Any ideas on getting a 2 year old to sleep through the night?

[Ezzitigger]

Hi, My DS was 2 years old at the beginning of the month and has never slept through the night. Times vary when he wakes(sometimes 1.30, sometimes 4am. Now he has also started to wake at 4am sometimes 5am wanting to get up and play. I dont mind getting up at 6am but I'd just like a good nights sleep. Any ideas anyone, PLEASE!!

Ezzi - this post could have been me a year ago. My DS is now three and STILL hasn't slept through the night. However, he used to wake three or four times howling and now he just gets up in the middle of the night and comes inhto our bed.

Ideas I was given:

1. Go in and comfort but then turn your back to him and slowly move out of the room. Do this quicker each night until after a week you are just comforting and then leaving.

1. Controlled crying (never worked for me really)

3. Cranial osteopathy - the route we went down and did have a very big effect after about four sessions.

4. Put rollup bed in his room and sleep with him until he has established sleep pattern then follow concept of no 1.

Thanks for your ideas pickupthismess. Already tried 1+2 and cant bear leavng DS to scream the place down which he does. What is Cranial osteopathy? That sounds worth a try.

I took my 2 year old to a homeopath and from the next night she slept through!

Cranial osteopath is a type of massage my 2 year old also has this for other problems and you can see them relaxing as they have it.

That's really true. On the very first go my DS literally collapsed asleep within 5 mins of massage. The osteopath said he was just exhausted. Then everytime we went he just crashed. Then slowly he stopped crashing there but started sleeping at nights.

They work the back, the front and the head. It looks great, fancied it myself. You need to find someone experienced in children.

www.osteopath-help.co.uk/osteopaths/cranial-osteopathy/cranial_osteopathy?gclid= CObrtIfNtJgCFQ0zQgoddQzRVA

Sorry I don't know how to do a link.

Sorry to Hijack, I feel your pain. Lack of sleep is killing my dh as he works shifts and long hours too.
My nearly 2 year old dd has just stopped sleeping through (maybe due to new baby,well he is 5 month now) Interested in the Homeopathy.
sunshine what did this involve??
cranial is supposed to be fantastic, but don't think dd would let anyone touch her.

i have a similar almost 4 year old who has slept thriygh a hsandfl of times

no1 - just to come back on cranial. MY DS2 was a nightmare. I thought there was next to no chance of it working. He wouldn't lie down at all but she allowed me to hold him in my arms (facing me and me sitting on the bed thing)and incredibly he immediately responded. I think he found it so pleasureable. You could discuss this with the osteopath before you go and his/her views. Many will allow a trial session, whcih if it doesn' succeed you don't pay for.

Mine said she had a 100% success rate and I have to say, my DS was pretty damn challenging and she was right - it did succeed.

Thanks for that, Will look into it.