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Originally Posted by Bingo
our 2.5 year old has hit the skids when it comes to sleeping. Tough age in that she's no longer a baby in a crip, nor old enough to completely coverse with leaving a lot of guess work.
She doesn't seem to want to be along in her room ... at the start or if she wakes up during the night.
She has a regular bed that she can get out of, and she can open the door now. She has a sound machine and has had one since she was 6 months.
We're doing everything we can to not let her in our room, but it's slowly killing the two of us in sleep deprivation.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
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We just went through this and it was very hard on us both at the start. I don't know if we fixed it the right way but it seemed to work.
When we switched to a regular bed we had the same problems. She just wouldn't sleep when it was bed time. So we started putting her to sleep in our bed to begin with, lying with her for a few minutes until she fell asleep. Then when we went to sleep we would put her back in her bed. This was hard at first because she would wake up in her bed calling for us but she eventually got use to it.
Then we started putting her in our bed without lying there. Gave her her milk, blanket, stuffed toy and told her it was sleep time. That was hard because she would get up and come downstairs and say "morning time" and pretend it was morning. But with persistence she would go from the bath to our bed and fall asleep on her own. This is where we're at now.
Next plan is to switch our bed to her bed. I'm sure it will be a little hard but making big changes to their routine in small steps is what we have found to be effective.