Climbing out of bed

Hey Nikki, Summer was SUCH a MONKEY with gettin out of bed when I first put her in a big bed, took about three nights of about an hour and a half at a time to get her to sleep, with the constant putting her back in EVERY time!!! They are sooooo persistant kids a!
But it worked in the end, I was about to go insane luckily and was soooooo hard but least she'll go to sleep at home now.

She still gets up in the night and comes in my bed so gonna have to bite the bullet and do it in the middle of the night soon, argh!

hey Nikki, what about a rail? Jake slept over during the day at a little friends house. Apparently he didn't get out of bed once. It was in the "garage" of a bunk bed which had a rail on the side.

Kelly, when did you put Caitlyn into a big bed?

I was thinking about bunks actually.. I always used to bang my head on them too

Oooh that's good she stayed put until 2.5, that's my plan too.. end of the year hehe, not sooner, don't want a little visitor in the middle of the night

Ella will kick us and toss and turn, throwing arms and legs everywhere if she is in our bed.. and she won't sleep there either

Right. An update. After Annie's topic about Jacob not sleeping well, I've realised how much Hannah has been walking all over me. She had taken to coming in to my bed about 3.30am and being the lazy ass that I am, would just let her sleep in my bed. Was alright when it was just me, but when Zeke came over it was a little squished.

Anyway, so Operation Take the Power Back is in process. Changed tact on the 'Climbing out of bed' issue and have gone back to original super nanny plan of just putting her back in every time she climbs out. I started having doubts about my 'nice and caring' method of settling down with her because of the length of time it took to get her to go to sleep, especially when I was stressed as she could feel the tension. (Weirdo children.)

So yeah, I was much more determined to get the better of her this time and so stood outside her door (in front of the fire... mmmmm warm...) and as soon as I heard her climb out of bed I would storm in and put her back without lifting her into hug pose. (Does that make sense? Just lifting under the arms and not pulling her close to me) In the end (after coming out about 30 times) she packed a little tanty and went to sleep. It was so heartening to hear her whinge when I put her in bed. *muhahahaha* (I'm sounding a bit mean aren't i?!?)

Anyway, at 3.30am she made her usual journey to my room and I just picked her up and put her back in her bed and told her that she was going to sleep the rest of the night in her room. She came out again a few times and I just stood in the same place and put her back. Then she slept until 7.30am!!! YAY!

For her afternoon sleep she came out a few times but judging from the lack of noise on the baby monitor, it is safe to assume that she has gone to sleep!

I feel much more in control and almost can't wait for bedtime!!!

(Though I've just realised that I am going home in a few weeks. Damnit.)

Well done! You make her remember who wears the grown-up mummy pants in that house!!!

It's working very well except for when she comes out in the middle of the night... I'm pretty sure it is because she doesn't know what time it is when she wakes... so have to find a way of letting her know it is ok to get out. But at least it only takes a trip back to her room to shove her back in bed. (Except that this morning it was at 1.44am, 2.15am, 2.45am then at 7am)

Well, I'd like to go with that except that it's still dark at 7am and my chances of keeping her in bed longer than that are slim to none
Man, I wish I had one of those babies that slept in!!!!
(Mind you, I quite like that fact that she is in bed by 7.30pm)