i hope you dont have children, and the maid is supposed to breastfeed the baby??? Ama ulinyonya matiti za mboch wenyu???

Growing up, my dad used to work away from home, being the last born i had the opportunity to enjoy sleeping with my mum, you can imagine what would happen, when this stranger showed up every three months and i was kicked out of that bed.
I was never happy whenever my dad was around when it came to bedtime....

Now i grew up somewhere where horror stories about witches and wizards and night runners were common, this is the reason i never wanted to sleep in my room. My reason for not wanting to sleep in my bed was i was scared. Find out why your daughter does not want to sleep in her bed, is she scared of something or she is just attached to that bed, maybe she feels more secure there...

What Muheani said is what my mum devised, she would trick me, let me doze off in her bed and ship me to my bed later on, a couple of times i would wake up and scream in the middle of the night on discovering i was sleeping alone, my mum would come tell me it was okay, there was no one to harm me, at times she would get into my bed only to leave once i dozed off again, eventually i woke up in the morning in my room alone so many times and realized there were other things to worry about than the witches....

all the best, breaks my heart nikiskia mtoto analia, hata wa neighbor, i could call cradle on you...

Mimi pia iko ndani ya hii sida. naomba sirkal aingie kati. conjugals have to wait till he is deep asleep lakini si hoja. kungoja nayo! !

interesting idea! when I was younger I used to diss those "sissy" parents in Nanny 911, i used to think - what is wrong with these people? Kumbe the proof of the pudding is in the eating... its heart breaking, hard and plus it takes place during ungodly hours of the night when there is almost no will to fight with a screaming 2 year old.

After The Period Of Him Dozzing Off In My Bed, Shipped To His, Wakes up Yelling in His Bed, Is Picked, Dozzes Off, Back To His Bed... That Was Very Trying (I Think Sometime I Used To Walk Around Eyes Closed Asleep)

The Next phase Was Him Waking Up Around 3.30am N shouting At The Top Of His Voice...dadiiiiii.... Off I Go N The Guy Says..nifunike..

I Then Noticed our Jogoo wud wika Just Before He Called Out...We Ate Him.

Thayu (Peace) Nayo After The Jogoo Was No More!

Moral Of The Story...no Noise When Baby Starts To Get The Hung Of It

...ili iwe funzo kwa jogoo wengine..

Our kids never sleep in our bed at all. Right from birth, they sleep in their own cot. When they wake up in the middle of the night, I get up [wife is usually too fatigued, especially in first few months after birth], pick the kid and hand over to wife for breastfeeding...or simply rock back to sleep.

Time to move out of our room comes when the kid settles into an all-night sleep routine. We've never had a problem with that. We are now on number 3 and he will be heading out of out bedroom in a few months time. I don't expect any problems.

@Rahatupu,

Children best respond to routine and the earlier you have this in place the better for you.My deelets have always slept with the same routine of
bath - milk - stories - bed routine and i may be lucky as this has worked, they both moved to their rooms at 9 months sleeping in their own cots.

However your case is fairly common and what works varies from child to child. However back to the routine what a child needs is consistency, whenever he cries at your door wake up no speaking, no eye contact and return him to his bed, you might do this for a few hours in the first night and its very physically exhausting (heck no-one says this journey will be easy)but a helluva lot more worthwhile,soon he will get the message and by day 3 this will be a thing of the past. Remember the key is consistency children dont cope well with disruptions. All the best.