Co- sleeping 3yr old!

[macdoodle]

I am slowly dieing from sleep deprivation.
I am a single parent to a 9yr old a 3yr old, both girls.
Sometime in the last year my DD2 has migrated to my bed.
Now she won't sleep in her bed at all, she goes to bed in my bed, story and sleep. She is a very restless sleeper, and wakes at least 2-3 times a night (dummy, dreams, wee,drink), apart from the times she kicks me in the back, elbows me in the face etc.

I am losing the will to live :(
I just don't have the courage to address it. She is very strong willed, very vocal and has an excellent vocab. On the odd occasion I have tried to keep her in her own room, she screams and shouts "mummy mummy help", " oh no I've broken my arm/leg etc", "what shall I do". All very loudly, I live in a terraced house!

Even if I force her to go to sleep in her own bed. She wakes up and crawls in with me, sometimes I don't notice, so the cycle is broken.

What do I do, how do I address this, how long will it take. DD1 gets very upset when I force DD2 to stay in her own room.

she sounds like my 3 year old DD! We have to sort it out as new baby arrives in 3 months! watching with interest.

I posted in AIBU as well some more responses on there no not sure how helpful!

I have exactly the same problem, me & my husband share are bed with our 3 year old too. She will quite happily go into her bedroom and sit in bed and watch a dvd but she won't sleep in her own bed unless one of us are with her. If she does nod off she will wake up early hours and toddle into our room upset. We take full responsibility for this we made a rod for our own backs by letting it happen. At first i liked her being with us i knew she was constantly safe but now shes growing and our bed isn't getting any bigger. To make matters worse i now have a 11 week old baby who shares our room and she doesn't want to be left out. But i won't make the same mistake twice! I am in the process of ensuring that she gets into her bed every night even if it takes me till midnight putting a favourite teddy to bed with her helps, think the only way is to be firm so she knows she has to sleep in her own bed it won't happen overnight but if i don't do it now she'll be in our bed until shes ten . Good luck to you