Toddler waking in night

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For about 3-4 months now our daughter who is 2 and a half keeps waking in the night and coming into us and we walk her back to bed but have to wait for her to fall asleep before we can leave the room otherwise she screams. This can be upto 5 times a night and is very tiring. She never says why she wakes. How do we get her to just get herself back to sleep if she wakes up and not come into us. She has always been a good sleeper until this last 3-4 month period. Never used to wake up and never came into us so what has changed and how can we get her back to not waking and needing us

Does she sleep in a big enough bed? - we finally moved our 3 year old out of a toddler bed into a single bed and that has helped.
Otherwise I would say it’s just become a habit and it bill be painfully to break but not Impossible. Going to have to keep returning her to her bedroom even if she’s scream. Comfort and return- no big conversation or discussion.

She is still in a toddler bed, it is a cotbed that's now a toddler bed. Sides off it, seems plenty big enough. We went away last week and she slept in a single bed then and we had the same problems. Hope we can break the habit as it's gone on too long now. We thought it would have been a phase that would have stopped by now but it hasn't

Sounds like more of a habit now.

She's not cold? Hungry? Thirsty?

Would a reward chart work?

She can be more of a pain to feed these days with being picky with food but she was full last night as are all her tea. We always give her a drink before bed and she has one of wants when wakes. I do think it's a habit but how we stop it is the question

Might try reward chart again although have tried it with clean g teeth and it never really worked

Not going to lie you will prob have a few nights where you just want to keep her in your bed for some sleep- but with any form of habit breaking it just takes consistency

It's hard it's it!

Might sound silly, but does she like her bed? Could you get a new teddy? New pjs? New blanket? Doesn't have to cost a fortune just a few things to make her bed a more special place?

Personally I would just pick her up and put her in my bed so we can both go back to sleep.

My DD (2.5) was the same through lockdown. She'd always been a fantastic sleeper, could put her to bed awake and she'd fall asleep no worries and you knew you wouldn't see her again til morning. Then for a few months she started waking in the night multiple times for no apparent reason. Then I had a baby 11 weeks ago and we started having to sit with her at bedtime til she fell asleep, took up to an hour.
She literally just grew out of it, was a few months of exhaustion but now we can leave her awake and she'll go to sleep and stay there again.
I agree that consistency is key, just keep taking her back to bed without making a big deal, minimal conversation. Its hard but hopefully she will just grow out of it too!

If it's a bed why don't you put the side back on?