Does your 3 year old sleep through?

[bedtimebrew]

Just that really

I co-sleep with 3 year old DS. He stirs 3 or 4 times a night and I cuddle him until he falls back to sleep.

It's not a problem for me but I just wondered if it was normal/common. Otherwise sleeps 7pm-7am

My 3 year old will go to bed at 7:30 pm and wake up at 7am ish sleeping through without any problems

If he does wake up earlier he will just come get in my bed with me
But I have no problem with him doing that

He’d probably just resettle by himself if you weren’t there.

She does, but sometimes when I’m up feeding the baby I hear her call out in her sleep, but I’ll go in and she’s soundo. I think at that age if they do wake they can get themselves back to sleep pretty easily 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yes, gets up to use the toilet but then straight back to bed.

I do wonder if he would. I'm certain he wouldn't initially but that he would in time.

I don't need him settle alone/ It's culturally normal for us to co-sleep. I just wondered if he was waking more than most children.

Yes, sleep trained in his own room from 5months. He was such a bad sleeper, woke up every 2hours had to get a routine pronto

No.

He's not 3 yet but he won't.

My other two didn't sleep through until they were 5 and 6. I just taught them not to ninja style creep into my bed so I didn't wake up.

They would creep in around midnight and creep out in the morning and go and watch TV. It wouldn't wake me up, I used to think they hadn't done it until I asked them and they told me they did (they, but at different times there's a 4 year age gap)

He was such a bad sleeper, woke up every 2hours

That's not a bad sleeper 😂😂😂

Yes and no. He stays in his bed 7:30-7:30, very rarely cries out (only if bangs himself on the headboard) but I do hear/see his musical torch if I'm awake fairly regularly. So he does stir but settles himself.

Exceptions for illness then he will cry until I go in.

Not usually. Often wakes once or twice and I go and settle him (or else he just tells louder, wakes himself up more and gets too worked up to go back to sleep). Sometimes sleeps through, sometimes wakes more often.

My dd is nearly 3. She will sleep through in her own bed and bedroom about 90%.

If she's in our bed, she always stirs at least twice. But she's usually only in our bed because she already wants more comfort - like feeling poorly or having a developmental leap.

Almost 3. Yes. For almost a year now, sleeps from 7.30 is to about 7.30am. Occasionally wakes about 10pm and comes downstairs for a cuddle.

Not yet. He appears in our room about midnight scrambles over dh and settles himself in the middle with a big contented sigh. We wouldn't mind but he wriggled and pushed us both out of a king bed. Sigh.
Put back technique doesn't work. He just comes back again

Similar to yours, wakes 3-4 times for a cuddle. If he's poorly, he's up all night. Otherwise 7-7 or thereabouts.

He’d probably just resettle by himself if you weren’t there
Mine doesn't. If he's in his room, he cries, gets upset, gets out of bed and comes to get in with me. If he's next to me, it depends, sometimes he just wants a quick cuddle, sometimes he goes mad whether I'm next to him or not

It's 50:50, will sometimes go through until 5am or so (DS is an early riser) but quite often will wake and call out for us. On the nights he wakes DH sleeps with him in the spare room (I co-sleep with baby DS2).

Out of 3 children 1 of them did. If he didn't have night terrors anyway. One didn't sleep ever, still doesn't but is 11 so just reads. One was at 3 just about getting to the point where they would fall asleep on the sofa while I pottered around and then be carried up to bed but would always end up in with us. That child is 7 and asleep next to me because they still prefer going to sleep in my bed! They do stay put once carried through to their own and will go to sleep in their own if asked to but I like the snuggles.

My 3 year old (3 years 4 months, which I think makes a difference vs. 'almost 4') sleeps through in her own bed from 7:30 to 7am about 70% of the time.

The other nights she wakes up once or twice, usually for no determinable reason.

She comes straight into our room and looms over our faces terrifyingly. We don't hear her approaching, just a rasping 'Mummmaaay" inches away from my eyeballs.

If it's before 5am one of us will take her back to her own bed and she usually settles almost immediately. If it's after 5am we sneak her into our bed (a double, so too small for three people) until 7am.

All-in-all, it's kinda fine, I'd prefer a full night's sleep, but it could be a zillion times worse.

I am surprised at the amount of 3 year olds requiring settling. There's actually currently no room in our bed as I'm co sleeping with the baby.

I'm reliably informed by my DM that I first slept through the night at 5 so I think there must be a genetic element!

I have a 2.5 year old so not quite 3 yet but but no not yet normally goes to bed for 8 then up throughout the night sometimes she wants milk and a song other times she's up up. Been up since 5.50 today!

My nearly 4 year old hasn’t needed resettling at night (unless ill) since 18 months. She was an awful sleeper as a baby, one that woke every 20-40 minutes for months. Didn’t sleep train, she just got better at sleeping (all of mine have been the same).

I can’t imagine cuddling a 3year old back to sleep though, with mine it’s always been a quick hug, kiss, tucked back in and then left but then by that age they all seemed to prefer being left and would squirm and wriggle if cuddled. I’m sure that if my 1 year old is still waking at 3 and still wants to be cuddled I’ll be doing it 😀

I am surprised at the amount of 3 year olds requiring settling

Why?

We also co sleep with our 3 year old. Sometimes he stirs, he might have little coughing fit so need some water, can’t find his comforter, just getting in to a better position. I think general things he might settle on his own if he wasn’t in with us if you see what I mean. He rarely wakes up crying and needing us to settle him.

3.5. Wakes up every night. Anywhere between 12.30 and 4. I think he would sleep through if we slept in bed with him. He is a sensitive child and seems to want one of us close to him at night.

Not really

We are using reward charts which are working to some extent - we’re getting about 60-70% compliance. Before that it was every single night. Costing us a fortune in paw patrol tat but it’s worth it.

On the nights he wakes up he won’t resettle himself - we need to go in and sit with him til he’s asleep again. For some reason he doesn’t want to be in our bed, he wants us in his - so that’s something for the parent not on duty!