Nearly 3 year old getting up in middle of night for no reason - help

[PetitFilou1]

Ds has got up at around 4am for the last three nights and wanted to come into our bed. He normally sleeps through no problems. He isn't cold, doesn't want a wee, is just awake. Any ideas of how best to deal with him? He throws a wobbler if you try to put him back - which we do eventually manage.

My ds used to sleepwalk and I used to have to put him back to bed 2 or 3 times a night. Then suddenly he just stopped.
Maybe he's having bad dreams or perhaps its a phase he's going through.
I wouldn't let him sleep with you though. I did that with ds1 and it took 4 years before he'd sleep in his own bed again!

Keep putting him back. He may be at an age where hes dreaming and wakes up a little bit frightened.

I would put him back. Our DD whose 2 1/2 has just started doing the same and weve just had a new baby and shes been ill with a bug a few times so im being over anxious and made dh get into her bed with her but now shes waking most nights so weve put a stop to it. Its just habit and they will do whatever they think they can get away with.

My dd (3.5) has recently started doing this too, after previously being a good sleeper. She wakes at about the same time each night, 2-3am and cries for us. When I go in to her she says she wants to come in bed with us. I don't want that though so I re-settle her back in her own bed, even if it means going back into her room (at increasing intervals) 2 or 3 times before it works. She doesn't actually get out of bed tho, just cries! I think it's a phase, and eventually she'll go back to how she was before. I hope so!!

Does he have a light in his room, my DS1 is 3.6 and has a little nightlight - his request (its actually a ghost light from ikea)

He also requests now that we leave his door open as well as we have a lamp on the landing as he likes the light.

my ds has started to do this,he can be up a few times a night.He usually just needs a cuddle and then goes back to bed.
we did find a start chart worked but only for a short time,he seems to have phases of waking.

i now ignore him,he comes to our bedroom and i just tell him to go back to bed,feels slightly neglectful but he hasn't come in the last two nights

My daughter came into our room every night until she was 5 - there never seemed to be a reason and I just put her back in her bed. I was then wide awake though! Eventually she grew out of it, thank goodness.

I think some children are just lighter sleepers than others. As it happens, my daughter's room is on the front of the house, so perhaps something in the street was waking her.

Our just 3 year old DS has started this the last couple of weeks. I was so tempted to bring him in our bed but resisted the urge.

I suppose all you can do is ride it through and keep returning them to bed with as little conversation as possible. Thats what we are doing anyway so hope it will work.

my 3.5 yo does it too. after being such a great sleeper from 5m too... and, oddly, my 2.6yo is now the most reliable sleeper and even sleeps in till about half 8 eveery morning now...
still, the 11mo is sleeping more or less reliably through the night now

Yep its so bloody frustrating when they have been such good sleepers previously

i have to admit, i have relented and just let ds1 one into bed now. hes so cuddly. and delicious. and no matter how long i let it go on, i bet he wont be doing it when hes 15... cant help thinking this delicious yummy cuddly stage is so short in the grand scheme of things...

It is very tempting but I will not give in to it .

Having said that we are stopping at my mums tonight and I imagine he will be worse than ever there. I dont want him waking the whole house up so maybe I can get away with it just the once .