what can you do when you two year old keeps needs settling in the night?

[poppyboo]

So she has been a great sleeper until now. She moved out of her cot a week ago. Now she needs me to settle her about 3 or 4 times per night. So she will start screaming and get out of bed and bang on the door until I go into her and say 'get in too bed, snuggle down' and then she settles off again and she is fine. I knew there would be transitional stuff going on when we moved her but I don't know how to stop this turning into major problem (if it hasn't already developed into a habit which I think it has) Because of serious ill-health in the past I still suffer fatigue so really need my sleep. some positive advice with this would be wonderful.

Have you checked teeth? They grow the last 4 molars round about this age, and I had 2 months of hell with DS - but it's all gone back to normal now. I found paracetamol suspension helped, if you're happy with giving that.

I haven't looked at teeth so thats is a good idea, i will take a look. Her temperature has been slightly raised this week and she has been looking a bit flushed.

I probably sound like a horrible mum, like i can't be bothered with my child in the night but it is so hard when i have been used to having a full 8 hours and my LO about 12 hours. She has been so grumpy and sleepy during the day, I feel bad for her.

No helpful ideas, but sympathy from a fellow sufferer.

Ds2 has been like this since moving from a cot to a bed. He's 2.4 and I think I moved him about 6 months ago. He wakes once or twice most nights for no obvious reason and has to be told to go back to bed. It is far worse if he's overtired - last night 4 times.

Is she having any naps during the day? I found my ds slept better when he had a busy day and no naps although obviously not too overtired. Also dont talk to them or give them any eye contact put them straight back to bed.

Same thing here. DS is 2.5 and he has been doing this for about 4 months since we moved him into a bed. He just gets up, calls for one of us and then we have to put him into bed. No apparent reason as to why he does it and he doesn't even know he's doing it. It gets worse if we go away somewhere and he gets unsettled again and then the waking goes up to around 4 times a night. Once in a routine he only wakes up once a night.

At a particularly low point we did try rapid return and that just made things worse even after persevering. We then put up a gate to try to make him realise he had to stay in his own room but that made him completely hysterical and he climbed over the gate. We have now decided that gradual withdrawal works the best and also not talking to DS about it since he doesn't know he's doing it. We are actually more relaxed now that we have left well alone. I am 33 wks pregnant so that's why we wanted to "fix" it.