2yo DD waking for 2 to hours in night, help!!

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Our 2 year old DD has recently started waking between midnight and 3 am and is awake for at least 2 hours and up to 4! She has been doing it twice a week for the past month. The other nights she sleeps through from 7.30pm until 7am!!
She lies on her bed and for the most part is quiet but does talk and sing to herself. She does eventually go back off but we are having to sit with her else she screams hysterically. She naps for about 1 hour at lunchtime and up to now was sleeping through.
I am wondering whether she is getting to the stage where she doesn't need a nap, although she is shattered and goes down easily for it or if the waking is linked to over tiredness?
Does anyone have similar experiences and can reassure me it is a phase?!
Thanks x

Sorry title of thread should say waking for 2 to 4 hours in the night!

Can you try dropping the nap for a couple of days/a week and see if it helps?

Our DD is 2.5 and started waking in the night, so we have dropped the nap and it seems to have cured it.

She does get exhausted in the afternoon, but giving her something sweet to eat (a couple of biscuits, a little bit of chocolate or some fruit) seems to help get her past it.

Thanks pm. Was your DD showing another signs of not needing the nap? I worry that our DD will get v over tired but may just have to bite the bullet and try dropping it for a couple of days like you suggest.

Thanks for replying

More a process of elimination really/trial and error.

She's past teething, so we know it's not that.

We've dropped the bedtime milk and drinks during the night, so it's not that.

We don't let her into our bed for cuddles any more, so it's not that.

And it's not night terrors.

The days she naps, it takes until almost 9pm to get her to sleep.

The days she doesn't nap, she conks out by 8pm at the latest.

And as long as she has something fun to do, she is happy to skip her nap and doesn't conk out on the sofa. She gets ratty around tea time, but we get past it.

I can only suggest trying it - we did before Christmas and she wasn't ready. Her nursery advocated trying every other day with naps to see what was best for her.