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My really good 3 year old sleeper is now waking up for 2 hours in the night! Dont understand why !

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cazzywhite · 10/04/2010 10:00

My daughter (4 in May) has always been brilliant at sleeping. You just read her a story,and left her to fall asleep by herself, and then slept through until 8 the next morning.

A month ago she started being awkward about going to bed with lots of grizzling and crying and refusing to go to sleep unless we said goodnight about 5 times, and was taking an hour or so to finally go to sleep. Then in the early hours would wake up crying wanting another drink, wanting her dad, wanting a story, wanting mummy and causing a lot of grief. Tuesday night she was awake from 4am till 6 am, and last night it started at 2 am until we put her in my bed in desperation at 3.30.

Then a funny thing happened, after 15 mins in my bed I said 'Do you want to go back into your room?' , She said yes, tottered off back to her bed for 5 mins, then got up again, went into the bathroom, had a wee, went back to her bed andback to sleep ! Half an hour earlier she was screaming and refused to let us even shut her bedroom door

I just dont understand why after 3 .5 years of no problems at all this is happening now.

Any advice gratefully received !

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mumsie123 · 10/04/2010 18:56

HI my daughter is has turned into a madam, she has just turned 4!

Always been a brilliant sleeper since the day she was born, go up with no crying etc then she started the "i need a wee" every 5 mins, and crying etc getting up at like 5am when she never got up before 8!!

What i did was be a bit of a mean mummy and told her off, i made sure that she done a wee, and had no juice after certain time so when she cried for a wee i said no way and stuck to it. Also i said i would put a gate on her room if she got up to early (which i would of done) i found this all mostly started when i took her nappys off at night.

Now she still palys about at night but i simply let her choose she can go to bed like a good girl and have a story or mummy will take her up with no stort, it usualy works.

HTH

AnnabellesMummy · 10/04/2010 19:23

Hi, cannot give you any advice on this I'm afraid except that you're not alone! my daughter turned 3 in March and it could have been me writing everything that you said cazzywhite - mine was the perfect sleeper, understood the bedtime routine and went down without a wimper ... not so now, when we go up for bathtime she shouts and screams that she doesn't want to go to bed, everything's a battle and she canot be reasoned with ... I am turning into a shouting mummy and I don't like myself for this (my husband has had enough and gone to the pub .. it's been a tough day) - so sorry there's no advice, just empathy!! Hold on in there, Everything is just a phase I'm told! x
p.s. mumsie123 - you're so right,keeping firm has to be the only way otherwise they'll walk all over us! thank you x

mumsie123 · 10/04/2010 19:55

As i typed that my little madam was sitting on the landing.. ha ha ha , but i went straight up and told her enough she is to go to bed, pain in the butt!!

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