Fix. Up her bed with lots of stuffies, new bedding maybe. Make a routine read a book. Night light or even lay with her at first.
Try the book “No Cry Sleep Solution”
Lots of play before bed get her nice n tired
put your foot down…it will be a hard couple nights
Maybe let her pick out a bed and/or new bedding
Get her excited about having her own space. Have “sleepovers” with her in her room. Spend time playing in there with her. Help her redecorate. Get a lamp that makes shapes on the ceiling for her to watch at night.
And still let her spend some time cuddling with you in your bed.
I’d make sure she doesn’t have any night terrors or anxiety first. That could very well be why.
Let her fall asleep with you then carry to bed
Just keep putting her back into her room supernanny style it lol
Let her pick herself out new bedding and reward with small keeper treats maybe like a toy or crafts or picking out take out at the end of the week when she stays in her own bed all week.
Get her a cool night light that looks like starts on her ceiling or something and tell her it’s only for her room at night that will probably make her want to sleep in there
Watch a few episodes of Supper Nanny you will get it.
With my kids I would lay in there room with them and I pretend I’m sleeping and usually there asleep in 10-15 mins and make sure there’s night light. My kids have a lava lamp and camping tent lights around there room and they take turns picking out the color.
My son and I co slept forever. Said he was always too scared to sleep alone w a light. So I got him a TV set a show and take away the remote so he can’t stay up all night after an episode is over and leave the TV on. Maybe not the BEST method. But it got him sleeping in his own bed
I’ve tired all of the things and still struggle with this with my almost 8 yr old…wish I had some helpful advice…I lay with mine until she’s asleep then sneak off some nights.
Start off by laying in her bed at bed time once she’s asleep slowly get up. Make sure you are on the easiest side to get out. My daughter slept in my bed for 4 years. I was a single mom with no one else but her. Once I got a boyfriend I started laying with her at bed time in her bed it started off slow but we’ve made a progress she doesn’t sleep in my bed. Sometimes in the middle of the night she calls for me to come back. She’s almost 6 and sleeps fully in her bed. You got this just be strong. My daughter likes when I read to her before bed.
Get a night light for her room. Let her pick out some pillows and blankets for her bed. Then lay with her at night until she falls asleep. Put your foot down and don’t give in to her sleeping with you anymore.
I bribed my daughter with stickers when she was 5
Let her pick a nice bedding set, let her pick out a stuffed toy to sleep with and make her sleep in her own bed.
Let her decorate her room (it will comfort her) tell her that big girls and princess sleep in their own beds … show her princesses and stuff give her a sticker chart earn prizes at the end of the week and ask why she won’t sleep in her own bed understand her first then find ways to make her comfortable in her own room
Lay with her in her bed until she falls asleep. Be gentle and don’t rush it.Dont want her to think the reason she can’t sleep with you is the new baby.
spruce up her room a bit…take her bedroom shopping to let her pick out a new blanket and stuffed animal for her bed or perhaps a new picture to put on her wall…encourage her to be a big sister and remind her that being a big girl has special benefits she has her own personal space and get her used to being in her own room before bedtime. maybe a story or movie before bedtime in her room …also reward her with a special breakfast the next day if she stays in her bedroom all night. nothing fancy but simple like chocolate chip pancakes or a waffle with strawberries and whip cream on top
Read her a bedtime story every night
I’d go and sleep in there bed they follow then when asleep I would leave get a night lite mine wouldn’t sleep without night lite
With my older 2 kids (now 21&20), I just put them in their beds and let them have 15 minutes or tv with me in their room, my younger 2 kids (now 15&13) I had to lay with them until they fell asleep and take them to their beds… BUT now I have a 2.5 year old and our beds are pushed together and we co-sleep… I don’t think she’ll ever be in her own bedroom I’m in the same boat as you mama lol
I had same issue. I started laying w her In her bed until she fell asleep
My daughter is turning 6 next month, I got her a new bed last month, it’s still in the same room as me because she is highly clingy towards me. It was tough at first getting her to sleep on her own but she’s been okay with cuddling a bit right before bed and then going to her bed, I tuck her in and give her kisses before she sleeps. I’m her form of comfort and she does have nightmares a lot at night and is terrified of the dark.
I’m just going to say this. I’m 46 and I don’t sleep by myself.
I sleep on the couch. My Wife and my two daughters sleep with their mom. We’re comfortable like this.
