DS1 is 3.9 years old. He has always woken up very early, but used to sleep through the night.
For the past month or so, he is waking up during the night crying and wanting to be with us. We didn't want to encourage it,so we always put him back in his bed and waited until he went back to sleep. I also tried ignoring.
A couple of weeks ago, I was trying to ignore him and see if he went back, but he actually threw up. I felt awful as he was obviously not feeling well. So I cleaned the floor and took him to bed with us because he was sick.
Since then, he wakes up every night and he screams, if we don't take him to bed with us, he makes himself sick, so I have no choice but to take him to our bed.
We are so tired, do you have any suggestions? Please...
Oh, just wanted to add, that he has a general delay in his development (neurological problems), his speech is very delayed and so it is difficult for me to discuss his feelings with him.