3 year old multiple night wakings 😭

[Pumpkinbumkin200]

Any ideas please?
3 year old has been having multiple night wakings for about 6 months now. Goes to bed ok but can wake anywhere between one and four times a night most nights.
Usually just wants a quickish cuddle or a drink or something but also have a 1 year old (who actually wakes less than her!) But still it's exhausting.

Same.
Think it's because they have tea at nursery and so aren't hungry when they come home.
Refuse to eat dinner properly and so falls asleep fine because they're exhausted from the day but then tosses and turns and wakes constantly/extremely early because they're hungry.
Managed to get something down them last night and they slept through again! Maybe review eating pattern?

Dd went through this phase. How close are your bedrooms? I used to sleep with the door open and after the first wake up would call to her to go back to sleep and mummy would see her in the morning. Worked sometimes!

Invest in a groclock and take a few nights practicing that when it’s blue she has to stay in bed and when yellow can get up. I used to make a special breakfast for Dd when she stayed in bed till it was yellow so she got it 😅

I'm right there with you OP, and it's torturous isn't it?

It stemmed from letting her co sleep with us through a particularly nasty bout of tonsilitus several months ago so we could keep a close eye on her temp etc and now she's gotten into a habit of waking multiple times.

Most times it's asking to come into mommy and daddy's bed to sleep and others it's for a cuddle or a drink or because her duvet has fallen. It's a phase I'm hoping and will pass eventually.

No advice unfortunately, just lots of sympathy from one tired momma to another.

It's not the getting out of bed that's a problem as she stays in bed but just cries/screams for us! And I can't leave her long as worried she will wake the baby! We have a groclock. I just don't know why she is waking so much. 😭

Also, she has never co slept with us and doesn't really ask to come into our bed. Just needs us to keep going in for a cuddle etc

Thanks! Sending sympathy to you too!

Yes usually does have a good dinner at 5ish and if she doesn't or is still hungry she has Weetabix or Shreddies before bath. I did wonder if it was her needing the loo as she is still in nappies at night but I ask her and she says no.

I'd leave a drink by the bed and stop the cuddles- sounds harsh but its a habit that you need to break if you want to.
You can explain before bed, do a reward chart, make a big deal of the morning hug, still go in to reassure but not cuddle - just need to break the habit.

Oh god this is us too, DD wakes up shouting multiple times a night. It’s a killer. There is nothing wrong - she has water with her in bed, doesn’t need the loo etc. Just wants a cuddle or asks for one of us

Same here! She also had water by her bed. Just wants one of us when she wakes! Hope it passes soon but has been a long phase so far!

Urgh I'm with you. LO is the same. Been a rubbish sleeper but had finally started sleeping through now is back to waking up again makes me want to cry.