Does your 2 year old do this at night?

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For the last 6 months or so my 2yr old son will wake up for at least an hour having full conversations with himself, clapping, pretend coughing, shrieking etc . It's normally between 1-3 am at least 5 nights a week. He's never upset, I don't need to go in to settle him he just goes quiet again and falls back to sleep

Is this pretty common?

Not here. He just comes in and somehow takes up the whole bed.

Does the loss of sleep affect his functioning in the day?

No, my DS doesn't do this - he might sit and sing to himself before he goes to sleep and when he wakes in the morning but not in the middle of the night.

He is going through a phase of crying out in the night - I presume he's having bad dreams

Doesn't seem to affect him during day but I suppose I can't really tell as don't know what he'd be like if he didn't do it!

Lots of children have phases of waking up. At least he isn’t distressed. I think you see doing the right thing by not going in to see him, as that could create bad habits. Don’t worry!

My 4 year old does this, have a read up on night terrors and nightmares to see if it fits!? My son never remembers and it's generally between 10 and 3am.