Anyone have advice on how to stop co-cleeping for a two year old?

I was always against co-sleeping, but we messed up and started a bad habit. On one hand i do love the closeness of it, but it's time i get my bed back! DS is getting big and hogging the bed, i need to get some sleep! So any advice? I know its not going to be easy.

Re: Anyone have advice on how to stop co-cleeping for a two year old?

haha I dont know cause AJ will still come sleep with us.

My coworker says I should just walk her back to her bed and that she'll get over it. Too bad I'm too tired and lazy to do that!

Actually AJ slept with us always then we got to having her crash in the living room then putting her in her crib. She'd sleep there all night.

Unfortuantely with my aunt caring for her she sleeps on a air bed with her every night. Then on the weekends we put her into a toddler bed at home. She'll fall asleep in the living room or ask us to go to her room and we'll lay on the floor next to her toddler bed until she's asleep then leave. We leave the door cracked. I'm paranoid. So she gets up and comes over to our room if she wakes up.

If she's tuckered out though NOTHING gets her to move including the fact that she nearly ALWAYS rolls off her bed and ends up on the floor.

So I'm in a compromise stage. I get my bed back for most of the night. I spend the last half being jarred awake with a heel to the rib cage or eye socket!

I figure she's got another year on me before I seriously toss her out!

Message edited 7/26/2010 12:38:23 PM.