My 2 Year Old Is Waking up Again

hello J.,
thinking that the memory of fireworks could be a small problem. she is so young though there's another idea for the waking up, find out what her dreams are if she can tell you.
also something that won't keep her awake but try letting her sleep with light soothing music like putting a radio on with your regular station playing low volume. sometimes kids just need to have a noise in the background to help forget the loud ones. more than likely it wasn't the fireworks keeping her up. try the radio for a couple nights and see what happens. best wishes.

we're having the same prob (after we weaned him from the pacifier) and have FINALLY gotten to a point where he's sleeping ok again this week. for a while i went in there-- 4 or 5 times a night!--every time he called because i figured it was just a phase. after a few weeks of that (and being VERY tired) i transitioned to just standing at his door and soothing him by talking to him (he cried a lot at first but got used to it.) after a couple weeks of that, we found this awesome alarm clock for kids online that glows yellow all night like a nightlight then changes to green when they're allowed to wake up. now, even when he wakes up early, we remind him to wait until it turns green and it's working! for three days now he sleeps MUCH better and calls "MOM GREEN YEA!" at 7 a.m. :)

I am going through the same thing w/ my 2yr old daughter.. all of a sudden wants to sleep w/ us and wakes a few times a might if not sleeping w/ us.

My daughter just turned 3 and has been doing this for the past two months. She comes in and asks to get in bed w/ us, go potty, ect. we simply take her back to her room, turn on her music and tell her good night again. She usually makes us go through the bedtime ritual again of saying prayers and singing a song then she lays down and goes back to sleep. I would not let her climb into bed with you or you will be starting a habit that will be VERY hard to break. Although mine is still getting up she knows that she immediately returns to her bed to go back to sleep.

Prehaps a white noise in the back ground will help. Good luck.

could you try a white noise machine? my 22mth old sleeps so much better when ocean sounds are going in the background..

good luck...congrats w/ #2!