jealous? sorry bit long!

Ok well our daughter is almost 3 and when we had bub we were always worried she would be very jealous, but we ahd no problems whatsover. We always include her in everythingto do with him and she never feels left out, but the past week she has totally changed. She is waking up more than him during the night, DP can't console her, she screams the house down for me instead. This morning she was up at 2am crying again telling me she had to go to poo, I was out there for literally over an hour with her and she didn't do a thing. She just says it to get out her room and when I told her to go to sleep she screamed again. She now doesn't ever want to go to sleep, I just don't know what to do. We tried giving her a bottle before bed again, thinking maybe it would help and kept her up for an extra hour and a half thinking maybe she wasn't tired. Is this just jealousy (that obviously just set in) and trying to get our attention, if it is, how do we fix it?! :wall: I feel l.ike we have tried everything possible, I'm just hopng she will grow out of it. Any help fo me?

Renee, Jack's a little younger than your dd but every now and then he'll go through a stage of waking in the night and only going back to sleep in our bed. I don't think it's jealousy. I am not sure if it's nightmares, or just adjusting to something new in his life, but it never lasts long. I hope this is the case for you too and it's just a phase. Some people might disagree but I think spending time with them and making them comfortable will solve the problem more quickly than leaving them upset, so you sound like you are doing everything right. GL!

At 3 I noticed with the girls they started having night terrors. We used night lights/lamps and often they would jump into bed with me. We also started using a monster spray to prevent any monsters from coming in the house (just coloured water in a spray bottle with lavender).

Jo

Yep I was thinking maybe she is having nightmares too...

thanks for that, the day i posted she hasn waking up at sometimes round 11pm crying for me and manages to go back to sleep but every morning from bout 3am she hasn't stopped crying and comes into our bed and sleeps. She always wants the door open and told us there was a pink spot on the ceiling and she though it was a scary face so we bought spme glow in the dark star stickers to cover it abnd take the attnetion off which worked but still at 5am thismorning she jumped into bed with me again. Hopefully it doesn't go on much longer, I am just worried she is now going to get used to the idea of sleeping in our bed. Thanks for your advice! :)