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By andrewsmum
22 November 2007 11:23
My 2.5 year old son has been waking in the night for about 1 month now. I’ve tried everything to get him to stay in his room and go back to sleep. Any ideas?
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bebe says
My daughter is much the same. I had been going dsown at least once a night to find nothing was actually wrong, she just wanted me. But at 5 months pregnant I also need my sleep and it was getting beyond a joke. Once I was totally confident that she didn't really need anything I made a rash decision and bought ear plugs. they dont block out all the noise, so if she really is upset I still hear it and can do something about it. But if she is just shouting out then I can sleep through it. I know it sounds harsh but I need sleep and I also feel that at 2 and a bit she needs to break bad habits like that and learn to settle herself and realise that mummy is always there when she really does need me. Its taken a bit, and I know that if I type what I'm about to, she'll no doubt wake tonight to spite me (lol!) but within two days she dropped one of her shouting sessions and now sleeps right the way thru most nights, and if she does wake, she settles again very quickly. I've stopped using the earplugs now...I know it sounds drastic, and wouldn't even have thought about doing it, had she been ill or genuinely upset...but when someone lays in bed telling you they have bogeys for over and hour night after night, or that they want their toothbrush....you soon decide that sleep needs to reign once and for all! Good luck. I hope we both get a full nights sleep tonight x
26 November 2007 19:36
Gema24 says
Hi andrewsmum i had the same problem with my son at that age he would wake in the middul of the night and get into my bed then i would have to wate till he fell asleep to put him back in his bed this went on for some time and started to get me down so i thought enough is enough so i sat him down and told him he was gettin a big boy now and it was time he stayed in his own bed i told him if he stayed in his bed all night i would give him a sticker to put on a sticker chart and if he got 4 or more stickers he would get a treat so we sat down together and made the chart our selfs went out and bought some stickers and now he sleeps through the night and has done for the past 3 years and by the way treats dont have to cost money it can be anything like goin to the park and feeding the ducks to reading an extra long book together hope this helps from Gema24
22 November 2007 22:31
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