i am going mad, its musical beds in my house.

[misdee]

once again i have had dd1+dd2 climbing into my bed in the middle of the night and waking me up. so i send them back to their beds. and then a few hours later tney do it again. but each time they do it they wake dd3 up who sleeps in my room.

i am utterly fed up and tired of it all. they sleep well in their own beds 99% of the time IF i tell them before bed each night to stay there.

I get everything from ' had a bad dream', 'i feel sick' 'i need a wee' to dd2 just screeching at me.

i have sent them back to bed this morning (dd1 is ill, sore throat and temp) as they are groucey and winding me up.

how can i get them to stay put each night and not keep waking me and dd3 up?

anyone?

I used to have this with DS it was every single night, thankfully he wasn't waking another child in the process but I just kept putting him back and in the end I just think he got fed up with being put back so stayed in his own.

His mattress was a bit hard so I bought one of them mattress quilts and now I think he finds it too cosy to leave.

Misdee, I had this with DDs a couple of years back. I always let them have a small piece of choc afte school/nursery and I just withdrew it and told them it was completely dependant upon them staying in their own beds. It took about a week till they saw I was serious and they're fine now.

Good luck - it's bloody exhausting, isn't it?

Return them to their own beds religiously. If you weaken once then you are setting yourself up for endless re-visits.

I have the same problem with my two. Last night I alternated between dd in with me and going to cuddle ds in his bed each time he woke up. I'm too weak to be hard and so just look haggard each day. This is not the answer. A fresh faced firm mother has got to be better than a haggard grouchy one.