Don't know how to get my 2yo to sleep through - any advice please?

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my dd, just turned 2, used to be a reasonable sleeper. she has always been an early waker but goes off to sleep fine on her own so we accept 6.am wake-ups. for the last month or so, she has been waking in the night, anytime between 11.30 and 3 and shouting out. we have tried a night light,lying her back down without speaking, cuddle and 'go back to sleep, teddy is with you', etc etc. once or twice i have resorted to sitting by her cot till she (after a very long time) falls asleep again.
I don;t know what to do. I feel she is just wanting company and part of me wants to leave her to shout, but even with going in to her, these episodes can last around an hour and a half (and she still wakes early!)
I am exhausted, so if anyone can offer any advice, i'd be really grateful.
thanks.

the little bugger is still waking at 11.30 and won't go back to sleep without me. grrr. seems awfully regular for teething.

No advice I'm afraid but empathy. DD is 27months and has always been a brilliant sleeper, but since she turned two has regularly been waking up of a night. Often she settles immediate, but last night took 40 minutes. I think my poor baby is having bad dreams.

I moved DS to a bed and after an unsettled month he has setteld down - our rule is that he must go to sleep in his bed but he can come into min eif he wakes up.

He still wakes up about 1/2 times a week but now he just toddles into my room and gets in. I have got used to it and rarely even stir now! Doesn;t solve her sleep problme but it might solve yours if you don't object to her getting in your bed in the small hours.

lots of sympathy form me - ds has been waking up for well months at least once a night and coming into my bed, what I have started doing thou is leaving the hall light on as other wise as soon as I turn it off I hear 'don't like it monsters.'

last 2 nights he's done till 6.30 am in his bed but today was 5am - not so good, but still better than coming into bed at half 11 or 12!

no idea where he's got monsters from but he says it no matter if he's here or at mums house for the night (both rooms he's well used to)

our bed is a high bed so even I struggle a bit to get into it (21 weeks pregnant now). part of the problem is that when she sleeps with us we both have to be in there to stop her falling out and she sleeps diagonally so we risk falling out. Best thing really is taking her to a cambered sofa and lying on the outside until she is asleep. what a faff though! why do 'good' sleepers suddenly do this? I suppose thats children for you!

(fwiw I did try the putting him back in his own bed which resulted in a 2 hour screaming fit every night - once was so bad I ahd to call mum at half one to take him away from me before I injured him (was that close to the edge thru lack of sleep and his screaming) after that decided what ever way meant we both got sleep we'd go with - and him sleeping is it - but then again think this is gonna back fire as well.