Help me sleep with my three year old.

[Pumpkin_Pie]

I am so insanely exhausted. I co-sleep with my 3 year old and have since he was born. He has never slept without me other than sleeping on his own sleeping bag when we go camping and even then, he crawls into mine early in the morning.

Lately he is such a snuggle bug. He literally can't seem to sleep without being right.next.to.my.body.every.second.of.the.night... . I can pick him up in his sleep and plop him on the other side of my KING SIZED bed, but after a half hour or so he flops over and needs to have his body plastered against mine again. He hasn't always been like this, and I can't quite figure it out. I can't sleep with him on me anymore, but I also don't want to sleep alone, and I know he doesn't either.

Anyone else sleep with a cling-on as well?

[Maluhia]

Yeah, with the clingon I just turn my back and she can cuddle/touch my back in her sleep and I can get some sense of space.

[Llyra]

I don't know if this will help at all, but I thought I'd put it out there. When DD1 sleeps with us (she's older-- 6-- and cosleeps mostly "just for fun") I face away from her, and put a long oversized body pillow between me and her. Otherwise she tries to burrow her face into my neck and ears, and it drives me NUTS.

[Pumpkin_Pie]

I have been sort of thinking of using a body pillow to see if it helps. I have tried turning my back to him, but he just snuggles closer and closer until I have to inch away from him and then he just comes on over to do it again. He also tends to turn horizontal in the bed with his feet against my back, which drives me batty. I am sort of thinking of starting to hop over him in the middle of the night and sleeping on the other side too.

[NiteNicole]

My daughter is 4.5 and she's a heat seeker in her sleep. I get in bed and slowly, slowly I can feel her coming, one foot at a time. First a foot will find me and wedge itself between my knees, then the other leg will flop over, then the next thing I know her face is on my hair and I'm trapped!

Putting even a small pillow between us helps a LOT.