Night waking toddler - please advise me!

[LilRedWG]

DD is 28 months and has always been a great sleeper, however the past few months she has started waking and crying for us a couple of times a night. She is usually pretty easy to settle back down, but I'd still rather she wasn't doing it as it takes us longer to get back to sleep.

She has a growbag, so is not cold, but sometimes has dropped her dummy out of the cot (she has a spare under the pillow, but wants the original one ) or her bunny. More often than not though, she just wants a cuddle and to know we are there.

Any advice - is it a stage? Will she grow out of it?

Thank you.

A friend recommended moving her to a bed, but I don't understand how this would help us. Surely, she'd just get out of bed and come in to us.

I would get her a bed, makes a world of difference. Maybe she just needs to know that she could come in with you. She probably feels trapped in a crib, I know I would.

I might be wrong here but I am not convinced these grobags are warm enough. I have been using one on DS (3 months) and he woke last night shivering!

I am in Scotland though and the last couple of nights have been really cold but the room temperature was 18 so he should have been ok. I stuck a blanket on top of his grobag.

if anything she usually wakes up too warm - she's in PJs and a 2.5tog growbag in the blamy Midlands.

So, you really think moving to a bed may help? Scary thought.

balmy

hopeful bump for miracle cure

no miracle cure to offer, sorry! DS is 2.5 and wakes up about one night in three. Same thing, he normally just needs a cuddle. I put it down to having proper dreams now and occasionally just needing some reassurance, so we haven't really tried to do anything about it, as there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it.

Hi, DS is 19m and has been a good sleeper for ages (after a nightmare start) but lately has woken in the night quite a few times, sometimes it's teeth but sometimes he just wants his giraffe or a quick pat, at 4.30am this morning he was demanding kisses -- cute but wearying!

she is having either nightmares or night terrors, which are normal at this stage, so she just needs a cuddle and reassurance and should go back to sleep

my daughter has theses night terrors when she is really over tired or ill , ( eg high temp ect ) mainly when she is overtired , is now 8 and has grown out of them a bit , although i know when she may have one , when shes had such busy time and tired , she just needed cuddles and reasurance , went to see a specialist who advised not to wake her , and not turn on the lights , just calmly coax her back to sleep and to talk calmly and gently reasuring her that mummy was here , seemed to do the job .
hope that helps , good luck .

Thanks guys. Poor DD.

Ches - DD is now in her bed. Here's hoping that it helps.

I read that thread. Hope it went well.

Yippee! She slept straight through last night. Not a peep!

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