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If you have had a bedtime squirmer....

620 views 2 replies 3 participants last post by  savithny  
#1 ·
at what age did they stop the squirming? I ask because DD (a crib sleeper) likes to roll around in her crib every night while she goes to sleep. It's like a party in there.

She is 2 and we are not sure when to switch to a toddler bed, but it doesn't seem like she's going to be ready for a while (which is fine, just trying to plan because we have another on the way!)
 
#2 ·
DD rolls around her crib half the night, and squirms like crazy when we cosleep the other half. Most nights are manageable, but last night she wiggled at LEAST every 30 seconds, except for an hour reprieve between 5 and 6. I kept dreaming in 10-second stretches... GRRR!!!!! No amount of makeup is going to make me look decent today.

So no advice here, just commiseration.
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#3 ·
DD has not stopped yet at 7. She's an awful bed-sharer. AWFUL. No one in the bed with her gets any sleep. If you check on her in her own bed she's usually sideways or backwards and she pokes and pulls and prods and kicks.

She uses her feet like a lever to move everyone else in the bed over so she can be centered and spread out. She still sometimes comes into our bed in the wee hours of the early morning, and by the time it's full morning she's got half the bed and DH and I (and the two cats) are crammed into the other half. It's a given that I hurt all over and get no sleep.

We were just on vacation and got a room with two double beds. After the first night her bigh brother was all
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about sharing the bed, so we had to build a barricade of duffel bags down the middle of the bed between them.

Needless to say, she went into her own bed full time (we always part-time co-slept at most, with them starting the night in their own bed and moving into ours when/if they woke in the night) MUCH earlier than her brother did.