I really don't know what to do with DS(4). He's never been a good sleeper and stopped napping in the day at around a year old. He goes to bed at 6:30pm and is asleep by 7-7:15pm (after bedtime stories), there's no issues with that. He starts waking most nights about 10pm (I've just heard him call me, that is weird!) and will wake about 3 times in the night and then be up at any time between 4:30-5:00am.
I have tried putting him to bed later but it has no effect, he still gets up at the same time and still wakes in the night.
He started reception a month ago and I was hoping this would help but it hasn't. He does occasionally surprise me by sleeping through for a couple of nights every few weeks, each time I think thank god, at last!, but it doesn't last.
He cries and shouts when he wakes up in the night, he wants me to sleep with him but I haven't shared a bed with him for about 6 months now (I can't sleep in the same bed with him, he talks, wakes up, moves around a lot in his sleep), maybe he still misses it, I'm not sure.
He is very active and has lots of physical activities every day, nothing seems to wear him out. I seriously don't know where he gets his energy from.
I keep telling myself that he just doesn't need much sleep but that doesn't help me at 3am when I'm telling him to get back to bed whilst he shouts at me.
Any ideas?
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4 year old still doesn't sleep through the night most of the time.
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TheCunkOfPhilomena · 12/10/2015 22:08
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