2yo dd has started waking since her brother arrived

[1978andallthat]

Dd is just 2. Ds arrived a fortnight ago and dd is ultra loving and doing brilliantly. No sharing issues or difficultness yet. Except she's tarted waking middle of night. To start with I thought it was da waking her up but last night and tonight he's been sleeping when she woke, wanting milk and to sleep in mummy's bed. In fact dh is putting her back to bed now while I feed newborn who woke shortly after she did.

I am assuming this is all down to the changes in her life and her needing extra reassurance at moment but any ideas how to stop it as dh back at work next week when sleep becomes more important again, for all of us.

Hey 1978

I had the same thing. DD was 2.4 when DS arrived. She was totally fine with him during the day but for the first 3 or 4 months we had various things waking us up e.g getting out of bed and coming into our room, calling out for a cuddle, calling out for a drink (even though she had a drink on her bedside cabinet), calling to go to the toilet (this was at the point we toilet trained her 2mths after he was born and she still wore nappys at night), calling for no reason, waking early etc the list goes on..

She settled down to normal again over time and is now totally back to her normal 7-7 sleeping. We got a gro clock which helped with some of it, so you could try that.

We are just about to give nappy free nights a go now, so no doubt we will be set back a bit again!! It never ends ;-)

Good luck

Thank you. Good to know it gets better but gulp to 3-4 months. We have to nappy train soon too.