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My 2 year old is constantly waking during the night

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Mumma626 · 26/05/2019 22:50

As my son turned 2 I had another baby (their birthdays are literally days apart!) When we had our second I expected things to be up in the air.
For the past year hasn’t slept through the night. I thought it may have been because his brother was in with us and he wasn’t and he wanted to be in with us as well. So at 7 months we moved our youngest into the same room and they love it.
I am lucky to get about 4 hours sleep at the most. He will go off to bed fine, and he will go off to sleep fine. After an hour or 2 he wakes up. So we give him a small drink of water and then he goes back off to bed. We can then spend an hour maybe more where he is up and down, then when he is in bed he is crying and then he wakes up the youngest and I then have 2 little ones crying at 2am and I don’t know who to sort out first. Then when he does eventually sleep he is up at 4:30/5am
Has anyone had this before? Does it pass with time? If not how did you knock it on the head?
Going all day on what is sometimes 2 hours sleep is starting to really affect me xx

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HennyPennyHorror · 27/05/2019 04:07

Is he napping during the day? At what times? I stopped my DD's naps at 18 months and it fixed this issue.

GailTheFish · 27/05/2019 04:25

Have you tried a gro clock or similar? If he’s now over 2 1/2, I’d be tempted to start with this and a small reward/treat for staying in bed until the sun comes up each night (starting with an early wake up time then stretching this out slowly). What does he want when he wakes up in the night?

Mumma626 · 27/05/2019 15:24

@hennypennyhour he is. He has a nap about 9 till 10am. Otherwise he will fall asleep at 3pm and then we have no hope at night time xx

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Mumma626 · 27/05/2019 15:29

@Gailthefish I haven’t tried anything like that, I will try and find something like that. He doesn’t seem to know what he wants. He comes in and just seems confused. Xx

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