5 yr old dd making moaning noises in sleep

[Wildtrekkeruk]

My 5 year old dd is moaning out in her sleep from about an hour after she has gone to bed throughout the night. We don't think she knows she is doing it and try and wake her up a bit but she gets moody and shakes us off. It then starts all over again 30 mins later. She has never been the best sleeper, but has not been like this before. She shares a room with our dd2 (2.5 yrs sleeping through) and have started to put her bed in our room so she doesn't wake dd2. When she is in our room, the moaning doesn't happen so often.
Has anyone else experienced this, and any ideas please??

Not entirely the same but my 4 year old ds cries out / shouts in his sleep, and on a bad night can be all through the night every hour or so.Sometimes he sounds really distressed but is not really awake and similarly to your dd if we try and wake him he gets really stroppy. Sometimes it works if we lift him out of bed and take him to the loo to do a wee but sometimes he won't do this and gets more upset if we lift him out (even to cuddle him). It's kind of night terrors I think (although all the stuff I've read about night terrors seem to describe just one incident in a night, not continuous) Does your dd remember anything the next day? Our ds never seems to be more tired or remember anything (just us who are knackered from getting up through the night to him!! ) Apparently if it is night terrors they do grow out of it eventually...

If it helps at all both DD's have inherited my tendency to talk in my sleep when overtired.
They will mumble and mutter and every so often you hear a nice clear phrase (DD1's latest was 'my hair is wobbly', DD2's 'I'm flying')
If they have slept well then they don't do it so often. I don't bother waking them even when DD1 has arguments in ehr sleep and is shouting as it just confuses them. I know what it is like to be woken in the middle of a 'talking' dream and it is really disorientating.

Does she sound distressed or could she just be a 'noisy' sleeper?

@ Freddiemed, no, our DD never really remembers in the morning either, just us.