with what your doing.
Sometimes sleeping patterns change as does everything else you will find as babies like to keep us on our toes ;)
Try & stick with either putting you lo back into the cot or taking him into your bed make it one or the other & stick with it.
You may find that you need to cuddle for longer before he will happily go into his cot.
Or even sitting near the cot so he can see you until he goes off. This was what worked for us & i sometimes have to do it even now. Also sometimes it has to do with the dark so maybe even trial a nite light.
If you do keep him in your bed dont fear i co-slept as a baby & was happily in my own bed at 6yrs unless i wanted a cuddle hehehe.
Good luck :)

[bpato]

Hi guys

Glad to know I am not the only one having this problem.

mumtok&z I try sneaking out of the room and just as I get back into bed he is awake. I am sure he senses that I am not there anymore. This can go on several times before I give up and take him to bed with us. Will try the just sitting on the couch thing too. I will probably fall :sleeping: before him :laughing:

allyoo thanks I will try the night light, we have one but I've never used it. Will plug it in and try it tonight with him, and see if it makes a difference. Will also try just sitting in the room with him. Will have to find an comfy chair hehe (I wonder if my hubby would buy one of those valco recliners for me :confused: )

ozzysmum are you serious about your cousin co-sleeping until 13??????? I hope not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks again everyone, if anyone else has some advice or is going through the same thing let us know, we could support each other through

Belinda

[bpato]

Hi all

He slept through last night YEAH :smiliedance: !!!!!!!!!!! I gave his some natural teething releif yesterday and that seems to of helped him.

Belinda