Hello All! This forum was my saving grace several months ago when I had several sleep issues with our little Cora (now 2y2m). Long story short - we had some troubles with settling down for the night and had multiple NW which I eventually worked through with the help of PUPD. While we've never gotten to perfect, things have been MUCH better. She falls asleep without any trouble for her naps and sleeps anywhere from 1.5-2.5 and sometimes 3 hours. At night she has a little bit of a harder time falling asleep and usually needs me to come back in the room at least once for a lullaby but falls asleep on her own, still.
However, she still pretty consistently wakes up between 3-5am and has trouble falling back asleep on her own. She will call out to me "mommy...where are you?" until I come get her and bring her to bed with me. Once she is in bed with me she will fall right back asleep and sleep until I wake her up in the morning (usually around 8:00).
At first this didn't bother me at all, and I thought if this is what has to happen to get a good nights sleep, then whatever, I'm fine with it. Honestly, most nights I don't mind it for now but I worry that it will continue and become a bad habit and I am feeling that is a bit of a problem that she is technically never really getting a good solid STTN. Also, I wouldn't mind the chance to sleep straight through without waking up to go get her
. I'm wondering what I need to do? I imagine at this point it is more of a habit that needs to be broken.
She is a very bright girl and has some good reasoning skills and seems motivated to sleep in her own bed. We'll even talk about getting a treat if she sleeps all night in her bed, but she'll still wake up between 3-5 and call out to me.
A couple small side notes:
1 - She is still in a crib and still has the same hard mattress (supposed to help prevent SIDS) that we had when she was an infant. I'm wondering if this has anything to do with it as it doesn't seem super comfy to me. Maybe we could get a mattress pad for her?
2 - My husband is currently getting up around 5am every morning to do work in his office which is pretty close to her room. While he is as quiet as he can be, the dogs wake up with him and make noise as well so I think that might be causing her to wake up sometimes. There's not really anything we can do about this as he is working 2 jobs right now (one out of his home office, and a regular 9-5).
Ex: Last night she woke up around 3:00 and I decided I wasn't going to bring her to bed with me so we did a lullaby and potty (she asked for both) and after a few times she was back down in her bed asleep. However, she woke back up around 5:15 (I think because of all of the movement and commotion outside her door)
Let me know what you think! Thanks
