2 1/2 yrs old and wont sleep through the night

[Kristy Anderson]

I have a 2 1/2 year old who is waking every 2 hrs during the night and i can't figure out why. She has all her teeth and is not sick, she used to sleep for 12 hrs and not wake once now all of a sudden she's being difficult and is also taking about an hour to go to sleep of a night time sometimes more!!
Has anybody else had this problem and if so what did you do???
:hissy:

[nsmonkey]

Sorry but I am no help. :(
My DS2 is 2yrs and 3mths and well he doesn't sleep through the night either, he wakes wanting his sippy cup of milk. Today he has fallen asleep for his day nap with no milk so hopefully thats a start. I am trying to make the milk disappear as I am wanting to try night toilet training.
Is your DD waking up wet? Has she got enough or too much blankets?

[Kristy Anderson]

She isn't waking up wet thats one thing she's good at, she's been toilet trained for around 6 weeks now and not one accedent. I've also tried taking blankets off and putting them on but it doesn't seem to help any, she's been sleeping badly since mid January. At first i did think it was the hot weather but now it's cooled down and still wakes up, she does have a lil drink of water when she wakes but i'm pretty positive she'a not waking because she's thirsty. I know kids go through bad sleeping stages but this is lasting bit longer than all the others.
Getting very very tired

[mummaperry]

hey guys
i am having the same trouble with my 2 1/2 yr old. she sometimes will go to sleep in her bed but everynight for the past month ends up in our bed!
i try to prevent it but she always manages to sneak in & if i try to put her back in her bed she startes screaming & wakes up her 1 yr old brother.
i am really at my wits end with it cos i am due to have another baby in 2 months & really need her to sleep through in her own bed.

she is in a single bed now but she is such a restless sleeper she finds it better to have a bigger bed, i am even considering getting her a bigger bed & see if that helps.
last night she would not go to sleep unless she was in my bed, it was nearly 10pm before she settled & was still up at 5!

[nsmonkey]

Well last night was another night mare. DS2 woke up at 1am and was still awake at 2.40, he wanted me to sleep with him which I did but once I thought he was asleep I would go back to my bed and shortly after DS2 walked in. I done this like 4 times. I really need to work on getting rid of his soft spouted sippy cup to so he doesn't wake for milk anymore.

[Zada]

ohh my son is the same its driving me nuts! He used to sleep 7:30pm-7:30am (this was about 3 weeks ago) and now the past 3 weeks hes been waking about 10-15 times a night. He just wanders in my room so I put him bac in his bed and he asks for more milk etc. So draining.

[nsmonkey]

Zada I think we end up going through like 3 or 4 cups of milk during the night. And 2 nappies at the moment.
For me to night toilet train I need to get rid of the milk during the night.

[Zada]

yep same here. But yet its how he goes to sleep at the start of the night easily so tough choice! hopefully he stops soon I need :sleeping:

[Kristy Anderson]

I think i may have the answer to the question but not the solution. My daughter has a very very big imagination and gets excited quiet easily so i think thats why she is waking so many times during the night. She is either having dreams and thinking they are real or was just very excited playing with friends during they day that she wants to keep going. Very often she will wake up and say something, like they other night "there was a snake under her bed" so she had to get out and have a look and this morning she got up thinking her cousins where at our house so she ran around looking for them.
I think i just have to wait it out and hope that as she grows she will learn to calm down and "switch her brain off" when she goes to sleep.
Is anybody elses kids like this?

[Alex06]

Must be a 2 1/2 year old thing ! My son has been in his own bed since about 2 years old, and was fine with that straight away, but suddenly the last 2 months, he only wants to sleep with me and hubby in our bed, even though its more squashy(for me, since Im 5mths preg). My boy wakes up at 9am every morning, has a 2 hr nap at about 2-4pm, then I put him down at aboout 9pm .... but doesnt go to bed til about 10.30-11pm .... really annoying ... is he too young to cut out the midday nap ? Ive done it before, if we have appointments on, and he falls asleep at 9am without a fuss .... but his up for 12 hrs straight ? Any advice please would be great .... what is your routine ? :confused:

[Kristy Anderson]

Sounds exactly the same as my daughter except she doesn't want to sleep with us, i've been firm with that since the day she was born. She has only slept in the bed with me once and that was when she was very sick.

Her routine is identicle to your sons, i have actually been wondering the same thing about cutting out her arvo nap but i think if she still goes down easily and sleeps fo 2 hrs she must need it. I've been putting up with the late nights too just so i can wake up later in the day, i'm not a 7am mum at all...........
I'm hoping when daylight savings finishes that will push her bed time forward to 8:30 or 8pm and then she can get up at 8:30am.

She was also having trouble getting to sleep at night but this past week she has gone straight to sleep, i don'y know if it was just a thing she was going through but i was also very strict with her that it is bed time now and time to sleep then i'd say good night and not go back in. I only did that for a few days and she seemed to get the hang of it pretty quick.

Glad to see someone else lets there kid stay up past 7pm i haven't come across it much.:goodvibes:

[mummaperry]

kristy my daughter is exactly the same! she comes out telling me that there are ghosts or monsters in her room. but even after we go in & show her that all is ok she will sleep for like 15minutes & then try & crawl into our bed.
sometimes i don't care cos being nearly 8 months pregnant & having a 1 yr old too i am just way too tired to bother & when my hubby gets home from work he puts her back in her bed.
but sometimes she has no interest in going back to sleep whether in my bed or not. she just wants to play.
i'm going nutty cos she couldn't have had enough sleep by that stage!!

i don't give her milk anymore, only 1 bottle before she goes to bed. if she wants a sip of water in the middle of the night then that if fine but i just had to keep persisting & saying no to nightime bottles. plus it helped with the nappies & she doesn't need a change until the morning.

i'm thinking about writing to supernanny from all of us & see if she can fix this problem! lol

[2made3]

My son used to be similar UNTIL he finally dropped his day time nap. :yes:

Now he goes to bed at 7pm and wakes at 7am. :D

I used to be putting him back to bed at night until about 10pm and he would also wake throughout the night like at about 2am then be up at 6am! :no: It was HELL :crying:.

