Sleeping Problems

[verysleepy]

Can anybody help, does this sound familiar to anybody? My three year old wakes up nearly every night between 8.30 and 9.30pm crying.
Actually some nights when I go up she doesn't even seem to be awake, sometimes she says it is a bad dream and sometimes she just babbles or keeps wailing for up to 10 minutes.
Any ideas on what I can do to stop this, or is it normal behaviour for a three year old?
She seems happy enough in the day.....

Sounds a bit like night terrors. My DD used to have them -when you went in to her and spoke to her it was as if she was still asleep, you couldn't get through to her. She would be beside herself and you just couldn't calm her.

I think the advice is just to be there and try and reassure them, when they calm down a bit just try and soothe them , lie them down etc

when did your DD stop having them, will mine grow out of them? They have been going on for nearly a year now.

I think it was between about 4-5 that she grew out of them.

Like your DD it was always during the earlier part of the evening - never (or rarely) after we'd gone to bed. Sometimes they'd happen more frequently than others.

Its quite distressing to see them like that isn't it? However DD never really remembered anything about it the next morning.

DP reckoned part of it was due to eating too close to bedtime but I never held with that theory.

It will pass though.

Oh well, just another year and a bit to go then!
She is now on her third waking up tonight...and funnily enough she did eat close to bedtime, although not much, will check out that theory this week.
She doesn't remember waking in the morning either.