
My son is about 19 months and we’ve had our ups and downs with sleeping like a majority (if not all) parents. When my wife went back to work around 12-13 months I spent nights with him and was terrified about getting him to bed by myself, especially since he was weaning off of breast feeding. Surprisingly, it took only 4 nights before I was able to lay him to bed.Fast forward to today, he has good nights and bad nights. A good night he is exhausted, we read a book, drink some milk, and he falls asleep on the couch with us and we lay him to bed. An okay night we may lay him to bed half asleep or full asleep, he wakes up, freaks out for 5 minutes then lays down.Now, he is full on throwing fits and can climb out of his crib. It’s lowered to the lowest setting and he can easily get out.A few things, his crib is in our bedroom. He still sleeps with us because we are in a two bedroom apartment and the other bedroom is my office, I work from home. We recently signed on a home but it won’t be built until June or July. I’m very fortunate that I will have a home for my family but in the meantime, I don’t know what to do.I hate when he sleeps with us in bed because 1. I don’t want him to get used to it and 2. He kicks me in the face and pinches us in his sleep and it generally means we don’t sleep well, although maybe a bit better than him waking up and throwing a fit to get into bed with us.He’ll be about 2 when he’ll get his own room but in the meantime... do I just let him sleep with us? Should I just make it easy on us and break the habit once we are moved into our new home and he is in a new environment? I feel like trying to break him of sleeping with us AND being in his own room will be challenging. I know there is no right or wrong, just looking for some advice. I’ve slept on the couch like over 10 days in December simply because I really don’t want him to ask to get into our bed. But obviously it’s not working... happy new year to all you parents out there! via /r/Parenting http://bit.ly/2VuWik7
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