Another "my son won't sleep through the night" thread .... only with a difference ....

[ghosty]

Because my son is 5 YEARS OLD!!!!
And he is driving us crazy!

We have good phases but more often than not he wakes up at least once in the night ... "I need a cuddle", "I'm scared", "I'm thirsty", "Is it morning yet?", "When is breakfast time?", "Where's my blanket?", "Where's my pillow?", "Where's Bear?", "I've had a bad dream", "It's too dark", "It's too light" .... you name it ....
At the moment we are doing a sticker chart so that if he wakes up in the morning and it isn't time to get up (he wakes up for good any time from 5am) if he stays and plays in his room without waking everyone else up he gets a sticker ... so that bit is working .... every 7 stickers he gets a treat .... he is working towards going to the cinema with his Dad.

But it is the middle of the night wakings I can't handle ... last night he woke up at 2.04am, 3.17am, 4.35am and then at 5.37am (sorry for the specifics but every time he calls out I look at the clock and feel so much anger and resentment towards him .... So of course this morning he had his breakfast at 6.30 and then got into our bed and went to sleep!!!! I had to wake him at 8am to get him ready for school and he was just knackered.

Added to the fact that DD is teething (she is 1) I was basically up from 2am all night last night with one or other of them ... so I am shattered too ...

What can I do that doesn't involve drugging him????????????????????????????????

G xxx

ghosty, interesting about the cr osteopath. DS went to one when he was newborn for colic, maybe I will think of taking him back. We've had a couple of nights of him waking 3 or 4 times a night followed by 2 nights of him sleeping through.

ghosty, my daughter is 5 and wakes nearly every blooming night and then in turn wakes ds up

last night was horrendous, she was up and down from 12 ish til 4

then at 6 .30 she is on the landing, switching all the lights on>>>>>>>into brother bedroom, puts his light on

I could throttle her sometimes

ghosty, I completely sympathise. Ds (4)gets up in the night every night and is always awake around 5.30. I am hopeful that things will change when he starts school. Will talk to dh about the sticker idea.
Good luck.