OK I Can't Take Anymore - Please Help!

[mummy2aaron]

DS2 has autism and is up for the day anytime from 4.30am. I have learnt to live with this - I go to bed early and we manage. This is not the problem. The problem is DD. She is 19 months - still in her cot and Grobag and regularly waking at around 1am - she cries until I give in and take her into my bed. I can't leave her to cry or it will wake DS2 and he will be up for the day. I need her to learn to sleep by herself all night - she used to be excellent but she is very insecure atm. DS2 is very bad with her - pushing, snatching, hitting. He also had a spate of jumping in her cot when he wakes in the early hours and I think she may be scared. Anyone with any advice please help.

Thanks.

[oooggs]

stair gate on her bedroom door so he can't get in?

[WriggleJiggle]

Any chance you can separate them for 4/5 days till you get dd's sleep sorted out - would ds go for sleep overs somewhere? Could dd go to g'parents for a couple of nights if they're close by? Perhaps you and dd could share a room, and ds and d/p(?) could share a room so they are separated, yet close by?

Sorry, can't think of any solutions but to try and get them apart so you can deal with dd's sleep.

[mummy2aaron]

hmm could sleep in her room and sort her out that way while ds2 sleeps with dh. worth considering, thanks for that.