Does your 2 year old sleep?

[Hiddenbiscuits]

All night every night, please be honest! Mine cant be the only one that still wakes surely? Sometimes for milk, sometimes teething pain but other times for no obvious reason... Goes down fine at 7pm but usually wakes at least once some time between 12 and 5 then sleeps again till 6

[helsbels03]

Ds - 2 next week used to be 7-7, since sharing a room in August on holiday now wakes at least once. On day 3 of dreaded no milk just water so watching thread with interest- also how do you manage when he starts waking other dc up too?

[wiltingfast]

Ds was is a star and sleeps through, end of. Goes at 8.30 and would sleep til 8-9 am at wkend.

Dd not so good, truly awful until about 11m when my sister said maybe she's cold and it turned out she was, can't put too many layers on that girl! Still wakes though and she's 21m now, usually just wants her soother, mostly only once, occasionally twice, but we get a few full nights out of her every week now. Steady improvement (says she hopefully).

The teeth were a big factor for her I think. We resorted to giving her a dose of calpol before bed for a long period.

[choceyes]

No my 2.5yr old has never slept through. I stopped the night feeding a few months ago. Made no difference. My ds who was not bf beyond 10 months didnt sleep through till after 3yrs even then not reliably till about 3.5 yrs. My parents say I didnt sleep through till 4 and dh was the same according to pil. No sleep training in our families, so I think its all normal.

[vix206]

DS was a terrible sleeper as a young baby but since 7 months has slept through 7-7 barring illnesses and nightmares. You have my sympathies, I was a gibbering wreck after 7 months of it

[ItsOkayItsJustMyBreath]

Ha

Similar to TSC, ds (23 months) sleeps with me or won't sleep at all and every night I have to contend with manhandling him to the other side of the bed as his preferred sleeping position is with his head on mine, lying perpendicular to me and with his fingers in my nose/ ears.

I'm just grateful that he naps on his own sometimes

[redwellybluewelly]

God no.

We had a run of better nights just before it got cold but we've even had a sleep psych to help as dd's sleep was so so bad.

[Hiddenbiscuits]

Its making me feel better too x

[Cies]

God, please excuse scrappy spelling.

[Cies]

at. two yo De would be waking up a couple. of times a night, wanting cuddles water, a snappy change... Now at 3 yo. he rarely wakes . His baby sister seems to be a good sleeper. so far, so just. goes to show. we're all. different .

[Sunflowergirl2011]

No. This thread has made me feel much better about it :)

[rrreow]

20mo DS wakes once on good nights. He gets milk, lies back down with it and when he's done goes back to sleep. Bad nights (usually if he's either poorly or hasn't eaten much in the day) he wakes up more than once, which is difficult because I am reluctant to give milk more than once. Luckily no teething at the moment (just waiting for the teething for the back molars to start... dreading it).

I think waking up in the night is pretty normal. I wake up at least once to go to the toilet (when I'm not pregnant.. right now it's more like 4-6 times a night!). It's obviously ideal if they can settle themselves when they do though, but they're still very little and don't have the capacity to reason or rationalise much, so needing a parent to settle them is quite understandable and normal. Lucky parents whose kids slept through from 6 weeks! I don't think I know any.

[Pascha]

DS1 2.4 sleeps all night usually. He also slept all night from about 6 weeks. DS2 at 2 weeks old is knocking the smugness out of me though. He doesn't sleep at all yet.

[ScarletLady02]

No....DD is just two and she only slept through for the first time at 18 months. We're at that difficult stage with sometimes not needing day-time naps at the moment so some nights she'll go down at 7.30 and sleep for 12 hours....then last night she'll want to go to bed at 5.45 and wake up at 10pm screaming until I put her in the bloody bed with me. She probably sleeps through 4 or 5 nights out of 7 now...much better than she used to be.

[breatheslowly]

26 months, DD sleeps through 5/7. We wouldn't give her milk when she wakes as she hasn't needed it since about 7 months. She also hasn't really had problems with teething (I hope her next molars come through without to many peoblems). So she has less reason to wake in the night. When she does wake one if us goes in and lies next to her. We have decided tonight to stop using the baby monitor, so I think we may be able to ignore more of her slight wakings.

[SpottyBagOfTumble]

Yes. Half seven till six ish.

[LapinDeBois]

Yes, 7.30pm until 7am (sorry!). Caveats, though: one, he has a dummy at night, which I think keeps him quiet (so he might be awake without me knowing). Two, he's about to go into a bed, so who knows then!!

[BeaWheesht]

She sleeps 7-6ish and also an hour or so late morning.

She was a brilliant sleeper until 18m then woke 2/3 times a night for no reason or maybe wind until 2 weeks ago at age 2.4. Interestingly this coincided with dh doing nights with her for the first time ever because I was ill. She muttered a bit but didn't get up properly like she did with me...

[IcanandIwill]

No but I wish she would. She struggles to settle, struggles to stay asleep, wakes several times a night. I am eexhausted

[naughtynancy]

Yes, all night, every night, 7pm to 8/8.30am.

He's 26 months.

[mysweetie]

May DD wakes up for different reason,. and usually she want me to be beside her.

[LindaMcCartneySausage]

Yes, DS sleeps 7.30 to 7 99% of the time. He's 23 months. That said, he was awful until about 14 months, when he suddenly "got" sleep. I was fed up hearing about everyone else's wonder children who had slept through from 2 months.

[Beatrixpotty]

8.30-7.30 unless ill.Shares room with older brother (3),think it helps as doesn't get lonely and crave attention.Both were rubbish sleepers until 8-9 m

[omama]

Yes my ds is 2.5 & sleeps through from 8pm-7am if he's napped, & 7pm-8 or 9am if he hasnt napped. The only time we have to settle him at night is if he's poorly, otherwise if he wakes in the night he usually rolls over & goes back to sleep without us having to go in. All that said, he hasnt always been this way, from 6-18 months he was up at 5-5.30am most days & sometimes even earlier. So am making the most of the recent sleepy spell!

I agree with pp's most people have a different definition of sleeping through, so wrt your friends lo's it may not be as it seems. I do think you would see some improvement in the night wakings if you cut the night feeds tho.x

[leelteloo]

I went cold turkey with the milk at night when she was 9 months. I found that she did wake less once she realised there would be no food. But the reality was that nothing we tried stopped her waking. In the end I was so desperate for sleep and so sick with morning sickness that I slept with her. Did this for 2 months and when I felt better and moved out, she continued to sleep through. It broke the pattern? Not sure I'd advocate it as a sleep solution but I was beside my self with sleep deprivation.

[Wallace]

Ever