I just don't know what to do.... Our DS keeps waking in the middle of the night and talks, shouts, laughs, basically recites his whole day but for around 2 hours in the middle of the night. If he's not reciting his day, he's calling for me and then crying and then talking to himself which keeps me and DH awake. The awful thing is that we have a DD who is 13 weeks old and is like an angel, sleeping all night so DS is really getting me down. I'm not good when tired and have been awake since 4am this morning so today is going to be awful... I just know it. In a couple of hours DS is going to be very cranky and defiant and mean to his sister and I won't be able to handle it as well as I should as so tired and basically irritable. I know I should be calm and relaxed and 'adult like' but end up getting cross and losing it which doesn't help the situation at all.
I've tried a sticker chart for sleep as birthday coming up and if sticker chart gets full he gets a bouncy castle at his party - things have improved as not a nightmare every night now but only two or three nights a week. Help me.... has anyone else had this problem. DS is 3 at the end of this month and starts pre-school just after his birthday. How on earth will he cope at school if he's been up half the night? BTW if he wakes up at 2am for a couple of hours, he tends to sleep until 8/9am (rather than the usualy 6/7am). He does have a good bedtime routine with bath, stories and bed at 7pm.
We moved house at the beginning of this year and had our DD in March but DS has been like this since before our move and before DD was born so don't think that could have unsettled him... Really don't know what to do... sorry for waffling.... Any advice would be very much appreciated.