Help with co sleeping.

I think co-sleeping is a really tough one to wean from. My friends who co-sleep are still co-sleeping their 6yo in one case and 3yo and 6 mo in another case. They got bigger beds.

Could you get one of those single beds that folds out into a king size bed. When she wakes you/dh could sleep in there until she gets more used to it, maybe she'll start waking less/later. Have it set up as a king until she's better in there. She's probably too young to get her buy in to a cool room but that can work - decorate the room in their favorite theme/colour, duvet etc. Could be a good thing closer to 2 make a big deal about big girl bed etc.

I should have added that he is 5 now and she has been trying to wean him off co-sleeping since he was 2.

How old is your oldest daughter? Would it be possible to put the 2 girls together? I've heard people who were able to end co-sleeping by moving the youngest (who was still co-sleeping) in with the older sibling.

The no-cry sleep soln for toddlers has lots of ideas on this. I can't remember what they were cos I don't often co-sleep so it's not really relevant to me, but thought I'd recommend it.
I know my folks weaned my sister off co-sleeping by having 2 single beds in her new room and having my dad bunk in there for a week or so until she was used to sleeping on her own. She was over 3 though.

I can't help either because ours are still in with us. But are you able to have her sleep next to your DH ? Or settle her to sleep then move her over ? Then you still get a bit of a break .

Well we seem to be making progress. She is settling back to sleep when she realises that I am right beside her....in my own bed and she is in hers, we have had three nights so far where she has had a few wake ups but gone back to sleep.

I have managed to get her sleeping alone during the day. I can now put her down in the cot awake and she eventually goes to sleep with little fuss. So it seems that sorting the day sleeps have helped greatly with night sleeping.

Pudgy, DP is not aware of anything when he is sleeping! He would likely let her fall out of the bed LOL.

I'm a big fan of co-sleeping - we've been doing it for 2.5 years but it does have its difficulties. I have tried getting my toddler to sleep in his own bed, with some success, but I found it didn't make him sleep any better and it just meant I had to keep getting up in the night. The only thing I've come up with to make it work is a lot of juggling and bed-swapping.

I first started putting my son in his own room for day naps, around 18 months and he was fine with that. Around 2 years, I started putting him to sleep at night in his bed and he'd wake up in the early hours and come in with us. He's now 2.5 and has gone back to sleeping in my bed, (only because since the weather has gotten colder, for some reason he started getting allergic sniffles in his own room ... maybe some issue with dampness or invisible mould in his room?).

Anyway, we too are expecting another baby and it is too uncomfortable & squashy for my partner and I to sleep with my toddler anymore. What we've been doing is DP has been sleeping in another room and I've been with our son. Since DP works shifts, it's better for him to have his own room sometimes but we need couple time as well.

We want to co-sleep with the new baby, but I also don't want to leave DS to sleep alone if he doesn't want to. So, what we've decided is to set up 2 bedrooms - a superking size bed in our room and a queen size in the toddler's room. I figure that way, I get into bed with my toddler in his own room and when he's settled, go back to my partner. If he has a rough night and I have to sleep with him, at least I'll be comfortable and there will be room for the new baby in there too. It's going to be interesting!