Help and advice please!
My nearly 3 year old DS has always been an excellent sleeper. Never fights bedtime and although wakes earlier (6am) he usually sleeps through unless unwell.
A few months ago he got a bit scared at Halloween and started coming into our room at night for comfort. We managed to stop this with a bit of firmness and some bribes.
This then turned into him staying in his room but occasionally crying out for us in the night. All ok, we go in and check everything is alright and he goes back to sleep pretty quickly
This escalated a week ago which did coincide with an illness,
He now goes to sleep quickly but it seems every time he lightly wakes up, rather than just going back to sleep, he cries and calls for us. Then wants a drink or his tonie box on.
This is every couple of hours and sometimes every 30 mins until he tires himself out.
He has said he's not scared of anything and just seems to want to see us.
He has a nightlight on, comforters, tonie box to put a story on.
We have tried going in and firmly telling him it's bedtime, we've tried bribes but nothing seems to work now
We also have a 6 month old who I really don't want to wake up as currently sleeps very well.
I don't want to leave him crying but I'm at a loss what else to try and both him and me (and DH at the weekends) are shattered!!