20m frequent waking - does he just want a chat?

[trixie123]

DS used to be such a great sleeper bar occasional phases easily identifiable as teeth / cold etc. Lately he has been regularly wakening the small hours and seeming just to want to be with us and "chat" (for which read randomly babble with the occasional word). His vocab is increasing all the time. CM theory is that he is just wanting to practise and chat. Any ideas on if this a known "thing" and if so, what we can do about it? DC2 due soon and would like to get my sleeping angel back!

No experience yet, but it does sound like the verbal equivalent of cot crawling if that makes sense.

Hope it settles back down for you soon

DO NOT ENGAGE! The worst thing you can do is indulge this - do not chat back. He needs to work out that while chatting is good, chatting is strictly for the daytime. Ignore completely - settle him back down with minimum interaction. If he has nothing to wake up for, he'll drop the habit.

thanks Hassled, we did eventually resort to that, just sitting in the chair next to his cot while he rambled on and at length he settled down and drifted off.
Fumblina - never heard of cot crawling - am intrigued!

y'know when they are learning to crawl and do it up, down and around the cot during the bloody night until they master it. DD did it for weeks, then would get stuck at the end banging her head against the bars.