I am an attached mother to my babygirl born in 03. I have a problem though. She hates to sleep. I lay down with her in our family bed at night, she often lays there for two hours, refuses to go to sleep. I pretend to be sleeping, but it seems like she forces herself to be awake. Then again, she finally falls asleep, but she wakes up during the evening, after a few hours. She won't go to sleep again, and I always end up with bringing her in to the livingroom with me, because I don't want to spend my entire evening in the bedroom. As a result of this she get's really tired the next day, not happy at all. Why does she hate it so much? I would think that I have created a natural environment for her and that she should love the comfort I provide? She seems scared to sleep, she wants to be awake and with us. Help, please! By the way, I'm norwegian, hope my bad english doesn't scar you away! :)

Are family beds common in Norway? I have 3 children, all of whom have had problems sleeping until I finally got tough. My first one was the hardest. It gets easier as you have more children. Of course, if you are breastfeeding, it is much easier to have a family bed, that way you can just roll over and feed your little one. I don't know if you are still breastfeeding (or maybe your baby was bottle fed). My oldest child would not go to sleep on her own. As she got older, I was more concerned about it. Really young, it is easy to just grab them and hold them until they fall asleep. But, the older ones, this does not work. So, I finally had to lay down the law and put her in her crib in her room and close the door. She would cry for hours. But, if you go in there and take her back to your room, you have just taught her that if she cries long enough, mommy will come back and rescue her. So, literally, I had to let her go all night. It is one of the hardest things moms have to do. But, it had to be done. Now, she sleeps very well on her own. My other children had similar issues, but I knew that I had to be stronger when they were little so that they would learn to sleep on their own. So, they were not as hard to get to sleep.