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My 2 year old daughter has always been a great sleeper ( she sleeps in her own crib in her own room). But lately she has started waking up several times a night. Sometimes she is scared becuase a heating vent has caused the drapes to move but other times she just wakes up crying. She has just started being afraid of the dark, so we leave the light on. I don't know how to get her to sleep through the night. Has anyone been through this? Do you have any suggestions? I have a 6 month old child as well and am desprate for some sleep!!
the last molars are probably coming in
get her a night light. try getting her some childrfens tylenol or motrin before she goes to bed. could be getting molars or having growing pains. run something in her room which could produce white noise to block out other noises.
Its a stage. My son will be 3 in May and he goes through this from time to time. We will go weeks without any "episodes" and then we will have weeks where he is up every night somewhere between 2 and 4 AM and there are some nights that one of us ends up spending the remainder of the night in his bed with him.
Most of the time, he just wants a few sips of water or needed to go potty so he needs helps getting his jammies and diaper back on (he wears dia[ers to bed only).
Is your daughter still in a crib? It could be a sign that she's ready for a bed. My son has been in a bed since he was 19 months old (he was climbing out of the crib), but when he wakes up he can just come right into our room to get us. Our "rule" is that if its before 5 AM he goes back into his bed; if its after 5 AM, we generally just pull him into our bed to go back to sleep.
This is so close to the last post I answered, I'm going to copy and paste it.
Children this age get night terrors very often. I never had to deal with getting up and comforting my child in another room, because we've always bed shared and had full nights sleep - even when she went thru the 1.5 years of night terrors.
I'd go soothe her right away, because night terrors are called that because they leave the children paralyzed with fear, sweating and very scared if they wake up fully. Rub her back, hum softly, but don't talk. Give her a night light out of her reach that can illuminate her room, so when she wakes up... the dark doesn't terrorize her even more.
