My kid is sleeping on the floor.

[no5no5]

After a long bedtime story during which she seemed to fall asleep, DD got out of bed, sat on the floor doing a puzzle, declared she was going to sleep on the floor, laid down, and, seemingly instantaneously, fell asleep. Now, she's a kid with chronic, horrible sleep problems, and if I try to move her she will probably wake up and be up for hours (despite the fact that it is already hours past her usual bedtime). If I leave her to sleep on the floor...well, I guess I'll feel inadequate as a mother, and I'll be up all night worrying that she's uncomfortable.

Is this the silliest dilemma ever, or what?

[lmk1]

I'd just let her sleep on the floor. If she was uncomfortable, she wouldn't sleep. For most of human history, people didn't have the modern beds we have today, so there's nothing really wrong with sleeping on the floor, and many people say it's really good for your back.

[emilysmama]

Mine does too all the time, and she doesn't even have trouble sleeping. She starts out on the bed, then migrates to the living room couch, and then ends up on the floor. And we have only hardwood floors! I gave up trying to move her years ago because she would physically resist and protest when I attempted. I have tried sleeping on our hardwood floors myself, and OUCH it is really painful for my back. I often wonder why we bothered spending money for a bed.

[TiredX2]

Ahhh, the floor is not that bad! Take a picture

When we moved to our current house when DD was 2.5 she decided that the place most people would put a TV was "the doggy bed." We did not and do not have a dog, btw. She also decided she needed to sleep there on top of a bed pillow While she never actually slept there she was happy to tell tons of people, "I sleep in a doggy bed." Yeah, I defintely got parent of the year looks

[Dov'sMom]

I slept on the floor much of my adolescence, and I liked it. I'd leave her.

[Letitia]

I slept on the floor sometimes from early childhood through adolescence. I can't really explain why, although it was definitely by choice and something felt good about it. If she's in a safe place, which it sounds like she is, I wouldn't worry about it. But I might leave on a nightlight or something like that, if she doesn't already have on, in case she wakes up and is disoriented.

[no5no5]

Originally Posted by TiredX2

Take a picture

Done.

Did I mention that she's the world's lightest sleeper, and still wakes up several times a night? Oh well, I guess all of you are right. I'll just leave the hall light on and she can wander into bed when she wakes up. Better that than wake her up myself trying to move her.

Now, can anyone tell me how I am going to sleep without my favorite little cuddle monkey?

[TiredX2]

Originally Posted by no5no5

Now, can anyone tell me how I am going to sleep without my favorite little cuddle monkey?

At least it's not winter! This winter was the first that DD consistently slept in her own bed and I was soooooo cold!

[Drummer's Wife]

My kids would sleep on the floor every night if I let them (preferably on my bedroom floor, or in the living room). I don't mind when they fall asleep on the floor, but I get weird about them sleeping downstairs when we are upstairs - so DH or I carry them up.

[no5no5]

Originally Posted by TiredX2

At least it's not winter! This winter was the first that DD consistently slept in her own bed and I was soooooo cold!

True! As hot as it is, I should be happy about this, eh? Anyway, I'm going to try to sleep. I'll report in the morning.

[MusicianDad]

I say let her sleep on the floor. I have a friend who chose to sleep in a closet for about a week when she was a little. Door closed and everything. Not even a big walk in type closet either!

[momasana]

Originally Posted by MusicianDad

I say let her sleep on the floor. I have a friend who chose to sleep in a closet for about a week when she was a little. Door closed and everything. Not even a big walk in type closet either!

I used to like sleeping in the bathtub!

[LynnS6]

My kids regularly sleep on our floor.

They're too big to cosleep, but still need to be near us a couple times a week (dd more like 4 nights out of 5 these days). After about a month last year of us falling asleep on their floors while waiting for them to fall back asleep in their beds, I decided the kids with the young bones can sleep on the floor. So, now they come into our room and sleep on the carpet next to our bed. They're fine.

Your daughter will be fine.

[cappuccinosmom]

Let her sleep. She'll be fine.

For a few weeks my youngest insisted on sleeping on the floor. If I tucked him into bed, he'd get out and lie down on the mat next to the bed. So I let him. And he was just fine. He's also back sleeping in this bed now.

[mazajo]

I went in to check on my 4yo last night and found him sound asleep on his train table! I moved him back to his bed. What is it, the age?

[no5no5]

She's 4.

And last night sat up & cried for me about, oh, 30 seconds after I went to bed. All that worrying for nothing, really. Thanks for the advice, everyone.

[emilysmama]

Originally Posted by mazajo

What is it, the age?

Whatever it is, it's not the age for us. My dd is 6 y.o., and she's been doing this since she was at least 3, with no sign of stopping.

[sewchris2642]

Dylan sometimes sleeps on the floor, sometimes on his overstuffed club chair, mostly on his bed. At various times, his matress has been on the floor, with and without the box springs. When he was 7, he had a platform that went the length of one wall so he could build and sit on it. He decided that it made a great sleeping platform and slept on it for months before he tired of it and went back to sleeping on his bed.

My nephew, when he was 3, would fall asleep on the living room floor at night. My sister would leave the hall light on in case he would wake up and go to bed. He was one that you dared not wake up once he fell asleep.

I wouldn't worry about it.

[Marsupialmom]

Originally Posted by no5no5

After a long bedtime story during which she seemed to fall asleep, DD got out of bed, sat on the floor doing a puzzle, declared she was going to sleep on the floor, laid down, and, seemingly instantaneously, fell asleep. Now, she's a kid with chronic, horrible sleep problems, and if I try to move her she will probably wake up and be up for hours (despite the fact that it is already hours past her usual bedtime). If I leave her to sleep on the floor...well, I guess I'll feel inadequate as a mother, and I'll be up all night worrying that she's uncomfortable.

Is this the silliest dilemma ever, or what?

I would leave a blanket and pillow handy and not worry one bit. ---Ok I would if I had my current dogs. I would lock them out of the room. They would sleep by the child and that would worry me.

[lmk1]

Originally Posted by no5no5

Done.

Now, can anyone tell me how I am going to sleep without my favorite little cuddle monkey?

Aha! I have the same problem. I sleep much better with ds next to me, so I know he's ok ... we've been trying to move him to his own bed, and I'm probably more ill at ease with it than he is.