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It might be a "this is the rule, I'm sorry you are sad. We love you and we will see you in the morning" kind of situation. There may be tears but she's old enough at 3 to understand.

This is us right now. LO 1 was fine in his own room till LO 2 was born, then LO 1 wanted to hang out with us and sleep with us, we probably should have nipped it in the bud then.

Now that LO 2 is sleeping on his own... LO 1 still sleeps with us most nights. Personally we don't mind. We actually think he will probably grow out of it or hopefully sleeps with us less nights a week till none eventually.

@LuLu Mom: stack two? DS1 climbed it once, got my angry face, and hadn't tried again. I think you could take the second down after a week of no trouble at bed.

I agree with Mrs Lion. This is the rule, it's bedtime. She needs to sleep in her bed. Keep bringing her back.

We are also going through this with our 2.5 year old. Started out as just her coming in our bed early morning, then it was halfway through the night, then she had one cold, then we were traveling (she usually sleeps with us away from home), then another cold... weeks and weeks went by and she was in our bed almost the whole night. It was ridiculous! She never really has trouble going to sleep in her own bed initially, but she will get up and freak out if she can't climb in with us. So we agreed that DH brings her back whenever she gets up (which is down to once a night after two weeks now). She cries like crazy, but usually falls back asleep in her own bed within 10 minutes. We are all sleeping much better although I would still call it a work in progress. I am too much of a softy to bring her back in myself - she knows I will probably crawl in bed with her, or bring her back into our room if she cries long enough. DH is tougher and is more unsettled when she sleeps with us, so it has become his job to put her in bed . Good luck! You probably just need to bit the bullet and break the habit.

Maybe lie with her until she falls asleep and then progressively move closer and closer to door, until she is ok to go to sleep without you there??