Unable to sleep alone.

Anyone else have a kid who always comes to sleep in your bed with you if they wake in the middle of the night? She tells us that she’s scared, so we do everything we can think of to make her feel safe in her room, but she eventually admits that she just doesn’t want to be alone. (Which isn’t the truth really because she shares a room with her brother.) We’re not sure what else to do to get her to sleep in her own bed. We wouldn’t mind it so much if she did it once in a while, but started doing this a year ago. The last few months it’s been almost every night and my husband has trouble sleeping with her kicking and hitting us in her sleep and all that fun stuff.

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My son does not want to sleep alone either. He slept in his crib in his own room until 3.5 years. Then we got him a twin size bed. And he won’t sleep in it. He’s 4 now and sleeps in our bed. He’s an active sleeper and I can’t sleep in the same bed with him. That’s why my husband sleeps with him in our bed and I sleep in our son’s bed 🥲 I don’t know how long this situation will last but hopefully not too long.

My son started doing the same thing two months ago- doesn’t want to sleep alone. I put a crib sized mattress on the floor by our bed and in the night he will come and sleep on it. It’s a win win! He’s no longer scared AND he’s not in our bed!!

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