Dd's 2 1/2 and has always slept in her cot quite happily until a couple of months ago when she had an awful chest infection and inflammation on her lungs and coughed and coughed for hours in the night. As I was worried and she was upset in the night I started to sleep with her on a single mattress in her room from when she woke (usually 2am-ish) until morning. Now she's much better but is still waking some time in the night and needing me to lie with her in order to get back to sleep. In a way I don't mind as I like lying with her but I think it's having an effect on all her sleep in that she now protests at going to bed initially and asks to sleep with me which I can't do at 7.30pm. I won't start a habit of lying with her until she's asleep then transferring her into her cot as I don't think that's fair. If I do try to get her to just settle in the cot in the night she gets totally hysterical and cries and screams for ages whereas otherwise she goes out like a light with me on the mattress and sleeps until about 7.30am.
What would you do? Is it possible to half co-sleep without it scuppering sleep routines altogether? Or do I just have to tough the screaming in the middle of the night out?
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mummylonglegs · 26/03/2005 21:06
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