A week ago last Friday, we moved Coby into the bedroom with Ben and Aaron as he just wasn’t sleeping properly in with us. In fact, he had been an absolute nightmare for about 2 weeks to the point he was waking up every hour! So we thought we would just try something different, so Kelly made some space in the other bedroom and put his mattress down on the floor in the corner, surrounded by cushions and pillows.
The first night he wasn’t too bad and didn’t get out of bed and walk into our room once, which is what we thought that he would do. The only time he got out of bed was when he woke up properly at 7:15 and I heard him out in the hallway. So he did very well really for his first night.
Unfortunately, the second night was fairly bad again and he did walk out of bed a couple of times and since then it has been a bit up and down. Some nights he isn’t too bad at all, but other nights he is bad again. Overall though, I think there has been a slight improvement and I have definitely felt slightly less tired.
At the end of last week, Kelly put his proper cot bed in the room, so he is now fully moved in with the other two! 😉 The cot bed is slightly off of the floor, so we have had to put an old mattress down next to him in case he rolls out, but Kelly has also rolled a blanket up along the edge to give his bed a bit of a rim. We did this for Ben and Aaron when they were Coby’s age and it seemed to work for them! So far I have only seen him out of bed once during the night, fast asleep on the mattress next to the bed, so I presume he must have just rolled out and stayed asleep!
Once he gets properly used to the cot bed in the other room, hopefully he will start to settle properly at night time and sleep better. Â There is also the matter of his back teeth all trying to push through as well at the moment which can’t be comfortable for him. So we will see how this goes over the next few weeks!
Here are a couple of pics of his bed in the other room.
