2yr old - still waking - waaaaa

[Mrswilson0505]

Hi, my just turned 2yr old is STILL waking in the night :-( he has improved but is still waking at 3am ish
Any advice?

Sorry - no advice here but we are suffering the same with our DD. If she just settled straight away it wouldn't be so bad but she stays awake for 1-2 hours. It's putting a real strain on me and DH. On and off she's been doing this for a year.

Waking for....? Comfort, feed, playtime?

Comfort might be easiest to break, have settling routine they can do without you, dummy or toy or blankie.
Food, hard but they will gowout of it. Mine all wokefor night feeds until 15-18 months then stopped, so hopefully that is nearly where you're at.
Playtime is hard,as they are awake and getting wrong day/night rythym.

Good luck

I have no idea what mine wakes for! She stand on her feet screaming. Might be comfort as she stops when we get there but starts again if we put her down. We bring her into our bed but she doesn't sleep! She romps around thrashes, kicks, stands up, talks. We have tried making her tired-er by cutting out the daytime nap but that makes her unbearably clingy/whingy in the day and so tired by late afternoon she's constantly falling over and bumping into things.

sorry for the slight highjack OP - I'm hoping if we share information we might come up with something!

Thanks for replies
He is going back to sleep after his 9oz of milk
He has a CERY random good night but thats it random
I think it is a comfort thing too.
But when pig in my bed he cant stand cover on
Im just not convinced he will get out of this

I'm afraid ds still wakes at 3.5, although he does now go back in a few minutes. This last fortnight has actually been the best ever - dc2 is due at the weekend so we will be back to square one!

We have found acceptance to be the only thing that has made any difference to our sanity.

Sorry, that's probably not what you wanted to hear.

He's 3.5 years old I mean.

Yep up again waaaaa
He has had his milk and nearly drift back off x

My 17mo was waking up in the night, every night and crying until he got Calpol and/or milk. We tried putting him on a dairy-free diet and now he sleeps through just about every night. Dairy intolerance may or may not be the cause of your child's poor sleep but I wanted to put it out there because no-one ever even suggested before that DS3 could be dairy-intolerant. He was eating butter, yoghurt and cheese regularly and seemed to be okay during the day but nighttimes were a problem. I hadn't realised how subtle and insidious the effects of dairy-intolerance were. But since going dairy-free three weeks ago DS3 is happier during the day as well; he wasn't unhappy before but he's definitely more content and inclined to laugh and giggle than he used to be. If you're really at your wits end with sleep it might be worth a quick trial with cutting out dairy for a week or two.