So my friends son is 21 months and has been sleeping through but since about 7 days ago has stopped! He’s waking around 12:30-2:30 & during this time will struggle to go back to sleep.She resettles him as she normally would if ever he randomly woke up previously but he constantly keeps opening his eyes to check if she is still there. She only leave the room when She knows he’s asleep, however minutes later he’s back up crying for her. He has a stair gate on his door as he can open the door handle now so what happens is he throws his comforter & dummy over it so She has to give back as ironically he wants it. He cries and cries and cries and she has to repeat the above exercise to resettle, falls asleep, leave the room &you got it the same happens. This went on for 3 hours last night and still at the end of the 3 hours was upset and stood by his stair gate. In the end She gave in and he came into there bed. She knows that was the worse thing To do but honestly had tried the above so many times and he just kept waking! Its like he only will settle if She stays with him but that’s never been the case. She has been following nap guides and her child is very very active , always on the go, very alert and curious you would just think he would sleep, is it over tiredness ?
She's at her wits end and hoping you could help.