Spirited 2.5 year old DD Won't Sleep

[WSMommy]

I finally made it out of her room and out of sight last night.  I suppose that's an accomplishment, even though it took me 3 weeks to get there!  She had 2 NW but I only had to go in and tuck her in and then leave.  I sat outside her room for 10 minutes and she was asleep quickly.  She then woke @ 5:30am but I treated it as a NW and she went back down.  I woke her @ 7.  This is a HUGE improvement from the night before when she was up for 2.5 hours in the middle of the night.  Thanks for all the support!  I will keep posting so please keep checking!  I'm sure I'm going to have more questions

[WSMommy]

Now doing wi/wo. I leave the room and sit and she gets out of bed quietly. She just sits on the floor and keeps scooting closer to me. When do I get up and walk her back in? Also, she's decided she likes to sleep completely under the covers including her head so this is the request I get everytime she wakes up "cover me up mommy". Do I cover her? We are going on 1month of sleep training now! Still having multiple nw although she goes to sleep faster with those (generally).

[*Becky*]

bumping up

[WSMommy]

Shameless bump

[louis-mummy]

Honestly i think you are doing great, it took me MONTHS (years?!) to get to this stage

I would be tempted now to move things along.  Something along the following lines.

Tell her that Mommy needs to leave the room while she sleeps as you have jobs etc to do and that if she comes out you will take her back to bed.  Of course you will have to be very consistent then in doing that so be sure in your own mind of what you are doing and why.  Make it sound positive - she needs to have a lovely long sleep in her cosy bed so that tomorrow she will be happy and can have a fun day because she won't be tired etc etc.  She probably won't be too happy about it and things might get tougher for a while but once she understands she will sleep much better.   

regarding the nw's, I highly recommend being out of sight while she goes to sleep if you can manage to. she's waking briefly during the night and instead of rolling over and going back to sleep she's checking to see where you've gone to.

some more ideas here
http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=60390.0

My LO can pull his own duvet up but probably couldn't get it over his head.  I wouldn't have a problem with him wanting to do that as long as he wasn't overheating but i'd have to question if he was using it as a reason why i had to get up to him.......i'd be tempted to use warmer nightclothes and just give her a sheet and show her how to get under it.  And explain that Mommy won't be getting up to do it for her !

hope something there helped