When your little one was younger, you thought it’d be fine to have her in the same room, since it’s so much more convenient to have her next to you.

Three years on, you rarely get a good night’s rest, much less a roll in the sack, with the little monster wedged firmly between you and your husband. Any attempts to move her are promptly met with queen-sized fits.

Daniel advises parents to train their children to sleep on their own from a young age, to avoid the hassle of having to re-train them later. “Besides losing the spontaneity for sex, a bedroom scattered with children’s toys is hardly conducive to lovemaking,” he adds.

However, if you’ve already allowed your little ones to invade your bed, Dr Lee suggests having an additional mattress or two in your bedroom for them and then gradually moving the mattress away from your matrimonial bed every night until they are settled in their own rooms.

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