DD (2 years old) has never been a great sleeper and we've struggled with various sleeping issues since day 1 (literally, I was pacing the floors of the hospital with a screaming 24 hour old newborn whilst struggling to heal from a c/s). But with using happiest baby and BW techniques, we've managed to get through the issues, with some good weeks and some bad weeks/months. But for the most part almost every night we've had some sort of NW, at least once a night.
Until a month ago, she was getting a bottle of milk to put her back to sleep. For most nights she'd jut wake up the once and then go back to sleep straight after and we felt we could cope. But then the nw's got more frequent so a month ago we said that she was a big girl now she was 2 and big girls don't have bottles and if she woke up in the night she'd get water. She groaned at the idea, but has accepted it with little resistance. We switched her night night milk to night night water and she goes to bed fine with it.
But she still wakes up at least once a night. We give her the water and an extra blanket if she complains she's cold, or teething gel if she complains her mouth hurts. but I would have expected that to be the exception, not the rule and for her to be sleeping solidly. Granted her NW never usually lasts more than 5-10 mins but DS is still a difficut sleeper and o we're actually getting up frequently in the night.
If this is normal and to expect her to ask for water etc once in the night then fine, otherwise, is there anything else I can do about this?
BTW she's still in a cot and she still has 1 nap (1.5 - 2 hrs from 1pm ish)