Our son is 5 we just got him in his you just have to make them do it sometimes he still climbs in bed with us but it’s getting better we set up a bedtime routine maybe that would help
I’m with you. I’ve got a 4 year old who sleeps with us but has his own full size bed in the same room! But I’m making up his bed with action figures and stuff to help him gravitate toward it before our daughter arrives in November
I lay in bed with my 7 year old till he falls asleep.
We used to put our son in our bed and then when he fell asleep we moved him to his bed. Eventually he started going to his own bed good luck mama!!
I recently got my 3 and 5 years out of my bed. I used a reward system. Every morning they’d get a sticker on a sticker sheet if they slept in their beds. After a couple stickers, they’d get to pick from the treasure chest (it had little toys, hair bows, cool pens, etc). It really motivated them to stay in their beds then the habit just stuck.
First mattress in floor by your bed then across the room then on to her room just small steps
Honestly let my kids sleep where they wanted their whole life
Let her decorate her room, put her in her bed and anytime she comes in your room you get up and put her right back into her bed
It’s just my 8 year old daughter and I so she’s slept in my bed all her life. Now she’s a traveler and grinds her teeth so I don’t sleep at all. I recently started transitioning her to her own room. I lay in her bed till she falls asleep and then go to my bed. I always wake up with her next to me but it’s working. I give her melatonin to help keep her asleep longer. We have gotten to 4am before she comes to my bed so hopefully in a few weeks she will be sleeping through the night.
Some times sleep training is more heartbreaking than it should be u gotta get a nightly ritual where u do the same routine every night and u gotta stick with it amd it’s hard as hell but in the end it will be ok for u and ur daughter amd everyone one will sleep like little babies good luck mom of four boys
Number one is PLAY in her room with her, especially on the bed to show her it’s a safe space. Talk to her about what she may be afraid of and see if you can fix some of those things. My son is 8 and sometimes struggles with falling/staying asleep in his own room. He has a bed tent with string lights inside and I let him keep his light on his room. If he gets up I the middle of the night, I allow a little cuddle time and then it’s back to bed. Just be consistent with it, hun and she’ll get it
It’s going to be rough but a good way to sleep train older kids is by putting them into their bed and don’t engage them (no talking or acknowledgment). When they come back out of their bed you put them right back in bed. It’s a lot of work and can take 3 nights so I suggest doing it on nights you don’t have to do much the next day. Don’t be a push over and follow through with what you say you’re going to do. I know easier said then done. But that’s was the best advice I read about and then later saw on Nanny 911 years ago. You’ve got this
I did a weening process. Moved them to toddler beds in my room, then bought new twin size beds and decorated a room really cute and got them excited about it and stayed in their room until they fell asleep. Then I would tuck them in, listen to a couple songs and leave while they were still awake, now all I have to do is tuck them in and leave, They still come crawl in my bed every once in a while but for the most part they stay in their beds.
Sadly don’t have any advice but this is why I didn’t ever let my daughter sleep in my bed unless there were extreme circumstances…if she was sick she could sleep with me. We live in Florida…if a hurricane was hitting and power went out she was in bed with me but other than that she was in her own bed.
My daughter did this until now she’s 7 now, she stopped doing it coz I went into her room when she wasn’t home and changed it all around and made her room pretty it’s now been like 2 months she’s slept in her own bed
I have the same issue. My husband worked away when she was smaller, and it’s just us, so I wanted her close. She will be 8 in October and still sleeps with me. We have tried several times to get her in her own bed with no luck. At this point, I feel like when she is ready, she will go. Just like everything else. Looking back, I would have done it differently, and definitely if we had a new baby.
Lock her out of your room
Body pillows and a stuffy …my son slept with me till we moved in with my bf (he had his own bed but never stayed in it) I got 3 body pillows and surrounded him then blanket and gave him a stuffy that was special (we picked it together) and told him he had to watch/keep it all night we tucked it in with him … if he wakes up I just put pillows back and tuck him in and he goes right back to sleep
I never understood bed sharing. What’s the point of their own room and bed if they don’t sleep in it. I have four kids… and not once have they slept in my bed. They each have their own room. Kids need their own space.
And y’all wonder why this generation always need a safe place… they aren’t taught independence. Allowing kids to rule the home is sad.
Tell her she’s a big girl and big girls sleep in their own beds. Let her pick out her new bedding. Get her a night light etc.
just keep putting her back in her own bed, don’t talk, no comments, no words, don’t say anything at all, just pick her up and put her back to bed every time. it may take a night or two, but she will eventually stop trying to get in your bed.
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This is exactly why you don’t cosleep to begin with… Or if you do… cut it short.
THE PARENTS CAUSED THIS ISSUE.
