2 yo waking in night - not night terrors though..

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Bear with me as this takes abit of explaining. DS is 2.5 and recently had a baby sister - 5 months. DS been in his own room, in a bed since before DD was born. No problems. 3 months ago suddenly started (a) getting out of bed just after he was put down (can cope with that) and (b) waking between 1-2am, gets out of bed, and sits outside his bedrooom door till either DH or I put him back in bed. He has a stair-gate so can't get any further. He's quiet initially, but if left will start to shout. Not night terrors or nightmares as there's no shouting, and he's most definitely awake, but not at all upset. Goes back to bed ok. Just means that we're getting broken sleep. DD a good sleeper.

Anyone got any thoughts, or experienced something similar? Only thing I can think of is that his enlarged adenoids means its difficult for him to breathe, but we're not seeing the Consultant again till Sept....

Hi Emme, I have a DD who is 2.3 months and she has just started night waking as well. Sometimes twice a night but usually about 1am-2am. Shes still in a cot bed, so she can't escape as yet but when I go into her she is stood up. She goes back to sleep as soon as I go in and lay her down. I also have to leave the lamp on too, which is a fairly new thing. She started crying when i put her to bed, probably around about the same time as the night crying started (few weeks ago). But we got to the bottom of the problem when she stayed at Granny's and told Granny that she was scared at home when I close the door and the lights out. (Hence the lamp using) So I'm figuring it is just some sort of development phase. Perhaps their little imagainations are having a growth spurt.

It is draining having disturbed nights again, after sleeping through for so long. But i go on auto pilot, i hardly remember getting out of bed to go to her in the morning. If DP didn't get up and swtich lamp off, it'd still be on in the morning! Im basically waiting to see if it is a phase, altho if I had a 5 month old too, i might not be so relaxed about it. Hopefully someone will come on with a bit more know how, but u certainly aren't alone. (Have saw a few threads about this over in behavior section) Good luck!

sounds like he's getting into a sleep pattern, I have the baby whisperer book and a while back we had problems with dd who is almost 2 waking at 5.00am -5.30am in the morning, it says in the book you should gently rouse baby/child an hour before they would normally wake up but don't wake them up fully, do this for 3 nights and it should break his pattern (let me know how you get on) good luck

Same thing happening hear - DD 2 yrs 8 months been in a bed for about 4 months and never got out. Just started getting out at 1-2am and just standing on the landing (or going towards DS room - he is 5). Wide awake and dont know why - last night was worst yet. She was up for about 3 hours on and off (mainly awake). DH and I kept putting her back and she just kept getting up - I even tried laying on her bed to stop her getting up which it did but she didnt go to sleep. This started a couple of weeks ago but only occasionally and she eventually went back to sleep. Last night a different thing altogether. Not sure if connected with potty training which we are trying although the initial waking started before the training - not going too well - but that is another thread - or is it? no solution yet but complete sympathy. think you just have to keep putting them back to bed and not talking or making eye contact but difficult when you are shattered and really cross with them!

Good luck

Hmmmm, we haven't started DS with potty training yet, so for us it can't be anything to do with that. Am encouraged that we're not alone as Health Visitor wanted to put it down to night terrors, which it clearly isn't!

We've even tried one of those Bunny Alarm clocks ("when bunny is in bed you stay in bed too...."). Clearly that isn't working either! I get quite cross about it too, but try not to show it. DH seems more ambivalent but maybe thats because I do the weeknights he just does weekends.....?