Hi,

My DD is 2 and has slept through the night since she was a baby (very lucky!). However, recently she has been waking up during the night once or twice (usually around 12 midnight and maybe again at 3am). She'll wake up crying, so I go in there, give her a cuddle for a min or so and then she goes back to bed. She calms down and goes back to sleep almost as soon as I pick her up and reassure her. Has anyone else experienced this? Do anyone have any ideas as to why she might be waking up crying? It's never any trouble to get her to go back to sleep, just a quick hug

Anni

It seems to be something that happens around this age. Sadly after almost a year of it we have resorted to sleeping in her room. I look forward to your replies...

At this age they start to have nightmares.

Does she have a night light? If not try it to see if it makes a difference.

My son didn't like sleeping with the door closed so we leave the door ajar and this has helped.

wca, I could have wrote the exact same thing as you. It has not happened for the last two nights, since I have put him in a sleep suit, so I wonder if he was cold, but then again when he did wake up crying and wanting kisses and cuddles and his dummy and elmo in the cot, he would get upset again once he laid down and i tried to put on the blankets. Oh so confusing .... I have also found that it is more likely to happen on nights where he has not had a day sleep.

I completely empathise with you. My 2yr old DS has been waking up some nights for the past month or two (normally a good overnight sleeper). I have tried lots of things to see what's wrong (light, door open, more layers to sleep, telling him his toy dog scares away bad monsters...) but have decided that it's another phase of development. He seems to wake and just needs a bit of comfort to settle (but this can vary from a quick cuddle, to me sitting in the room to sleep).