I need help. My DD1 is 3 years 7 months, DD2 is 11 months. DD1 is a lovely bright happy child, most of the time! she is very demanding when she wants something, mainly food, and not going to bed, she will rant and rave a winge and repeat herself for hours and hours at a time.
This is manageable during the day but she also does it at night, she has, since birth been a terrible sleeper and I have to admit to quite a bit of 'accidental parenting' ie: giving her milk on demand and letting her in our bed.
This has recently got terrible, bedtime is horrific, she shares with DD2 who is a fantastic sleeper, goes off at 6 and (mainly) stays asleep until morning. So the job of getting DD2 go off the sleep whilst not giving into DD1's very loud demands is such hard work. When I eventually get her off with much coaxing, she is always up again in a few hours, ending up in our bed and also waking up and demanding milk, food, not being tired etc and shouting the house down.
Basically I think my question is, how do I do sleep training when the baby shares a room and sleeps so well?
we only have two bedrooms, they are next to each other, she has a voice like a fog horn!
Thanks for reading.