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Thank you for your replies. Just an update-we put her in a bed in another room. It went OK. She has a cold now, so it was bad timing, but we will get through it. :)

I would try the mattress on the floor idea. My kids slept in the crib beside the bed for the first year, then moved into another room. Well, the first one did, the second is moving in a couple of days . . . our deal is that once they start disrupting sleep because they are in the same room, it`s time to move them.

We tried the co-sleeping thing and found it much more adventagous in the long run to have the child form the ability to sleep alone. While certainly easier in the early days, it proved to cause problems such as you are having now.
I also quit breast feeding right after a year, think children need to learn to entertain themselves for short periods at an early age, and use spanking as discipline for serious offenses. So you may not want to listen to me as it seems to be the "new thing" that I'm doing it all wrong and that it should really be the child that is in control of the house, not the parents. **grin**
Afterall, what do I know - we have three healthy, gifted, Christ centered children and WHO wants that?

I'm so sorry to hear that you're having a hard time. I don't have first hand advice on how to start sleeping separately (we still co-sleep). I have heard that letting them sleep on a mattress next to your bed can help them. I don't know if you are breastfeeding, but when my daughter wakes up sad or grumpy in the morning, that always helps her...sometimes she falls back asleep and sometimes she doesn't, but she's usually happier. You might also consider that something new is happening with her. Last month my daughter got a new tooth and was really clingy for about a week. This month she's getting another couple and I'm recognizing the signs early on...Hang in there!