My 2 year old gets up every morning at 5:30AM.

Wow, I know exactly how you feel. My daughter used to keep me up all the time at night. Now she wakes up nightly at 2am and just sits there crying. Why I don't know, it started not long ago. How about trying to turn on a humidifier- the white noise from the machine usually allows a child to sleep much better. My daughter has allergies so the humidifier helps her sleep better plus the white noise from the machine also helps her sleep deeper. The train, maybe you can move farther away from the train. Or if you don't want to move, try watching train movies with her. And try taking a trip and ride the train. THis will let her know the train makes loud noises but won't hurt her. Good luck and I hope you can sleep better soon.

That's a tough one. Looks like you have an early riser on your hand. If she only takes one nap a day, which at her age should only about 1 1/2 hours, and she still does this, you may have to consider moving. I know the train used to wake me up all the time, when we lived near the tracks. She seems to be a light sleeper like me and has trouble going back to sleep. First thing should be to stop taking her into bed with you. Explain, what the noise is all about, there is nothing to fear, and she should just turn over and go back to sleep. I think your paying attention to her waking up like this brought on the problem in the first place. She hasn't learned to go back to sleep by herself, when she wakes up. And sometimes you just need to let them cry it out. I know, it's hard not to pay attention, but at this age, she should know how to go back to sleep by herself. A little tough love is in order now. Why can't you shut the door just because she is in the same room with her older sister? That is no reason for us to keep the door open. They won't kill each other, lol. If you have doubts, maybe you should temporarily reassign sleeping arrangements and have her sleep in a room by herself until she is trained to sleep through the night. Don't let the kid control you, you control the child!

It appears that your doing just about every thing that you can o get her to sleep. Some kids are just early risers. Living beside a rail road track has got to be difficult with the noise. I suggest that you try what is called white noise. I have a small 10 inch fan that make a humming noise to keep out the sounds of traffic on the street and the barking of neigh hood dogs. This might shut out the noise of the trains. This might let her sleep through the night it also might let her sleep latter in the morning too. You should be able to get one for about $15 or less at Wal-mart

I suggest making your two year old daughter really tired before she goes to sleep. How about buying her a small trampoline? Then she could bounce away for ages in the evening getting really tired. Get blackout curtains for her room then she won't wake when she sees daylight. Ask you daughters to stay really quiet until the alarm clock goes off at a convenient time for you to get up, perhaps 7am. If your 2 year old daughter sleeps in reward her with something pleasant like a fun sing song. If she wakes up at 5.30 care for her but stay silent, you should only begin speaking at 7am. Then she should soon get the message. Good luck.

I know how you must be feeling because i had the same problem with my daughter not after she was 2 years, but right from birth, she never slept at night...and after she was a year old, that became even worse, she wouldnt let us sleep, like you said, she was a healthy child too...but we had a lot of trouble making her go abck to sleep once she wakes in the early morning, but then it gradually decreased after she was 2 years and now she is 3 and now, she very ocasionally does that about once in a month or so...so, i think the habit would change itself and we need not do anything special to change them

Maybe you could put her to bed a little later, maybe at 10 or 10:30 and this may mean that you get an hour more in bed making it 6:30AM. Also maybe before bed play games with her to make her more tired and this will hopefully make her sleep longer.

Music, a movie, or white noise are my only suggestions. I have two-year-old nephew who can be hard to deal with at times, but I just pop in a video and the kid goes to sleep. Sometimes it takes a while, but as long as he goes to sleep and sleeps for the whole night, I am not going to complain. Your daughter has older sisters, and remember that your other daugthers might be a big influence on her behavior. Younger children, sometimes, tend to grow up faster than the older children because they are always trying to catch up to them. She could be seeing things or having night terrors too that she is not telling you about. You never know.

Wow.. that must be very frustrating! If the trains are waking her up, how about playing soothing music for her when she is sleeping to drown out the noise? I was also going to say keep her up later, but I can see that you are already doing that. Maybe if you put a sippy cup next to her bed and tell her that if she wakes up she can get herself a drink and then she needs to go back to sleep. Tell her if she goes back to sleep without waking anyone else up you will reward her. You could make a chart and put stickers on for the night she sleeps all night. After one week, take her to the dollar store and let her pick a prize. Sometimes bribery works well.

My daughter goes through different seeping patterns over the months and I have to adapt to it. There are times when she wakes up at 6.30am and I think that that is already early enough. Last month she slept at 10pm and wakes up at 7am. Has your daughter been doing this for a long time or is it just a phase, you think? You said she went back to sleep at 7am. What time does she wake up after that? So she takes 2 naps in the day, I presume? If that's the case, maybe you can cut it down to 1 nap, then she'll sleep longer at night. We live near the train tracks too, but my daughter is oblivious to it already. But if it is very close to the time she needs to wake, she will open her eyes wide and won't sleep anymore. I will curse at the trains for that, especially when they honk loudly just when they pass our place One other thing is that my daughter sleeps with me. Maybe your daughter still wants to stay close to you and wakes you up for attention.

We had the same experienced before when my son is only two years old. Thankfully it only last for two months then his sleeping habits change. Now I can sleep peacefully the whole evening.

From my experiences it matters not keeping your child up later, they still wake at the same time. Take turns with your husband to wake before 5am, change your daughters diaper, give her a bottle of cooled boiled water, and keep at it until you feel there is improvement. I found that if you change the child while it sleeps or is half awake, they tend to settle quickly feeling comfortable again.