What is everyone’s opinion on co sleeping at 3.5 years of age?
A bit of back story my step daughter co sleeps with her mother to the point they hold hands my husband and I have tried overnight visitation however the minute you let go of her hand she wakes up screaming and won’t re settle this makes the weekend very difficult as nobody is getting a good night sleep because I’m stuck in her single bed while they have our main bed so they can co sleep but my husband can’t sleep because he can’t move without letting go of her hand.
For now we have stopped overnight visits because of this and have asked if they can start working on stopping co sleeping however the mother just abuses us and is refusing to stop co sleeping because she likes it. So what are your opinions on this and do you have any suggestions for us. We are going to court however she is holding up the system we scheduled mediation but she canceled 4 times so far since December we cannot go to court without mediation and mediation is saying we just have to reschedule until it is a suitable day for her. Please help I don’t know what to do anymore we would love to have the little angel overnight
Thank you
Opinion on co sleeping
Opinion on co sleeping
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I was against co-sleeping, until my second child came along. He was a terrible sleeper, so I stuck him in bed with hubby and I so I worried less, and wasn't up the ENTIRE night. Ex hubby and I broke up 5 years ago, Mr 8 still prefers to sleep with me. He will sleep on his own, but wakes up super early, so is best for everyone if he sleeps in my bed. I wish he wouldn't though. I need some space, plus he's awful to sleep next to 😜. I also worry that I'm spoiling him, but have you ever seen a 15 year old still sleep with their mummy? I'm sure he'll grow out of it, right now this is what he needs to feel safe.
At 3.5 I wouldn't be too worried about it. Yes it's annoying, mum probably doesn't want her in her bed every night either! I think you're just going to have to ride it out x
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Get a lawyer and ask for a a family psychologist, the child is three .
Here it doesn’t say anything about if there are any trauma concerns so I can’t make opinions about that . However it should be ok for the little child to learn to start sleeping normally. Does she sleep at kindy, it may be a couple of really difficult weekends but she will get used to what happened at dads house, I also have the same situation as you , my step daughter was 2 and half and co sleep and we put her Gradualy moved her into her own bed, and it was fine, we did the 5Min rule self soothing. After the couple of time . But sounds like it really could use a court ordered physcologist to help.
The Mum is just putting off mediation for her own benefit.
Also if you get a lawyer and advise the courts that she is doing this it will be in ur favour.