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sleep advice needed!

beenbizzybeenbizzy member
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Our 3 year old has no trouble falling asleep at night.  The trouble is STAYING asleep.  She usually is asleep by 8:30PM and wakes between 12:30 and 1:30AM.  Sometimes she goes potty, sometimes not.  Regardless, she ends up at the side of my bed.  I take her back into her bedroom and she crawls right into bed and goes back to sleep.  No fussing.  But on the worst of nights, she wakes again and again.  Never has trouble going back to sleep but just wakes and comes into our bedroom.  We've told her over and over if she wakes up to roll over and close her eyes, that she doesn't need to come tell us.  

This has been going on since Christmas.  I've played around with naps vs. no naps and the no nap days usually mean more waking; nap days less waking but always once.  She has probably only had 20 no-wake nights since Christmas.  She's been potty trained for over a year.  Doesn't usually wake to go potty and stays dry all night.  It's not sleep walking, we can have a coherent conversation and her eyes are open.  In the morning, she's very aware of whether she stayed in her bed or not.  

Advice?

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  • BluepointToastedBluepointToasted member
    Just a shot in the dark here, but maybe give her something more concrete to do in the middle of the night when she wakes. Like, instead of saying "just roll over and close your eyes" maybe have a CD player with a lullaby set and ready to go, or a toy that plays soothing music for a set amount of time, that she is supposed to set up and lay back down. As a fellow insomniac I feel her (and your) pain
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  • beenbizzybeenbizzy member
    That's worth a try, I'll take anything at this point!  Our infant has slept through the night for months but obviously I'm not :-( 
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  • ILoveBoysILoveBoys member

    My middle son did that for a while about that age (and I was pg so it was AWFUL!) He was waking up to go pee and then wanted me to cover him back up, which he knew how to do himself. I started asking him to go get back in bed and covering up by himself.  Eventually he started going back to bed on his own. But it DID take a while.

    Could you make her a little bed or sleeping bag by your side of the bed that she could lay in on the nights she comes into your room? Then at least you wouldn't have to get up or be up for long.

    Good luck. :(


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  • nikiz628nikiz628 member
    No advice, as I am in a similar boat with DS right now.  Once he goes to sleep, he stays asleep..its just getting him to GO to sleep. We put him to bed and he is up 50x before we finally get him to go to sleep. This has been going on for about 2 weeks now. We go through spurts like this from time to time.

    I hope you find something that keeps your DD in bed and sleeping through the night!
                                        
                                   
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