Bed sharing - what a nightmare (Bed Sharing)

Member Name: dustmad

Product:	Bed Sharing
Date:	20/01/09 (38 review reads)
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Advantages: feeling close to your child

Disadvantages: breaking their normal routine, and they will demand to keep sleeping in your bed

The subject of bed sharing is one which I have no personal experience with, but I do know a friend that has had a great deal of problems with it. I have a 14 month old little boy, who currently still sleeps in a cot, so I don't have the problems that my friend has. Her little boy is aged 2 and will keep climbing out of his bed and come into his mum and dads room to get in with them. He does it every night, and refuses to sleep unless he is in bed with them. If she tries to be strong and say no and keep taking him back to his bed, he throws a major paddy and will wake the whole street with the noise. She has real trouble with him. I recomended her the super nanny book that is available from Amazon.co.uk, and since she has read that it has improved alot. But there is no way around it, you have to be strong willed and keep taking them back to their bed, until their little wills snap and they give in. It nearly drove my friend to dispair, but at least now the problem is much better and he will sleep in his own bed.

Summary: There is no quick fix,get them back into their own beds with the help of suer nanny