Wired 2 year old in the middle of the night

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Hi everyone

I have a 2 year old (turned 2 last week) who for the past 6 months has been waking in the night a few times (she used to be a great sleeper). This past week, she's refused to go back to sleep and seems wired / hyper. Last night she was up from midnight to finally falling asleep with me in the spare double bed at about 4am. We've tried everything... controlled crying, cuddles, telling her off... my husband and I are at our wits end! We've even moved her to a toddler bed which doesn't seems to have made much difference as she started the waking up before changing beds.

She currently gets up around 7am, has a 45 minute nap around lunch time and goes to bed at 7pm. Bed time routine consists of bath around 6:30, story and in bed at around 7pm.

Any thoughts / help would be hugely appreciated.

Thank you!

Over tiredness may be an issue. If sleeping solidly through the night (11-12h) I'd expect 2-3h or daytime sleep at this age.

45min lunchtime nap is very short anyway. Even more so with broken over night sleep.

Is there any reason she can't sleep longer at lunchtime? How does she go to sleep at nap time and bedtime?

Ah I would say the opposite of the pp we had this a few months ago with our 20month old and have cit her nap to 20min and she is in bed 6pm.to 5am but rarely falls asleep before 7pm and wakes before 5am at lest once a week. She is not remotely tired but her brother stopped napping at 18months so I guess we may just be unlucky.

Dd's awake 2 hour phase at night has either been caused by a long nap or illness. We find it best to go into her as soon as she stirs and then let her fall asleep really deeply before rrplacing her into the cot. Dh has some success with repeatedly laying her down and just sitting next to her but I'm too soft