I know... terrible habit to get into. But it's too late. Riley's been sleeping in bed with us for about 6 months now. It started slow of course (he would wake in the middle of the night, I couldn't get him to go back to sleep, I have to be at work by 6:45am every morning so it was just easier to put him in bed with me.) DH used to work out of town every week, all week long. Now he doesn't and is really annoyed at DS being in bed with us. We got rid of the crib because he kept falling out on his head and I was worried that he may break his neck! We were given a toddler bed by my father. DS refuses to sleep in it. My SIL suggested that I get in the toddler bed & stay with him until he falls asleep... Riigght... I'm 170lbs + DS who is 30lbs... 200lbs in a toddler bed? Maybe not a great idea. We tried putting him in his room & shutting the door (he can't get it open because it sticks.) Well he just cries until he throws up and then I have to clean up puke... gross. - We're going to be getting a twin size bed soon. I'm not sure that's going to work either.

SO... how did you do it? Anyone else dealing with this?

Oh yeah... I'm okay with him sleeping with us... so I'm sure that's making this even harder for me to do.

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Have you thought about moving the toddler bed in your room? I dunno if that would help any just an idea. Noah wouldn't sleep in my bed and he would beat me up! He doesnt like to lay still hes always on the move

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So do you have to go to bed the same time as him so that he will sleep?
Once your start a routine it's hard to change.
There were times that ds would wake up and come in our room. We never did the toddler bed thing, we bought twins and I would usually just put his lullabies back on and tuck him in, but there were times I would lay with him a few minutes, in his bed not ours.
I would just put him in his bed read a story or whatever your bedtime routine is and if he get up and comes in just keep putting him back, just like on supernanny. It'll be hard at first.

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My daughter comes to our room in the middle of the night. We aren't thrilled about it but we also don't get up and take her back. We are both lazy in that sense.

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Yep... we put it right next to our bed. He wouldn't stay in it.

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Yes... we have to go to bed with him to get him to go to sleep... or lay down even.

We tried the putting him in his toddler bed and putting him back in when he would get up but the thing is, we can't even get him to get into the bed. He screams when we even go near it. We have to physically put him into the bed and he immediately jumps out of it....

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I guess we're lazy too... but I feel really bad about it as well. I don't like for him to be unhappy but I also know that this cannot go on forever.

I don't think that this has anything to do with it but here recently I have been making him take time outs in his room when I cannot get him to calm down. We tried getting him to sleep in his room, in the toddler bed before I started doing that though so I don't think that has anything to do with it.

I know that there is no easy way to get him to sleep in his own bed but I just wish I could find a method that would work for us.

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I'd say you're stuck cleaning up the throw up. Do like what that nanny on TV does. Put the kid to bed. And just keep putting her back in over and over and over and over for hours and hours and hours. I'd do it on a weekend. It will be a hellish couple of days, I'd think.

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That is what I was going to say. I think it was Super Nanny who did that. She worked in stages with the parent sitting on the floor in the room while the child was in the bed. Then she would move back towards the door at different times until she worked her way out of the door.

I put my toddler on a twin bed on the floor. The we bought a frame and I purchased a bed bar which keeps her from falling out. A gate at the bedroom door will help prevent them from getting out if that becomes a problem.

Good luck!

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My daughter will go to sleep in her bed no problem(almost 4) but every other night she wakes up in the middle of the night and climbs in our bed. It is kingsize, and it hardly ever wakes me up, so I wake up in the morning to a suprise. Actually, my husband got the suprise this morning because she peed on him. LOL.
I could deal with letting my little one cry to sleep. I could deal with cleaning up the puke, what I probable couldn't deal with is the little one crying until they puked. But some people can. Everyone is different.
I say hubby should take turns cleaning up the puke.

So did the kid on suppernanny puke?

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