2 year old starting waking in night again

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Hi,
my daughter has always slept fairly well and slept through from quite an early age however the past few weeks she has started waking in the night again and not going back to sleep till we either lay next to her in her bed or take her to ours. I thought it was due to her trying to find dummy in night but i’m really not sure, just need to tackle it as I also work shift work and feel Absolutely exhausted. Any tips appreciated x

Do you all go back to sleep if you bring her in with you? I'd do that if so.

Or can you get her a bigger bed for her room so one of you can join her without being squashed? It probably won't be every night and it won't be forever.

We got my DD a groclock at this age which solved all night wakings and still works like a charm. If you enforce it consistently and see it as a kind of structured sleep training device then it will work, but there may be some tears when you first introduce it, so it depends on what you are comfortable with. I felt as DD was older and able to understand she wasn't being 'abandoned' but simply expected to stay in her room during nightime hours (which is not an unreasonable ask of a 2+ year old), I could tolerate the brief period of upset caused at the start. Basically you set the wake up time and any wakings before that get a clear and consistent response that it's sleepy time, quick hug and then leave the room. Rinse and repeat until they understand you won't be budging and the clock is king