Daughter is almost three. She's always been sensitive with sleep and goes through rough phases, but generally it's OK. She sleeps in her own room in a floor bed. Over the last few months she has been waking frequently with nightmares, anytime between 2am and 5am, and has come into bed with me. Husband goes to sleep on the sofa or in her bed. Not great, but it was occasional and we all went back to sleep quickly.
I'm now 35 weeks pregnant and for the last fortnight, she's been waking like this every night. Not necessarily with nightmares, I think she just wakes up naturally and wants me. She will not tolerate my husband - this morning he picked her up and took her into her own bedroom (there's a stairgate separating her room from ours to avoid her falling down stairs) and she was absolutely hysterical. I eventually took pity on our neighbours and went and lay with her in her own room, but she didn't go back to sleep. So that's us up for the day!
Any advice? No idea where to start. Worst case option is that I start letting her back into my bed and have a toddler on one side of me and a newborn on the other. Husband would be guiltily but peacefully asleep elsewhere. I hate this idea but it seems like the only scenario in which everyone is getting some sleep.
There must be a solution before the baby arrives?! Even in the womb, my daughter's screaming gets the baby kicking furiously almost immediately, and I've now got visions of trying to settle a new baby and my furious toddler. Help!