3 year old waking in middle of night - please help!

[Lizbiz89]

We took my dd's bars off her cot a few weeks ago and all seemed to go quite well. However over the last two weeks she has started waking in the middle of the night. She then starts shouting and waking the whole house up. She eventually goes back to sleep but my whole night is disturbed after that. I'm so exhausted now and I don't know what's going on. Has anyone else been through this with there lo? She was such a good sleeper before we changed her into a cot bed. I'm at my whits end now.

We've just done the move into my DD's big girl bed and it's the same here. Up at least once every night and bedtimes are taking forever! I guess it's just a period of adjustment and I'm hoping that she'll revert back to her normal sleep pattern in due course. Until then there's always coffee.

Get a gro clock!

@Disappointedkoala it's horrendous isn't it! I thought we were long past the sleepless nights. @Pickles89 did you the gro clock work for you?

@Lizbiz89 gro-clock worked perfectly for my niece who got a proper (low) bed at about 18 months old but at 2 and a half got into a habit of washing up au 3 in the morning or so and coming into her parents bed. When the grow clock was introduced she got it right away and they've broken that habit now. They started "morning" at 5.30 and gradually moved it forward so she only gets up at 6.30 now to tell them it's morning and they should get up :)

@TigerQuoll thank you! Just ordered one. Fingers and toes crossed it works.

Im having the same issue, just put dd into her own room and a big girl bad. She will not settle and is up during the night when previously slept 12 hours. Nothing is working

@Cantthinkofausename try the the gro clock! We got it on Thursday and so far 🤞 we've had no wake up calls. Praying it continues.

My DD has woken up almost every night for the last 6 months, she’s 3. I presumed it was a developmental thing, before that she had been sleeping through since she was a small baby. I’ve just kind of accepted it hoping that it’ll stop on it’s own eventually! We have a gro clock, it stops her getting out of her bed but doesn’t stop her waking up

I can certainly try the gro clock, im not sure it would work though. Its not a case of her not knowing its bedtime, she does. She said shes scared in her room. She just screams constantly/gets out of bed etc. Im kicking myself now, i think i should have put her cot in her new room 1st until she got used to the room and then put her in a bed, instead of putting her in a new bed in a new room😔

I think it must be a security thing. But the gro clock definitely has helped. I have also started giving her a nightly routine of stroking her head for a few minutes before I leave her room. Just to help to relax her. But it's definitely a phase I wasn't aware of until it happened. Glad I'm not the only one going through it.