3 year regression??

[Bizziee]

I keep reading that there is a regression around 3 years old?? Like, I really thought I was done with all this regression shit. WHY!? It's been a bad night and I am tired as hell.

My little boy is usually a really good sleeper, goes down easily and generally doesn't wake in the night. We've had trouble with mornings as he wakes at 5am and no matter how many times I move around his bedtime he still gets up early. I hate it. But during holidays he wakes up at 7 and I just don't get it!? He doesn't nap anymore either unless he's had a bad night. His room is very cosy, he always sleeps with his panda bear, has blackout curtains and blinds, his projector night light and his room is reasonably sound proofed. I should probably also mention that he is in nursery full time and we've been potty training for what seems like forever. He's very slowly getting there. He's in pants during the day and a pull up at night that he sometimes takes off.

What am I doing wrong? And how long is this new regression going to last??? What do I do? I never ever leave him to cry but when I go in to check on him and ask him what's wrong he just looks at me or rolls over to go back to sleep.... 🧐 I'm meant to be going back to work soon and the thought of doing it with little sleep is filling me with anger and anxiety. I'm so not a morning person 😭 or good at handling the inevitable mum fatigue. It sucks

How long has this been going on, @Bizziee? DD has just turned 3 and we had 3-4 weeks of bad nights (from going to bed easily at 7.30pm and sleeping through until 7am). She would be up every couple of hours asking for water or a wee - don't think she really needed either, it was just the reasons she could come up with at the time! For the past week or so she's been back to normal, thankfully, so I'm guessing it's just a stage that you have to power through and then it will pass.

Bloody grim at the time though

It's been going on for nearly 2 weeks now. Last night he was up 4 times!!! Hasn't done that in well over a year so I was a little traumatised lol.

Do you always go in to yours? I've never ignored him but I'm wondering if it's just for attention? Mamma needs her sleep!

I did go in, as honestly I'd rather have spent a minute comforting her than letting her cry for ages and possibly it then being harder for her (and us) to settle back to sleep.

If it's only been happening for two weeks (although I'm sure it feels like a looooong two weeks!) I reckon you just try to power through - quietly and calmly comfort him and settle him back to sleep and hopefully it will pass. It could well be just for attention but that's still a need of sorts, so my logic was, give DD what she needs and she'll be happy and secure and things will go back to normal after this blip.