Desperate- toddler coming in our bedroom and waking up baby

I’m absolutely exhausted as I write this and just need advice desperately! I have a 5 month old who sleeps in her crib in me and my husbands bedroom and in the last week or so my 3 year old has been coming into our room in the middle of the night, sometimes it’s 3am and other times 5am and she wakes up the baby. She doesn’t even get into our bed and fall asleep straight away as if she did that I wouldn’t mind. She’s wide awake and starts talking to me as I’m trying to feed the baby back to sleep. My husband obviously just carries on sleeping. What do I do?! Obviously I’ve tried explaining to her as best as I can if she can stay in her room until mummy or daddy get her in the morning and I’ve even bribed her saying she’ll get a treat if she listens but she keeps doing it. I’m so exhausted as when my baby falls asleep I’m then trying to get my toddler to sleep and when my toddler did eventually get to sleep around 6am my baby woke up. It’s driving me mad!

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