Not usually. I was still up with the twins nightly until they were about 4 but now they all tend to sleep through apart from when they are ill. I don't allow them in my bed though so they have no real reason to come in to my bedroom unless there is a nightmare or illness.
DD 3.5 - rarely - if she can't find her water or needs the toilet (she has just moved to top bunk and I don't want her getting down on her own in the night yet). She sleep talks alot I know because now am often in their room tending to DS - but she seems rarely to actually wake herself up properly.
DD1 (almost 4) sleeps all night most of the time and doesn't usually need to get up for the toilet. A couple of nights a week she might wake and come into our bed but I usually don't even notice until the morning. Or sometimes she is woken by DD2 who is in the same room.
DD2 mostly sleeps through now as well. She might wake 3 times a week but will just get in bed with us for a cuddle and go back to sleep.
I would if needed but since she started sleeping through (2yrs 9mo) she rarely needs tending to. When she first night trained, we left a potty in her room so she didnt need to navigate to the bathroom but now (3yrs 11mo) she is fine to get to the bathroom alone although we are talking maybe once every three weeks that she needs to and we only find out in the morning lol. She hasnt woken yet to a bad dream and once woken feeling sick.
She coslept in our bed till 2 and then our room till she slept through. Im actually really surprised she has never wanted back in, not even now DD2 has been in with us. She was as a baby/toddler a frequent night waker and fed to sleep till weaning (3yrs 3mo) but has never really had sleep issues in that she never faught sleep or was much trouble to get to sleep.
DD 5 usually comes into bed with us after midnight, sometimes she cries due to a bad dream or occassionally she falls out of bed and wakes crying so I tend to her. She takes herself to the toilet but won't get a drink of water herself, she wakes me for that.
If my kids need me I'm up and there....regardless of how many times or how old. Bad dreams, storms and things that go bump in the night don't care how old you are!
DS2 is almost 3 and after listening to his rendition of an Aria in the wee hours this morning I went in to him but most times he will come in to us. I usually just give him a drink of water, a trip to the toilet and back to bed.
DS1 is almost 18.....we don't have to get up to him anymore....
You were RAK'ed in 2015.
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