Nights of Restful Slumber in My Future?

My daughter now almost 3 was nursed / co-slept until she was 2 and only this month has started sleeping through the night by herself.

It was a tough journey (she threw herself out if her crib at 18 mos. when I tried CIO) but in increments we made it...

First was stopping the night nursing then any milk, switched to water in a sippy. Then I stayed with her in her room next to her bed on a sofa. This step lasted a long time, gradually reducing the time I was holding her hand, but eventually she was able to sleep in her bed with me on the sofa, not touching her, just there.

Now she goes quietly to sleep on her own (very recent development) and I get to sleep with my snoring husband ;)

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Good luck!

So sweet that she wants to hold your hand but it can be frustrating too. Poor thing she so used to being with her Momma that she is probably having seperation anxiety.
Try putting her in her own bed and sit with her while she falls asleep, and then when she does take your hand back and replace it with a teddy bear or something then slowly try to leave the room. Try this for a few nights to get her used to being her own bed.

Also the "No cry sleep solution" is a great book, it has helped us out alot and I would definatly recomend it. I got mine off of Amazon.com and only paid $5 so its cheap too.
Good luck!

Sounds very, very familiar (been there done that)! :)

We began transitioning our daughter into her own bed for naps. I had to lay down with her until she fell asleep or she would get up and out of the bed. Sometimes this took a few minutes, sometimes longer. She was still in our bed at night at this point. Then we moved on to her starting off in her own bed at night time. Again, we had to lay down with her until she fell asleep. She'd wake up around 1 a.m. or so and for expediency sake (and sleep, once I'm "up" I'm up) my husband would go get her out of her bed and bring her into our bed. Around her third birthday, one morning she woke up and said, "Where's daddy?" I laughed and tickled her and said, "He's sleeping in YOUR bed because there is no more room in OUR bed for him anymore!" She laughed, looked sheepish and we had the "time to sleep the whole night in your own bed" talk.

Since she was 3 years old at the time, she totally understood and she's been in her own bed ever since. At first my husband would have to go in and tell her to go back to sleep if she woke up, then she just started sleeping through the night altogether.

Good luck!

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I went through something similar with my daughter, and what worked was to begin having her nap in her bed, and I would stay with her while she fell asleep. Eventually, we did the same thing at bedtime, and to transition out of my sleeping with her, I would assure her that I would be in to check on her in a couple of minutes. During these visits I'd lightly rub her back, and let her know when I'd return. Slowly, the back rubs lightened up, and the length of time between visits grew, and eventually she was able to let go of the anxiety of being in her bed by herself.

Good luck!