Now that I have finally accepted he doesn't NEED his day nap (a hard thing to give up mummy time :() we are all a happy house again..

Maybe you could try not letting your DD sleep for too long during the day so she is tired enough at night?? My DS used to have 2.5 hr day sleeps then suddenly nothing! But when he does sleep at child care through the day, my nightime is a nightmare!!!

Good luck - I hope its getting better :fingerscrossed:

[Kristy Anderson]

I have just cut out her arvo sleep 2 days ago and now she is sleeping through the night, going to bed easily and sleeping for
13 hours !!!! :yelclap:
i think she may need a sleep every 3rd or 4th day but she has handled not having her arvo sleep very well and we are both happier. Maybe you should try it and see how he goes you might be surprised like i was, i thought that 2 1/2 was to young to cut out all sleeps too but it has worked a treat for me.
Plus kids these days seem to grow up a lot quicker too so maybe they are ready and we're just not. i didn't want to give up my mum time but it really doesn't make a difference if you've had a good night sleep.:sleeping:

[Amelia06]

hey ladies,

i was just about to make a post but now i no im not the only one.

my DS is 19 months and wakes up EVERYNIGHT between 1.30-2.30am and comes to my bed. i put him back in his single bed and it can take up to 2 hours for him to sleep again but then wakes again after an hour, im too tired that i just let him sleep with me.

He has been doing this since i put him in his big bed as i needed the cot for my 3rd baby whom is now 7 weeks old. so i no its not jealousy

but i have been told from a cousin, that i should get him checked by a Ear, Nose and Throat specialist to make sure its not an allergy problem or some kind of insomnia so im getting a referral hopefully tomorrow.

My DS sleeps from 11am - 1pm during the day and then i put him to bed at 8pm and then wakes from 1.30-2.30am and he is up and down all the time. I have realised that he isnt a happy boy during the at all and he also falls over his own feet, so im hoping this specialist will help??

Has anyone seen a Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist about this issue before????

[DishE]

Hey Amelia how did you go with the ENT specialist? I have been having problems with my 21month old since he had tonsilitis about 4 weeks ago. Before then he would go to bed at 8pm every night, and wake between 6-7 in the morning. Now I can't get him to bed any more, he only wants to sleep in my bed - which I don't usually let him do, and then when he does go to sleep (around 11pm most nights) I put him back in bed, but he ends up in with us again at 2am! It's driving me mad. I'm taking him to the Dr tomorrow for a check up to see if there is anything physically wrong I'm missing. Any other suggestions appreciated!

[lizzymcfizzy]

wow, I was about to make a post about a simliar problem! My DD is almost 2 and has been waking at dead on 4am and not going back to sleep unless she's in our bed. Then she either has to be right in my face with her cheek touching mine or she doesn't want to be under the covers and sleeps down the end of the bed with her feet near my knees and her head at my feet! its funny but not when your tired!

I've tried getting her back to sleep at 4am in her own room but she just cries. I thought I was just being too soft.

She only sleeps for an hour during the day and goes to bed at 7.30am. She gets up between 6 and 7.

I hope this passes! We can't have her in our bed every morning!!

[lil miss]

my dd is 20 months, and for the most part she is a great sleeper, but every now and then (usually aboutonce a month), she will go thru a really bad patch, and refuses to go to sleep. then once she actually does go to sleep, she will wake every hour or so... this goes on for a week or 2 then she's back to normal :confused:

Another issue we have atm is the bloody bottle! She refuses it at daycare, but at home she will not go to sleep without it. I have started only putting about 50mL milk in and the rest water. Its gotten to a stage where if she's not asleep when she finishes the 1st bottle, she has to have another and so on. Some nights she will have up to 4 bottles, and wake up in the morning saturated! Im trying to wean her off it (hence the mixing water and milk), but its one step forward, two steps back...

[lizzymcfizzy]

in reference to those of you stuck with the bottles, we tried giving our DD a sippy cup of warmed milk before bed while we read books and wind down.

We were breastfeeding but she had the bottle occassionally. It worked well for us in weaning her off both.

she still has her milk as part of her routine.

[nsmonkey]

My 2.5yr old has gone from waking 3-4times a night to not waking at all unless he needs to go to the toilet.
If he falls asleep during the day he is allowed to sleep no longer then 1hr. He doesn't have his soft spouted sippy cup durring the night and day now.
We have a set routine. And he sleeps in his bed 10-12hrs a night. Oh and I have also got him night toilet trained all in the last week. :)

[Hope09]

I have a 2 1/2 year old who is waking every 2 hrs during the night and i can't figure out why. She has all her teeth and is not sick, she used to sleep for 12 hrs and not wake once now all of a sudden she's being difficult and is also taking about an hour to go to sleep of a night time sometimes more!!
Has anybody else had this problem and if so what did you do???
:hissy:

Hi :wave:

I am just wondering if the colder weather is having an affect on your child's sleeping habit's. I have just recently felt a shift in the weather, so I am wondering if your little one is waking up due to being cold.

I have my DD in flannelet longs and she sleeps from 6pm-6.30am every night. I am not sure if that helps, hope it does. :smiliedance:

Goodluck Hope :cloud9:

[nsmonkey]

I too have been putting my two boys in long sleeved shirts a flannelette pants, because I have found its been abit cooler.