It's normal for babies and children to wake every few hours in the night and it's one of the reasons I've coslept with both of mine. Even if we wake we don't stay awake long and no one has to get up, go into another room and wait to calm a child down. If you read some information about how babies sleep, it is utterly normal, natural and healthy for them to wake. They sleep longer as they get older. My three and a half year old still wakes at night from time to time. He didn't "sleep through" (which is actually five hours in a row, btw, not all night) until he was well over two. That's ok They can't do what their brains aren't equipped for so making it as easy as possible to respond and recognising that night waking is normal goes a long way towards relieving any stress caused by it. Pinky McKay, Anni Gethin and Beth MacGregor, Dr Sears, Dr Sarah Buckley, Dr James McKenna all parents, all authors, all agree, night waking is normal. They won't be twelve and still waking you up, this time is only a little time in our lives.