It isnt really that bad but my DD who is two in one month has been night waking for a while now. She used to sleep through no problem.

I can settle her by either sitting on her floor or it is quicker if I jump into bed with her for a few minutes and then I go back to my bed.

I was reading another topic and a few people were saying that in that age bracket (2 & 3) that the night waking started and was often accompanied with the tantrums in the day. She will do some tantrums but isnt that bad (yet).

We are going through the whole "no" phase and not listening (sometimes). I must say she is pretty good but has started to run away from me when I ask her to come.

Is it just an age thing. We thought she might be getting cold in the big bed because she cant pull the covers up. We put her in a sleeping bag again and she still wakes. My friends daughters have been doing it sometimes too and they are the same age.

Is this happening to other people to and do you just ride it out or is there something I can do to help her sleep through again?

I have a nearly 6 month old and he has just started sleeping through (most nights) and now I am up with my toddler.

I also have to sit with her to go to sleep. I sit near her door. This has been ever since we moved her to a bed. At night it can take like 30 minutes for her to go to sleep. She isnt crying or anything she just talks away and then uses delay tactics like "drink mummy" "sheet on mummy" "dummy gone mummy". It is quite funny but I am getting sick of sitting there for so long. Should I just appreciate that it is not worse and go with it. I guess she could be screaming every night and day when I try to put her to sleep.

We are also toilet training. I am not pushing it though when she is ready she will be ready. We just wear knickers sometimes and use the toilet when she asks.

As I write this I realise it really isnt that bad but if anyone has any stories of how their two year olds were I would like to hear them.

My little man is 2 years 3 months and from what you describe it is all really normal. Well, normal in relation to my house!

The sleeping issue - We only moved my son into a big bed a a couple of weeks ago, so we have had our own set of dramas with that. We have managed to master the getting him to bed, and he is great through the night until 3am and then he is up and down and in our room and back to bed until 5.30am when I give up and we get up. That sets up the day for tantrums and terrible behaviour because he is tired, and probably my reactions to his tantrums are not the best because I am also tired. We have tried a whole host of things to try and encourage the sleep through but nothing is successful. One of my mother groups friends has said that they slowly moved their sons bedtime from 7pm to 8.30pm and now he sleeps through till 6.30am. I am reluctant to try this though as I like my evenings toddler free! I will be watching to see whether any of the other Mums have more suggestions.

The "no" and running away issue - YEP, he is doing both of those things too.

We haven't started toilet training so can't add any avice there.

Probably not much help, but perhaps it is nice to know you are not the only mother of a toddler up at all hours!

We have had the waking up at night issue for a few months now. My DD is 2 and 8mths, she moved into a big bed at about 18mths as she climbed out of the cot.

When she wakes up in the middle of the night she tends to start crying. First I tried a night-light but after 2 nights she was upset about it being turned on. She used to have her bedroom door closed, but for about a month now she has been asking to leave it open and we don't seem to get the same problem. She wakes up, see where she is and goes back to sleep. There are still times where we get some crying but I think this may be due to bad dreams.

I am lucky though, if she cries, I walk in give her a cuddle, lay her down then walk out. I have never stayed in the room while she goes to sleep. I had a big battle with that one at about 7mths and am lucky enough to have not had to worry about that one since.

Bad behaviour normally follows the disturbed night in our house. Although the last few weeks have been challenging and nights have been ok.

It could be molars or weeing while asleep that is waking her up (with the toilet training perhaps she's becoming aware of needing to pee while asleep and its enough to wake her up). Or it could be nightmares or vivid dreams - around now I think is when they start to really dream. You start seeing a lot of imaginative play during the day and dreams during the night.

We had the same problems when DS turned two. DD had just been born so that was a part of the problem.

But he was also cutting 2yr molars and had just learnt to be afraid of things. We went to see fireworks and the jets flew over - it was the first time he'd been scared in his life and all of a sudden he started getting nightmares about planes, scary dogs, not being able to find mummy.

We also started toilet training about then and I noticed that if I checked on him not long before he usually started to wake up his nappy was dry, but when he was awake crying the nappy was wet. So I think toilet training increased his awareness of when he needed to wee enough that when it happened while he was asleep it was enough to make him wake up.

We had 3mths that were really bad. We ended up just putting him in bed with DH (the heavy sleeper who can handle a toddler next to him!) and I would sleep in DS's bed. After 3mths it started to get better, provided there wasn't a molar coming through. After 6mths he was still ending up in our bed quite often. It seemed to be a habit now, wanting to be in with dad, rather than something he needed to do. We ended up buying bunk beds for his room (DD will have one when bigger) and if he woke up one of us would sleep in the other bed. Worked a treat. He had new exciting beds, we could be in room with him and it broke the needing us to be in bed with him cycle. Within a week he was back sleeping in his own bed the whole night long and rarely waking up.

Not sure what to suggest for you to do. Maybe ride it out for a few weeks, if its continuing maybe try something new for her bed - new doona, new teddy. Make a big deal of it. In the meantime I definitely recommend doing anything you can to get through it. With a 6mth old you need the sleep. An extra bed in DS's room was the best decision we ever made. He's happy because he knows if he needs us we can come in with him, even without us there he doesn't feel alone anymore. And we can get a good night sleep if we do end up there

I too, was going to suggest molars cutting. DD is a great sleeper but cutting molars and eye teeth certainly disturbed her sleep. All 4 molars have now cut and she is back to sleeping until 6:45/7am - thank goodness!
We have moved bedtime from 7pm until 7:30 - (unless she is super tired and it is 7 then). She gets full of beans around 6:30 and we settle down by reading stories etc together. DD is another who now likes the door open (started when she got sick a few weeks ago). We leave it open just a jar with only a very dim yellow night light in room. We have found if it is pretty dark, she doesn't play much and goes off to sleep a lot quicker.
I do believe that children are dreaming a lot more now - DD woke the other morning at 5:30am crying really hard saying Big doggy barking! There were no dogs barking so I am assuming it was a dream.
As for sitting outside room, we have never done that, so the only thing I could suggest would be to sit for 5 mins, and then leave and say i will be back in 5 mins to check on you. Then leave it 10 etc. Always come back though so they know you are telling the truth. You can slowly extend as they become more used to it.

Goodluck!!