DS is 25mo and generally sleeps through the night. We put him down about 7:15pm and he happily chats in his cot and falls asleep on his own anywhere between 730-8pm.
Most night he then sleeps for 10 hrs without a peep (you can set your clock by him - 10 hrs, and not a minute more...).
Occasionally, and it tends to happen in cycles, so for several nights in a row, he'll wake anywhere between 3-5am. I go get him some warm milk in a beaker, give it to him, he lies back down, I lie down on the floor, he falls asleep, I go back to bed, and he'll then sleep for another 1-2hrs, depending what time he woke up. Basically he brings his total sleep up to 10 hrs ;)
I'm 30 wks pregnant and finding the lying on the floor (even on a mattrass I've put down) hard work, and I often end up falling asleep there, waking up cold and stiff and tired.
If DP goes in DS screams and screams for me and noone gets back to sleep.
I would be happy giving him the milk if I could then just go back to bed, but he wants me in there when he falls asleep.
So - should we a) just carry on - he'll eventually stop, in the way he's eventually stopped all his other sleeping 'quirks', and its not every night.
b) slowly get him to accept the milk but fall asleep on his own - after all he does this at bed time, so we could crack it am sure over a few nights, however much he protests at first.
c) stop the millk and try to get him back to sleep on his own - again, possible with a few nights effort I think.
Am just worried about when DC2 comes along, and I'll be up all night feeding anyway - I don't then want to also have to spend some of the night lying with DS to get him back to sleep on those nights that he wakes up.