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Tara - posted on 08/04/2009 ( 4 moms have responded )

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Hi Everyone,

I have two children, a two year old that will be three in November and my one year old that will be two in January. The past few months have been extremely hard for me and my family because my youngest has started sleping in a toddler bed and it has been a nightmare. He is in the same room with his brother, which I thought would help but it is actually starting to disturb t he progress of my oldest child. We have tried everything to keep him in his bed but nothing works. We have music, we keep the bathroom light on, we even asked the doctor what to do when we started to find him asleep on the living room couch in the morning. The doctor suggested we put a gate up at the door. He still wakes up in the middle of the night, all night screaming and crying....what should we do?

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Angela - posted on 08/22/2009

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I have been thinking about getting one of the bed "tents" I don't know..we are still experimenting with the sound machine. I lay with her until she falls asleep-I practice counting to 100 in different intervals lol. It has taken about a week and 1/2 but now when she wakes up at night and we go to get her she just walks back to her bed and wants to be soothed again-last night we didn't have any interuptions (Thank God) I do make her cry it out for 20 min-some times she just goes back to her bed and falls back asleep-sometimes not. However, her twin sister is still content to be rocked to sleep and sleeps fine in the other crib. I am going to let her do this until SHE starts climbing out of her crib-then I guess we will start all over again. I really hope that that will be awhile because I don't want them walking over to each other and waking the other up by wacking her in the head-this is why we seperated them at 9 months! lol

Keisha - posted on 08/13/2009

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Put him back in the crib. He's obviously not ready for the toddler bed.

Caroline - posted on 08/06/2009

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My daughter is 18 months and her bed is in our room. This has its downsides, but in general I think it's gone well because I hear her and can hum a little bit of a lullaby or shush her before she's really awake. Maybe try the toddler bed in your room, and once he is successful there, he can move in with his brother? What about putting something of yours in his bed? My daughter loves to "borrow" mom's pillow. Good luck.

Nicole - posted on 08/04/2009

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The way I got my son to stay in his bed was to simply keep putting him in his bed when he would leave it. Then, after he had finally gone to sleep we shut his door so he could not get out of his room during the night. My son has recently started waking up in the middle of the night crying too and we bring him to bed with us if we simply cannot stay up to get him back to sleep. I know this is probably not the best solution and maybe setting us up for trouble in the future but for now it works, he just wants some human contact.

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