I would ask her if there was something she really wanted and if she showed you that she was a big girl and would sleep in her own bed you would get it for her. Like others said maybe fix up her bedroom and then when she went to bed leave a night light on and read her a book as well. Good luck.
Hi I’m a bad mom and I recommend giving her melatonin the first couple nights of sleeping in her own bed. When my now 5 year old got out of our bed and into his own, I’d give him melatonin, lay in bed with him and rub his back until he fell asleep.
I have that problem too except it’s me laying with her in her bed until she’s asleep and she’s 9. She still wakes me up in the middle of the night to lay with her too lol.
It’s gonna be hard. But totally doable. The world she knows at bedtime is you. So start with that. Cuddle with her read play setup a fun nightlight w music. Really make her space cozy with you. Gradual to not not sleeping w her, don’t just quit she’ll never stay in her bed alone. Find a bedbuddy and really talk it up make it so special she just can’t live without it even during the day not just at bedtime. Take her to pick it out.
And doooont do this with the new baby. Intro the big kid bed much sooner
Be like no lol shes 7
The same here! She has 8 years old and still sleeping with me
Well judging by comments I’m a bad mom cause currently my 9 month old is the ONLY one in his own bed. The 2,5 and 12 year olds are all in my bed right now they sleep in their own most nights some nights will even put themselves to bed in their beds. But I am comfort I AM SAFE PLACE and by all means if they are scared or just want mom they are welcome to sleep in my bed MY JOB IS TO PROTECT, ENCOURAGE AND TEACH THEM… and I’m going to teach them it’s ok to come to mom for anything and it’s ok to need snuggles we like to sleep with our loved one, spouse significant other ect. We like the closeness even as adults JUST SLEEPING by the one we love SO WHY deny our children the same?
You really should have done that before the baby. Now she’s going to feel replaced. I personally have my two oldest share a room and they cope by cosleeping with each other. They have their own beds but choose to cosleep. They’re 4&7.
Seriously shes SEVEN. TELL HER TO SLEEP IN HER OWN BED. Magic.
Try to understand the reason she doesn’t want to sleep alone, it might seem so small to you but it could be a big thing to her. Once you know the problem you can try to solve it
Baby steps. Is it possible for one of you (parents) to sleep in her room? I’m assuming she doesn’t want to sleep alone because she never has?
I’d start with getting her in her own bed even if that means you sleeping in there too. It’ll be a slow process as this will be all new and very overwhelming for her. Good luck.
She might also be jealous, when a new baby comes it’s very normal for your other kid to “act out” they’re used to being the only child and they already have so much emotions they’re learning to control, they don’t have impulse control either, the way I look at is every “behavior” is an unmet need, they don’t act that way for no reason.
Its so hard to break a kid from cosleeping. My son is 11 and still begs me to let him sleep in my bed. I don’t but he always asks. Do your best to stick with it. Keep taking her back to her bed if she gets up and comes to yours. Also, if she has tv or music or maybe a night light it might help make her feel not alone. I always slept in bed with my brother and sister growing up and I still hate to sleep alone. Sometimes sound helps to fall asleep easier
Good luck momma.
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I had my 5 year old doing this with a new born
I put blankets on the floor near my bed and put her to bed in her bed ,through the night she would come in and as hard as it was i would tell her thats her spot,on the floor on blankets 3 days later no child coming into our room and she was settled in her bed every night
Worked perfectly as its not as comfy as a mattress
Wow some of you sound like real loving parents. I understand it’s hard but it doesn’t need to be so harsh. A child should be able to come to their parent and at least get some love and reassurance. But any ways what I do with my 2 year old and almost one year old we cuddle and watch favorite shows have milk and snacks while winding down. And after that it’s making sure they are comfortable and consistently reminding that they are safe, putting them back to their bed telling them that they are loved, safe and that it’s time too sleep each time they get up, tell them you’ll see them in the morning when it’s time to get up. With your child being 7 I’d maybe say try talking to them and see if there’s something making them uncomfortable or scared, don’t make them uncomfortable they feel like they can’t come to you in the night. I would research an age appropriate approach to sleep training and maybe child therapy/counseling if you feel necessary. Just like any adults children have feelings that are needing to be taken care of to feel safe and loved.
I’m glad I had my kids sleeping on their own by 1.
Wow. Y’all are judgmental.
My 19 month old sleeps in my bed with my husband and myself. Our 9 year old sleeps on a spare mattress on our floor occasionally.
She’s 7, she’s old enough to understand she needs to sleep in her own bed.
