What can I do about dd2's sleeping.

[Radley]

I hope you wise mumsnetters have some advice for me.

DD2 (4) has always been a bad sleeper, but lately she has become a complete nightmare. Last night she woke up at 2am, 3am and then 6am, she doesn't seem to want anything, but keeps saying her bed is wet (which it isn't).

Nearly every morning she gets up between 6am & 6.30am, although it's not ideal I'm used to it, but dh is getting more short tempered and rattier by the day as he is 'exhausted'.

She goes to bed at 7pm everynight, and we struggle to keep her awake until this time and is usually asleep within 10 minutes or less, even if we do get her to stay up later she is still awake at the same time.

What can i do to try and get her into some sort of acceptable routine, these putting clocks forward and backward are a bloomin nightmare.

Sometimes she comes out of bed, but more often than not she lies there shouting either me or dh.

She also drinks about four bottles of juice, she does this in her sleep, and if there is none left she instantly wakes up and wants some more.

I'll try and cut the juice down to zero during the evening as from tonight.

Hope dh will help though, last night when she started crying, instead of getting out of bed to go and see what is wrong with her, he just shouted 'what's wrong', waking me up in the process and she then came into our room.

I agree with cutting out the juice -maybe aim to have 1 cup of water to last all night?

Try a star chart with the aim of her staying in bed all night and not shouting out to you during the night. To begin with maybe she could have a small reward each morning after a successful night and then aim towards a star for each night and a bigger reward at the end of the week -needn't cost money as it could be a trip to the park etc

HTH

Last night wasn't too bad, but she was still up at 5.50.

Hi everyone, I have a 19 month old son and am really stuck in a sleeping rut with him. From the age of about 12 months we have not been able to keep him in his own cot and up until 1 month ago we started putting him in his pram in the hallway at bedtime as it was far less hassle and he would fall asleep so much easier and then we would carry him to our bed!! For the last month i have spent up to an hour each evening sitting silently by his cot while he drifts off to sleep then tip-toeing out of the room.He then wakes up at half ten to eleven and myself and my partner toddle of to bed with him as he cannot be consoled at this time. We have tried the controlled crying but he gets himself really worked up and vomits and this is not leaving him for more than five minutes.Now i can handle having him dictate the time we go to bed but he doesn't even sleep well and even though we have a super kingsize bed he still manages to have his feet in my face or lie on top of us.I am so fed up with our situation can anyone help?? thanks kath