Getting toddler to sleep in another room?
So with both my kids I bought a crib and ended up co-sleeping. My first slept in my bed until age 9. Now my 2.5 year old sleeps in my bed and I would like to make a room for him so he can have a place of his own and a place for his things. I also don’t want him in my bed as long as my first because that’s 2 decades of co-sleeping. I find that most of his night wakings are from us moving around or getting up, dad has restless leg, I am relegated to the edge of the bed and still have to feed several times a night. I notice now sometimes he is going back down without the feeding and just a little rub on the back.
Has anyone transitioned a kid out of the bed at this age and how should I approach it? I think I should get rid of the crib since he can climb out of it, and it feels too late to change the way he falls asleep. I have a twin mattress and I could make a floor bed in his new room so we can lay down with him to sleep. I am afraid if we don’t change something he will just end up in our bed for years. My daughter omg would just cry tears if we brought up sleeping in her own bed and we didn’t have the heart. Should I try to do this now while he is still sort of a baby?