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Need help to break this habit!

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PurplePotatoes · 29/12/2017 11:57

DD who is 4.1 used to be an amazing sleeper. Since her brother was born 15 months ago she's started waking multiple times a night asking to be tucked in (pretty sure she pushes covers off on purpose). She shouts from her bedroom and if we ignore it she just shouts louder and cries until either we go or she wakes the whole house up. On a good night this is once a night but more often than not it starts around 1am and happens 4-5 times then she's awake from 6am wanting to get up.

We've tried various reward type charts, groclock, night lights, ignoring it, bigging her up telling her she's such a big girl for tucking herself in, telling her off, earlier/later bedtime ...NOTHING works and I'm at my wits end with it all. I feel bad being cross with her as I think she is a bit afraid of the dark but I seriously need it to stop. (DS sleeps through so it's not a jealousy thing of us going to him in the night or anything like that) .

Any ideas please?!

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crazycatlady5 · 30/12/2017 10:15

When you say you think she’s afraid of the dark have you got a nightlight?

Or can she come in with you in the night until she grows out of it?

BellyBean · 30/12/2017 20:27

Dd 3.5 regressed sleep a fair bit when dd2 was born. After about 2 months I chatted with her one evening before bed and told her how tired I was and how her calling for me made me more tired and sometimes I ended up being cross mummy. Could she try really hard to not call for me. It worked!!

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