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3.5 year old DD coming in our room at all hours of the night
Hi ladies. I lurk here from time to time, but I'm more active on other boards. I really need help with my DD, so I gotta come here and ask.
DD (she's 3.5) has been day potty trained for basically a year. She's had some set backs here and there so getting to night training took some time. We finally gave it a go in January, and she's been doing great! She wakes up to tell us she needs to go, and even though she knows how to take care of things herself, she wants us to help her. We do, and she would go straight back to bed. Lately when she gets up to go, she goes back to bed and then keeps getting up and coming into our room over and over and over. She's never upset or needs anything. It's like she just wants to chat. When she did this around 6:00 or so, I'd tell her to wait until my alarm went off (7:30) to come in and then I would make her a special breakfast. She has toys in her room, so she would either go back to sleep or occupy herself with toys. The promise of a special breakfast usually worked. But now, she is doing this at all hours of the night. Sometimes it's after using the bathroom, and sometimes she is just waking up to come in to tell us something.
I feel like I'm going nuts with no sleep (because I'm pregnant and up a lot myself to use the bathroom), and I really wanna nip this in the bud before baby gets here. Any suggestions? I'm all about rewarding her for stopping this because the positive reinforcement works really well with her. I guess I'm so tired that I'm at a loss for how to reward her, haha. 
Sorry this got long. Thank you!
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Re: 3.5 year old DD coming in our room at all hours of the night
I have/had this issue with my 2.5yr old. We have patches of him doing this and since I am the only parent at the moment its a little harder.
Everytime I put him right back into bed. Sometimes it only takes once, sometimes it takes an hour. You just have to be consistent.
DS is doing this too and it scares the crap out of me in the middle of the night!
DS is not night potty trained, and isnt wanting to go, he is just getting up, being curious.
We are bribing. He is allowed to watch one show a day, in the morning, but he loses it if he comes down in the night. I feel horrible telling him he cant come into my room, BUT he is a bear if he doesnt get good sleep. If he is scared, has a bad dream, etc we dont take the show away, but usually this bribe works.
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We also have this issue in spurts. It has helped to get a clock that turns green when he can get up and come into our room.
Other than that when he gets up, we ask him why he is up. He usually says potty or water, etc.. Then we tell him to do it himself. This usually works unless it is the nights where he states that he needs his lullabies back on, or he needs a cat taken out of his room. We will get up to move the cat, but other than that we try not to interact with him which is what he wants. It seems to work most of the time.