We just transitioned our 2 year old daughter to a big girl bed. After we finally manage to get her to sleep she does fine sleeping there (it's been a week and she hasn't rolled out) Every morning between 3:00-4:00am she wakes up and comes into our room wanting in bed with us. If I bring her up she goes RIGHT back to sleep but if I try to put her back in her bed she starts throwing a fit, fully wakes herself up and then won't go back to sleep at all. So what I've been doing is bringing her into our bed, waiting 10 minutes and then carrying her back to her bed, sleeping. What I want to know is what is causing her to wake up at the same time every morning and what can we do to prevent it? Or is it just a phase? She probably did this when she was in her crib as well but couldn't get up.
My 3 year old daughter used to do this. It lasted for a few months. Now she still sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night, but she calls for me to come into her room, she doesn't even want to be in our bed anymore. In my opinion it was fine that she was coming into our bed in the middle of the night as long as she wasn't starting out there. I think it is just a phase and she will outgrow it.
If you let her do it, she will keep doing it. I believe my pediatrition gave me that advise when my 2nd one started doing that. Now I have an almost 6 yr. old (#3) who slept with us for 2 yrs. Bad idea.. I have found that 2 days of protest bringing her back to her bed and her being a little more tired was better than getting her in the habit of going to sleep in moms room and waking up somewhere else. I also learned that letting her sleep in our room when she would come in at 2 am was not teaching her good sleep habits.
Maybe it is a wet diaper issue. Her wet diaper may be waking her up...and while she's awake she recalls the warmth of mommy's bed and just wants the closeness. Assuming you go to bed at night later than your 2 year-old, perhaps the solution is to set her on the kiddie potty so she can go, and then set her back in her bed with a fresh diaper or put the old dry one back on. Then again I don't know where your daughter's interest is in regards to the potty so this may not be helpful after all. Maybe some white noise would help. Perhaps she is getting molars and they are so painful they wake her up. Good luck!
My almost three year old started to climb in our bed in the middle of the night when he got his big boy bed. This lasted for several months and he has now pretty much weaned himself off of coming into our bed. We went threw the same struggles of fighting with him and then being awake and decided it just wasn't worth it, that he would grow out of it. They aren't little for long and it is nice once in a while to wake up and see their precious little face sleeping so peacfully. Congrats on the new little one coming.
