3 year old just lays awake at all hours!?

[AmberM223]

My 3 year old LB has previously been a good sleeper - as in down for bed sleeps all night. For the last good few months, he has started just laying awake at all hours of the night? I wake up to feed our baby (baby isn’t waking him as he actually doesn’t really cry in the night and we are 1 floor above LB) and i check on his monitor, he’s always awake? Just laid there wide awake at 1/2/3/4am??? i find it impossible to go back to sleep so i just lay awake watching him laid there wide awake?! He then does usually fall back asleep 5ish and will get up about 6.30/7! he’s extremely whiny ALL of the time, so cranky, cry’s at anything and i do feel this is why. I have absolutely no idea what to do? He has a consistent bedtime of bath/book bed, sleeps with white noise on, nightlight as he doesn’t like the dark. I don’t really go down to tell him to sleep as i find that wakes him even more engaging in conversation with him. Any ideas!?

Just to add to this too, he’s not up shouting me, doesn’t want anything he literally just lays there awake or i see him messing with his raggy. He has a potty in his room which he will get up and go on if he needs a wee so can’t be that!

How old is the baby? Maybe it’s all the change and just temporary. My three year old was sleeping through until his brother was born 9 months ago and he hasn’t slept through since. He is a bit scared of the dark though so comes out of his room to get us. In the beginning he was definitely not getting good quality sleep though, even with us there with him

I totally understand why you are worried though.

@Babyenroute baby is 5m old now! We touch would have had no issues at all with him and baby, he’s just so in love he’s never been jealous/ put out so i just can’t imagine it? unless it hits him in bed at night! he’s got amazing communication so i would have thought he would have said something. He’s absolutely fine just being in his room, just doesn’t want to sleep? i’m so baffled by it! It is such a worry isn’t it, like we know how important sleep is, especially when he’s at pre-school learning everyday😭