Toddlers waking in the night, easy to settle but means we are waking too, is it just luck if they sleep through?

[sweetkitty]

Toddlers I mean, I know it's different to babies waking but my two are 3.9yo and 2.3yo and they wake at least twice in the night each. They are easy enough to settle back in their beds, DD1 just gets put back in bed with comfort toy and she's fine, DD2 gets sshhed a bit in her cot and she goes off.

I'm pregnant right now so DP does the majority of the settlings but sometimes you are up 6 times in the one night and it is knackering especially as he's up for work at 6am the next day.

I don't know if they are just coming out a deep sleep and waking from a dream or something but we could really do without it with the new baby coming along, can't remember the last time we had a full nights unbroken sleep. They used to be a lot better than this so I don't know whats changed?

any ideas?

Thanks riven my SIL has an always asleep teenager and I'm envious of her (well just that part) it's no big deal getting up and settling one once in the night but sometimes when it's the 6th or 7th time it does really get to you.

Babies I can handle they are supposed to do it they are waking for food.

They go to bed at 8pm brilliantly and get up about 7am so no problems there, I am thinking of getting DD1 one of those bunny clocks and trying to get her to self settle.

IMHO you need to teach them to self-settle .. you shouldn't have to get up to a toddler they should have the skills to get themselves back to sleep if they wake up

Thats what I want to do twiglett, DD1 will come through to our room if wakened, DD2 howls in her cot. I want them to know if they wake in the night one of us will come and they haven't been abandoned IYSWIM but on the other hand want them to be able to get themselves back to sleep.

So how do you teach them to self settle?