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Sleep advice for a 2.5 year old needed

The 2 year molars caused a pretty major sleep issue for dd over the past couple months,  but they appear to be completely in now and we're still having sleep problems.  Dd wakes up 2-4 times a night crying.  I try to keep contact to a minimum at these moments.  Lay her back down and turn the mobile/projector thing on.  Is there something else going on at this age?  Is this when fear of the dark starts? 

I feel like I have a baby in the house again. You always hear about babies not sleeping and reasons why, but I never hear of toddlers having sleeping problems.  The teeth are in, she's not sick and she still has the dang binky.  What could be the problem?  I would also like to get rid of the binky soon but I don't want to do it if she's going through something.  I feel that will only make matters worse.  Our first attempt went horrible because of teething.

 

Re: Sleep advice for a 2.5 year old needed

  • bad dreams? I think that was when it started for EJ. And she slept poorly around that age too.  It isn't just your DD. I was just more apt to allow her to sleep the rest of the night in our room because she would walk in and get us rather than cry

  • I'd say toddlers with sleep disturbances are more the norm than those who consistently sleep through the night.  So your daughter is definitely not the odd one out!  If she's waking at night and she uses her binky for self-soothing, I'd say n

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  • DD had a period like that. I know that she was 2 1/2 because Todd was a baby. No fun but not abnormal. She was easy at bedtime and hard overnight. Todd was the opposite. I think it doesn't get talked about as much because it is annoying and because par

    Heather Margaret --- Feb '07 and Todd Eldon --- April '09

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  • Thanks everybody.  I guess I'll just keep doing what I'm doing and wait it out.  It does make me feel a little better to know it might just be a developmental thing piggybacking a teething thing.  In the meantime, I should probably add s

     
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