Toddler Suddenly wants Mom's bed

[bmw4388]

My son just turned 2 and for the last 2-3 months he has started waking up earlier and earlier.  It started at 5 am, so I put him in my bed so I could sleep for another hour.  Well, 5 am turned to 4 am turned to 3 am and now he wakes at 11 pm and wants my bed.  If I let him cry he cries so hard that he almost passes out.  I have tried sleeping on the floor in his room to get him our of my bed, but he screams until I lay him down next to me on the floor with me.  He is still in a crib and is a total "mama's boy" attached to me at all times.  He started with a daycare around the same time the problems started.  I am scared to do the "cold turkey" thing and just leave him in there to scream.  The pediatrician said that if he did cry and pass out, he would come right back and not to worry....yea right!  As if I could handle that.  Any ideas on stopping this behavior.

[*TLC*]

I could have wrote this same post months ago minus the daycare part.  DD does the same thing when she cries a couple of times she got so upset so quickly that she got sick       The only way I was able to break her was to sit in her room, night after night until she feel asleep and I would move myself further and further out of the room a little each night.  Starting closer to the door each night.  I did this when she would wake up at night as well (she didn't do it as much when going to bed but more during the night when she woke up).  The after I was out of the door after weeks of that I had to sit outside her door.  Everytime she got up and opened the door (she is in a toddler bed bc she started climbing out of the crib) I would bring her back to bed.  I did this over and over.  As time went on it lessened the amount of times she got out of bed and how long it took her to settle down and go back to sleep.

Maybe it is DS way of telling you he is ready for a bed.  I wasn't ready to move DD to a bed but she was climbing out and not sleeping well in it anymore anyway so it was better to bite the bullet and move her then when we weren't sleeping well as it was then trying to do it when she was sleeping good.  kwim?

I soooooo know where you are at and hope it is resolved soon for you.

 

[bmw4388]

I thought of getting him a real bed.  But I was afraid he would just crawl out of the bed and walk to my room.  I figured maybe it was better to keep him "contained" in a crib.  I have rocked him back to sleep, but as soon as I lay him down his eyes open.  I guess I will need to try a matress on the floor in his room and see if I can slowly get him to just sleep all night and then remove the matress.

[*TLC*]

To make sure she did not walk to my bedroom and also to make sure she did not fall down the stairs which are right near her room I but a baby gate at the door.   When I as at the stage where I was outside the door I kept the door open and sat outside the gate.