We let the kids pick out their ‘big kids bed”. They both were so excited to sleep in them that we never had a problem with going to bed by themselves. We made it like a right of passage going from the crib to their own bed. Good luck to you!
But it’s hard at that age my daughter did and she was single and when he was 9 he was terrible to hit in his own bed and their was a lot of difficulties with him in school wanting mom there all of the time the Dr said it’s cause he’s a mom’s baby he didn’t even want her boyfriend around either so better start right away before it’s ttoo hard to do it good luck
Does new baby sleep in bed with you? If the baby sleeps in a bed tell her the baby has her own bed and it’s time for her to be in her bed too. Have her pick out her own sheets and blanket make it an adventure!!
3 nights of cry without u going in her room
I’m sorry people are being so rude to you mama. You did what was good for your baby girl and you and there’s nothing wrong with her sleeping with you. Maybe try first putting her own bed in the room with you and then after a little bit you could put her in her room and sit with her until she falls asleep and then leave the room. And keep doing that until she’s comfortable sleeping in her own room. You are her comfort so it’s going to probably be a long transition. You got this
Put her in her bed and say goodnight If she comes to your room tell her to go back to her bed. Eventually it will sink in.
You should of done it years ago I had three and they hardly slept with except if they was very sick with a fever then many ore or two nights and then back to their own bed I didn’t seep well with my kifs kicking around a moving around so they really didn’t slee
I had a family friend whos child was sleeping with them until they were 8, and what they did was buy a double bed and since then she has slept in her own room, dad often worked night shift so she had more space in the big bed with mum.
Try with her sleeping in your room, but her own bed
I couldn’t fall asleep unless I was sleeping with my aunt up until I got into middle school and they didn’t do much beside move me to my bed or she’d lay in my bed until I fell asleep eventually I grew out of it on my own
Give her lots of love before bedtime, turn a nightlight on, keep the door open, if she wakes up in the middle of the night bring her back to her room every time. Could even get lavender & chamomile spray for her room or diffuser.
Absolutely agree . sleep is a learned behaviour , it needs to be taught properly and scheduled to work . People are lazy , they don’t prioritise sleep and it’s importance and then complain when kids cant/won’t do it .
I had this issue, I moved a twin sized bed in my bedroom, broke her from my bed to that bed for a few months. Then moved that bed into a room where she could sit up and see me but she wasn’t in my room anymore. Then I told a Mommy fib and said that 8 year olds weren’t allowed to sleep with Mom anymore they were big kids and had to sleep in there own bed in their room. Lol, it worked for me, maybe you can use some of this to work for you.
Wow is this still happening Yes Of Course sometimes we Parents are just to soft and loving to our children But to get a good nights sleep especially with a little new one you’ve got to be a bit Tough!! Seriously Good Luck
Well first off I agree with some of u.
Keep sending her back to her bed. Parents are the boss.
But another thing is she’s probably feeling left out the baby is getting more attention. It’s a fine line of balance for attention. She might want that alone time with u.
Put a small bed beside yours our oldest has autism and spd, he sleeps in a toddler bed(he’s 5) right next to our bed.
We put a cot at the end of our bed , he slept there for about 6 months and went to his bed on his own
My first born had a hard time too but I didn’t want him sleeping in another room I dont trust the neighborhood
So we bought a toddler bed and put him in there but in our room. He cried at first but now he got used to it.
We put a cot in our bedroom next to our bed. After sleeping on it for about a month she now will go sleep in her “big girl bed”. She’s only 3 but she’s slept with us since day one as well
Just keep telling her she needs to go to sleep in her bed… just say its time for bed. I had to do that with my 5 kids lol
It will be exhausting but you have to keep bringing her back to her bed every single time she tries to come to your bed. You can’t ever give in. If you give in even once she will know that eventually give into her. Read her a story and tuck her in.
No advise as my 9 year old sleeps in my bed and my 19 month old but good luck
Put her in her bed. She will get up a bunch. Send her back. Just be consistent.
Tell her to get out. Your the boss not her. She will learn.
Parents that don’t trailer kids to sleep in their own crib or beds getting older this is what they bump into know that you love your babies and toddlers your kids but you have to put your baby in the bassinet crib toddler bed whatever they have every night make them feel like they’re special and they’re very special so this way I didn’t want to sleep in their own special bed So now you have to train your other baby how not to do the same thing it’s only for the good of you and your husband are there father
Put her in there and lock the door. She will get used to it
Put her in her room, and shut the door,if she opens it or tries to come out or throws a fit,whoop that ass