6 times..she's preparing me for a newborn

My2Beauties wrote: OK so the other night, Hanna woke up 6 times and came downstairs trying to get in bed with us. She was doing really good at sleeping upstairs and then it started again, I think it's because she got away with it for a while and I'm trying to keep her upstairs in her room because when the baby is born she'll be up a million times a night anyways, I don't want or need two of them up all hours of the night. I dont' know what to do to stop it. She says she's not scared of nothing up there, she just wants to sleep in our bed it's sweet that she wants to sleep with us, but at the same time I want her to be able to sleep by herself. I'm so scared that she'll be 10 and in bed with me. DH's little brother is 10 and still sleeps with his mom and dad most of the time I can't handle that.

gr33n3y3z replied: its cute that she wants to sleep with you but your right your going to have to stop her from her visits to your bed.
I just use to take the kids back to bed and tuck them in everytime they did that and told them there isnt enough room for all of us and they have a nice comfy bed to sleep in

CantWait replied: Anthony still does the same thing every once in awhile when daddy is away. He loves sleeping with mommy. What about making it a special thing once a month or something like that if you don't mind it. Mark it on the calender and count down.

If not I guess ya just gotta keep tucking her back in. Hope it stops soon.

A&A'smommy replied: OH goodness It is frustrating I know how you feel Alyssa still gets in the bed with us sometimes. I'm sure if you are consitant with her until the baby comes that she will stop

MyBabeMaddie replied: Aww see I cant wait for Maddie to come crawling into bed with me but I'm sure it would get old fast I likee to spread out and need my space. I hope you get your reest you'll be needing it in a few months!

paradisemommy replied: we used a sticker chart for bribery..i told him that he would get one sticker a night for every time he stayed in bed the whole night and didn't get up and once we collected 7 in a row that i would take him to the toy store and he could buy whatever toy he wanted (he was just as happy going to the dollar store toy section)..worked like a charm..i bought him 2 new toys (different times) then it kinda wore off and he's been sleeping in his own bed from that time on..

My3LilMonkeys replied: I have the same problem with Brooke....we let her get away with it for a while because we all enjoyed the snuggling and it makes it that much harder to get her back in her own bed. What is working for her is she's very big into the idea of being a "big girl" and we told her big girls sleep in their own beds.

MoonMama replied: I'm not looking forward to this.

Kaitlin'smom replied: I dont even know how you can stand to have her on a different floor at night, it would scare the heck out of me, If you dont want her in bed with you then you have to be firm and consistant. Kaitlin will sleep with me on occasion, I dont mind but if she were to try and make it a habit I would have to put a stop to it cause when she comes to bed with me DH will sleep in the other room.

My2Beauties replied: Its not that I mind it because she's so cute to snuggle with and it's cute when she comes in there and looks up into your bed with those big ol' green eyes of hers. It really truly doesn't bother me per se, but I don't want to create a bad habit that will begin to bother me ya know later on in the years. It's been a few days, we've started just letting her sleep on the couch at night, she'll sleep upstairs when Desiree is here. That's fine with me, she doesn't have to sleep upstairs I just don't want her to get used to always sleeping in our bed. I like the toy idea too. I might try that. It bothered me at first that she was upstairs, but we have a 1 1/2 story home, so our upstairs is small, justr the 2 bedrooms, so I can hear everything she's doing, I can hear their TV's at night if they are up to a certain level, they have to be down really low for me to not hear them. I can hear her if she yells for us or anything, so it wasn't that bad. Our bedroom is right underneath.

luvmykids replied: All three have started this lately too, I'm usually so out of it that I don't even wake up enough to put them back in their bed, I just lift the covers and help them up But it's getting old so I've been trying to do rewards for staying in bed, like strawberries on their pancakes or an extra bedtime book the next night.

redplaydoh replied: Both my boys sneak into our bed sometime during the night. DH says it affects his sleep, but I think I sleep better with all my boys snuggled up to me. I'm going to miss it when they don't come to my bed...
I hope things get settled before the baby comes... it just sounds so cute otherwise.