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Does anyone have any tips on how to get my 17 (almost 18) month old to sleep in his own bed? We’ve co slept since he was 3 months old, contact napped until he was 8-10 months old, and he’s napped in our bed ever since. I tried with the crib I really did and he just never took to it. I tried again a few weeks ago to get him to sleep in his crib but he wasn’t having it. I rocked him to sleep and laid him down and he slept in there for about an hour/ hour and a half but after his first wake up there was no way he was staying in there. The next night he wouldn’t even go to sleep because he knew I was going to put him in his crib again 😅 I love co sleeping but we have another little one on the way (who I will be approaching sleep way differently with) and want him to be in his own bed by the time they get here. I’m thinking floor bed? His thing is that I have to lay down next to him until he falls asleep and then I can sneak away. But if anyone has any tips on getting him to sleep in his crib this late in the game I’m all ears! I was also thinking of turning his crib into a toddler bed but I feel like he’ll just roll off. Let me know what you guys think! I’m at a loss here lol.

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Oh also want to mention that he sleeps WAY better when it’s just either his dad or I in the bed and not both of us because then he has his own space. So I think he’s ready to sleep alone and I think he’ll sleep way better it’s just new and scary and different for him and I don’t know how to approach it 😭

I would do a floor bed make sure the room is dark and stay with him but don’t lay with him eventually he will get use to sleeping by himself

I highly recommend a floor bed. My son never took to his crib either and the floor bed allows me to lay with him until he falls asleep and then sneak out. The kind we have is full size with a fence all the way around, so there’s plenty of room for me to comfortably be in there with him and he doesn’t fall off or try to climb out, even though he probably could but he just doesn’t even attempt lol

Get ur toddler in to a routine of sleeping in their own bed. I coslept with my Daughter too till a month ago. but I would place her in her playpen at night in my room and during the day I'll put her in her toddler bed for naps till shell fall asleep in there then after we got our own place I took her playpen away and put her down for naps In her toddler bed, then started to put her there at night with her night light on and sometimes me and her dad read her a book till she sleeppy then we sneak out and put the baby gate up at her door, if she cry's I let her cry then she'll play with her toys and then when she's ready she'll get back in to her bed grab her sippy cup and sleep till 530am

Did this with mine (she was about 10 months tho),would put her down in her crib, have a chair, sit there & lean over in the dark room with a lot of very slow, rhythmic patting on her back while repeating very low, soft reassuring phrases at times like, I’m here with you, I love you, you can fall asleep. It could take a while of course but it ended up helping. I dont think she took to it right away but I kept trying & it eventually helped her calm down & sleep. I think it helped her feel I was there & helped the transition into her crib. Since yours will get up much more at this age, look up the pick up put down method. I used this when I was ready to stop sleeping in her room. It was exhausting for about 5 nights, then got better! Hopefully one of these ideas, or a mixture will help

We have a floor bed and in the beginning I laid on the floor beside his bed with my hand on his back . So he knew I was still there .After about a week or so he was comfortable going to bed on his own at night without me. But it started with me laying him in his bed during the day for nap time so he could see it as “ his bed”. So I think that helps as well. Routine is also important at night, I try to keep it the same as much as possible every night.

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