My almost 5 year old will not spend the night in her own bed, that she has been sleeping in since she was ~2. She has always been super duper clingy, but this is ridiculous.
She starts out in her own bed, but is super duper clingy when we put her down ("Mama snuggle me. Snuggle me some more.")
Now she's waking in the middle of the night (2 am-ish) and wants to sleep with me. So she climbs into our bed, on my side, and snuggles up to me. That leaves me in the middle of a 5 yr old + my dh. I cannot sleep in the middle, between 2 bodies. Honestly, I sleep my best in a twin bed, by myself.
There is no room on my side for a mattress on the floor. Dh's side is right by his closet and he needs to get himself ready for work in the am before I'm up some days. Plus he's a bit of a slob and I like stuffing all his stuff into his closet and shutting the door.
In the past we've gotten her back into the swing of things (like when we return from a vacation or something) by tell her 3 nights in a row = some reward. This time she picked the reward (ice cream at a fancy ice cream place) and then last night when I reminded her of the reward she told me she knew about it, but would rather be with me. It didn't matter.
I have recently started back to work (summer more or less off), but this began before the job began. I can't live on coffee.
Ideas?
She starts out in her own bed, but is super duper clingy when we put her down ("Mama snuggle me. Snuggle me some more.")
Now she's waking in the middle of the night (2 am-ish) and wants to sleep with me. So she climbs into our bed, on my side, and snuggles up to me. That leaves me in the middle of a 5 yr old + my dh. I cannot sleep in the middle, between 2 bodies. Honestly, I sleep my best in a twin bed, by myself.
There is no room on my side for a mattress on the floor. Dh's side is right by his closet and he needs to get himself ready for work in the am before I'm up some days. Plus he's a bit of a slob and I like stuffing all his stuff into his closet and shutting the door.
In the past we've gotten her back into the swing of things (like when we return from a vacation or something) by tell her 3 nights in a row = some reward. This time she picked the reward (ice cream at a fancy ice cream place) and then last night when I reminded her of the reward she told me she knew about it, but would rather be with me. It didn't matter.
I have recently started back to work (summer more or less off), but this began before the job began. I can't live on coffee.
Ideas?
