2 year old not sleeping through ever

[Southseagirl]

I have a friend who has a child that is over 2. She claims he has never slept though the night and wakes most nights and then doesn't go down again, also he doesn't nap. She constantly talks about how he doesnt sleep yet When I questioned her about why he thought he didn't sleep she seems to think its normal and that it's something 'some children do'. I worry about the child as it seems try are given a lot of medicine whether they show signs of needing it or not. Is it normal?

My 2 year old had never slept through, ever. It is a variation of nornal.

Why are you concerned? What do you mean about medicine?

I'm worried about her the mum, the little girl is lovely but I worry about sleep deprivation for her mummy

Mine has slept through twice and is 2.10, and some of her friends are the same, so it is as TheRealMBJ says a variation of normal. The sleep deprivation for me sometimes feels killing but I'm determined to carry on (bloodyminded).

We never use medicine though, that's a whole other issue, and not right if they're being given things when they don't need.

My 2 1/2 year old doesn't sleep through the night or nap. He hates sleep and battles against. I am permantly shattered.

My 30month old has never slept through. She occasionally has a nap during the day depending on how physically active we have been.

Perhaps she is not active enough during the day to need a nap but then overtired by the time bed time comes and not able to sleep. Maybe you could go swimming together in the morning with a buggy walk afterwards, always sure to send my DD to sleep.

On a few occasions when she was preverbal during stages of teething/cold season I gave her a low dose of calpol if there was no explainable reason why she wasnt going to sleep until late. This was never to dose her up to sleep but just incase something was wrong ear/head ache or teething pain that she couldnt communicate.

Mine used to wake up at least twice at night, but she will settle back quickly (lucky I was). To make it easier on us, we co-slept with her until she kicked her father out of the bed. She is 3 now, and sleeps very well, and we want her to start sleeping on her own by next month. We did not need any medicine for neither us or her to manage that, she will hug me when she woke up in the night and then settle back to sleep.

Neither of my DSs had slept through by 2. It's not abnormal.

DD is nearly three and doesn't sleep through. My ds didn't sleep through until he started school.

With ds we did controlled crying ... blah! blah! and it didn't make much difference. With dd we have found it easier for either my husband or I to share a room with her. She wakes up about 2 to 3 time a night and settles back fairly easily.

Yes, not sleeping through at that age is normal for some children. My just 2yo has never slept through (although she does nap, and she does go down again at night when she wakes if she comes into bed with me). She will though. At the moment, it's not much more disruptive for me than waking for a middle-of-the night loo trip.

If a child is otherwise happy and healthy and his/her sleeping habits are not (as a rule) impactingly negatively on the parents or siblings, then why worry? (My PoV, obviously.) I have an older DC whose sleeping was just awful so I did some sleep training when he was about 10 mo. As a result, he was, more often than not, sleeping through by the time he was 1. But he was a shockingly early riser - still is really. And his sister isn't. Swings and roundabouts.

Anyway, just my anecdotal experience, of course - but I guess what I'm trying to say is if your friend isn't worried enough to want to do something about it then I don't think you should be.

Although I'm not sure what you mean about medicine. Do you mean she doses her DC with something to make her sleep? . 'cos that, of course, would be a slightly different matter.