I'm unsure what to do about dd2s sleeping and was wondering if anyone has been in this situation. Briefly, she was a reasonable sleeper up until 18ms (now 3 and 3ms). Then all hell broke loose,much waking for months on end, much faffing in the night to the point were I got sick/run down the consequence being developing an unusual form of psoriasis that took 4ms to clear.
Anyway, we did get through this eventually. And since last Sept she's been much better. Sleeping from 7pm (without messing about) to about 5-5.30 am (very occasionaly 6/6.15) when she gets out of bed and comes into ours, and sometimes dozes but mostly wriggles about, as do I.Then we get up at about 6am 'cos I can't take anymore fidgeting/whinging for juice etc.
My question is, how do I get passed this. Do I send her back to bed, ignore her, put her back to bed etc? Knowing that all of these will provoke rage and upset. But part of me keeps thinking, as the dds share bunk beds, the ideal time to do this is the summer hols, dd1 is at school so needs a peaceful sleep in term time. I also feel dd2 is probably old enough to understand when I mean business.
The bottom line is I've had enough of waking so bloody early EVERYDAY (dh useless/she "won't" go to him in the mornings). But we've come SO far I don't want to bugger it up again. Help...???