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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He’s definitely overtired. I think you need to figure out how to get him to not go into your room — he needs to learn how to stay in his room and get a good night’s sleep.

I’d suggest talking to your pediatrician about strategies for doing that. This whole pattern of him running into your room isn’t helping him get good sleep. [/quote]

Op here. I agree. It’s become a pattern and it’s hurting his sleep. I also think he sleeps worse in our room. It’s too stimulating for him and so often when I see him overnight he’s awake (in the early morning I mean).

Would it be a mistake to put a mattress on the floor in his room and DH or I sleep in there?

He’s so sensitive and anxious that I’m afraid to force him to sleep in his room. He goes to sleep without much fuss in his room but always wakes up multiple times per night and claims to be “scared”.[/quote]

Honestly, I think your ultimate goal needs to be to have him sleep the entire night on his own in his room. I know that sounds really daunting and impossible, but that’s the only way he’ll get good sleep.

Hopefully your pediatrician will have guidance on how to get there. If you feel that he has undue anxiety about sleeping in his own room, that’s when I might look into a specialist, to see if he has unusual levels of anxiety that need to be addressed.

But your first stop is his pediatrician, IMO.[/quote]

Op here. I agree that the goal is whole night in his bed, just thinking in the interim if one of us is there that could help. But of course then we might just create another crutch.

Thankfully I think this would be an easy telehealth appointment with his doc, so I’ll schedule that tomorrow.[/quote]

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