I need help!

CJF2007

My daughter will be 2 in June and I'm due with baby #2 in June. We wanted to go ahead and get the transition out of the crib overwith before the new baby gets here so we put my daughter in a twin bed with bed rails and all that good stuff. The first 2-3 weeks went really good. Now after her schedule getting a little off from spring break she will not go to sleep in her bed or stay in her bed all night. If we give in and put her in bed with us she will go to sleep. I don't want her to think this is ok to happen every night. I have tried putting her back in bed only for her to come right back to our room. I have tried laying with her in her bed until she is asleep only to have her cry as soon as my head hits the pillow in my room. Have you mom's found any miracle to get a toddler to stay in bed? Being pregnant, working full time and getting NO sleep is not working for me right now!

I'm usually just a lurker and have never posted on this board before so any advice you ladies have will be much appreciated. TIA!

darva

I had this same thing happen when I was around 6m pregnant with my youngest... It was so so tiring!  She had been in a bed already for a long while... but she started not going to sleep on her own anymore and not wanting to be in her bed alone.  I eventually (unfortunately not til after Samantha was born) put her in her bed and told her she was not allowed to come out until it was morning.  I had been in her room for over an hour at that point and she would not go to sleep.  She cried herself to sleep the first night.  It broke my heart.  The second night, we read a book then I told her it was time to go to sleep like a big girl... She cried but only for about 5 minutes.  The next night, no tears.  I'm not typically a 'cry it out' kind of person, but we were beyond having anything else working.  So... it worked.  She's only gotten out of bed once or twice since then (probably going on 3 months now).

I don't know how willing you are to do that, but it worked for us.  

Nanner

Ditto Darva.  We kept putting her back to sleep and lettting her cry it out.  Whenever she'd get up, we'd just take her right back without a word.  A couple of times she tested us and got up repeatedly for like 2 hours, thinking it was a game.  It was infuriating.  But she eventually tired of "the game" and got p.o.'ed!  The crying didn't last for too many days though.

Even now sometimes we wake up to one or both of our kids in the bed with us, but if it actually wakes me up in the middle of the night, I'll take them back.  My daughter may cry, but she's done after a minute or two.

Good luck!  That was an extremely trying time for us.