2 year old suddenly waking about 10 times every night!!

[Ozziehoffy]

I think it's to do with dreaming... Oskar does it sometimes too and says or asks for the strangest things! Their minds keep going and I think they find it hard to settle, much the same as we do at times.

Re: milk and honey.. if you do this, make sure she brushes her teeth before going to sleep! We used to give Oskar milk before bed but after brushing and he's got some decay (which has luckily arrested and stopped) which we think is from doing that... it's cos there's natural sugars in milk. So if you add honey to the mix, you're doubling that risk. Just FYI

Scary spray is just water In a spray bottle (which you can decorate or mark) to "scare away anything bad"

[[M]umma[M]ia]

Soo far so good tonight. Though she didnt go to bed until 10pm as we were out. But I gave her a good massage and put her eczema cream all over her (just incase the heat is making her itchy etc) and gave her some warm milk (no honey though, i dont really like that idea! lol) and did make sure she brushed her teeth before bed I talked to her lots today about it and told her that she doesnt need to cry when she wakes up (i really dont like to hear her cry ) and she can just call out to mummy and I will come. Also talked to her about her teddies and if shes sad then she can give them a cuddle and they will make her feel better etc. We put her safety gate on her door today and will leave the aircon on tonight to try and keep her room abit cooler to see if its the heat keeping her awake. Also took off her mattress protector and put on cooler bedding. When i got into bed with her lastnight, i did notice it was really warm in her bed because of the mattress protector. Sooooo we will see how we go.

Im off to bed as its almost 1am and I really need some sort of sleep tonight. DF said he will get up to her in the morning though so I can sleep in cant wait!

Thanks so much for your replies!!!

PS. Scary spray.... what a good idea. I think shes a lil young for it yet and wouldnt grasp the whole concept, but I will keep it in mind, thanks

[studymum]

I found DD2 became really upset at nights when her last set of molers were coming through, she got them rather early at 21 months. Since then we have also had times where she would have bad dreams, I found I would actually have to sit her up, wake her up properly and get her to look at me and talk, calm her down and put her back to bed. Sometimes even raising my voice to get her in trouble. It seemed like she was still partly asleep and couldn't break herself out of the dream routine and would continue to wake up for hours. It pretty much did the job if she continued and wouldnt calm, now if she wakes I go through this and she is asleep fine again.

She does tell me some really funky stuff though, one night at 2am she was determined she was getting up for breakfast because I had told her that after breakfast the next day we would be visiting nana. It took me awhile to wake her properly and convince her it was still dark