3 Yr Old Not Sleeping Through the Night - Tremonton,UT

If my son is sick and has nose dripping and a cough I usually give him benedryl and this gets him through the night. What time is she going to bed in the evening? Is she taking naps during the day? The waking up early could be a phase. I would get her a daytime/nightime kids clock and tell her she cannot get out of bed until she sees certain numbers or a sun up (there are cute clocks that a sun will show when it is time to get up). Perhaps an evening snack might help her get through the night if she is getting up hungry. Good luck.

My daughter is also three and has never slept great nor through the night. I know we're partly to fault because of the habits we created with her (cosleeping, rocking her to sleep, etc) but she now goes to sleep alone but in the middle of the night, will come into our room and sleep with us. It works for us (but not everyone) and we aren't up all hours trying to get her back to sleep. Eventually she'll go into her own bed but I'm not forcing that now! My son (1) on the other hand has been a great sleeper for the most part and wants to go in his crib and fall asleep on his own and hardly wakes up at night.

I'd say you have a few choices (letting her get into bed with you being my 1st option because it results in more sleep for mama!!), putting a bed on your floor and telling her if she wakes up she can lay in your room on the bed (blankets piled up with a pillow), you could walk her back into her room each time, you could lay with her or you could tell her she cannot come out of her room until X time or when the is a certain time on the clock (I think they have ones for kids her age).

Good luck!!

What time is your daughter going to bed for the night? I have found that the later my son keeps himself awake the earlier he rises...must not be sleeping well I think. But this is rare in our house. Our pediatrician said as long as he's getting close to 12 hours at night he doesn't need a nap during the day and that really did help a lot when it came to night time sleeping.

My son has always been a great sleeper; we've been lucky with this I know. He is almost 4 and right around his 3rd birthday he decided that he would no longer sleep during nap time. He would be up and down and playing in his room, and it made the afternoon a bear until he got used to it. Now we rest; have down time, no playing, laying in our bed, quiet time, etc. every afternoon and that has helped. He typically goes to bed around 8:30pm and sleeps until 9am. Occasionally he will actually sleep during his rest time, but I don't like to let him sleep longer than an hour as this messes with how he sleeps at night.

I hope you can get it figured out...everyone needs a good night's sleep!