I can't be the only one who's had to face this situation, so I hope others have some advice?My wife and I cosleep with our 1.5yo son in our king-size bed. I usually rock him to sleep, but to stay asleep, he has to crawl up onto mom's chest a few times a night. He's never breast-fed, and takes a bottle at night before bed, so it's not about the milk. Also needs a pacifier to get to sleep, and will wake up and cry if he "loses" it in the bed. He'll cuddle with me for warmth, but not for comfort, and if mom gets up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night and he wakes up to see she's not there, no amount of rocking or humming to him will calm him down. Mom's going off to a big conference on the other coast for 5 days and I'm afraid son's not going to be able to stay asleep if he needs her. Do toddlers adjust to a parent no longer being around for comfort? Should I use this as an opportunity to wean him from needing her for sleeptime comfort? I also wonder how long it might take to transition a toddler from "need parent to rock/bounce to sleep" to falling asleep on his own, but next to a parent in the bed? I know some of this might be painful, take a lot of patience, and threaten my sanity, but I'm taking the time off work for this. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2Qjzxj7
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