Nighttime Problems

Same situation, my son was a good sleeper then he started waking up in the middle of the night, and now he's in our bed. And my daughter is following suite, I feed her so she wakes up anyway, but she has migrated to our bed. Thats the problem. Dont let him migrate to your bed. Try to console him and keep him in his room and bed. Once they come over its hard to break them of the habit. Try giving him a warm bath before bed, and instead of putting him to bed at 7:30 try 8. When does he take his naps? Sometimes if kids nap a lot time during the day they will be too fresh to sleep. My son was doing that. But he didn't nap today lets see if he sleep in his bed tonight.

Have you considered that he might have teeth coming in? It can be really hard for babies to sleep when they are cutting teeth. When the back ones are starting to come in, you might not even know it and those are the most painful. I would suggest trying a couple of things. First of all, if you don't own any Hyland's Homeopathic Teething Tablets, get some. These were a lifesaver when my son was teething at that age. They are completely safe for kids to take and are just little chalky tablets that taste kind of like sweet milk. You just put them under the child's tongue and they dissolve instantly. Really easy and not terribly expensive. You can get them in the pharmacy section at most Wal-mart stores. Sometimes you have to search for them, but I've found that most of them carry them. Now, you say that he seems to be hurt or scared when you go to him. First of all, if it is teething, then he might be a little freaked out by the pain in his mouth and that could explain why he is behaving that way. I would suggest going to him, but not picking him up and not talking to him. You can maybe murmur a couple of reassuring "It's OK"s, but you don't want him to learn that by waking up in the middle of the night, he will get attention from you. Lay him back down in his crib and rub his back or belly, depending on what side he sleeps on. (My son was a tummy sleeper even with the SIDS scares. I have his terrible gas and a baby that was able to flip himself over at 3 days old to thank for that.) You also want to avoid taking him to your bed, as tempting as it may be. You don't want him to learn that waking up in the middle of the night means sleeping with mom and dad, either. From your basic description of the behavior, it really sounds like teething to me. I don't know if he has all of his teeth yet or not, but that was my first thought from reading your question. The only other thing I can think of is nightmares. If that's the case, react in the same way when you come to him in his room and eventually, the nightmares should probably stop. However, I think that it would be very unlikely that he is having multiple nightmares each night for several nights. I would say that that is not typical, which leads me to believe that it's something like teething.

hi michellina...my daughter(elementary years) one time woke up in the middle of the night and went directly to the bathroom to take a bath..well thanks to God that it did not happen again...not really sure of your son though since he is so young at 2 years old to sleep walk at that...did you remember of anything that happen that cause him to do that...maybe he was traumatize or scared on something that during his sleep he still have it..

hi, Im also a mom of a 1-yr old son and I also experiencing that... I also don't know the reason since he can't speak yet.. Maybe he's not comfortable on his position, maybe a bad dream, maybe something hurts on any part of his body, and whatever... So what I do is when he cries during the middle of the night, I just hug him and say "Why baby, don't worry mom is here and I will not leave you." after that he will stop crying and we will go back to sleep together. It actually helps knowing that somebody is on their side and it is very comforting to them that they feel our love for them even in that very simple words and action.

amazing enough my 1yr old started doing this but I've gotten pretty lucky. She has been able to talk pretty well since she was about 10 months old. She wakes up crying and saying more milk or hurts or belly so i know what she needs. My son on the other hand didn't talk till he was two and he started waking up screaming when he was sixteen months come to find out he was having night terrors caused by growing pains and physical changes. Talk about scary when all you can do is give them tylenol and wait it out.

It definately sounds like night terrors. My nephew does the same thing. He will scream and even be standing up but will not respond to anyone. After you shake him a bit and call his name loudly he will wake up and say he had a bad dream and go back to sleep. It was very scary to watch. I thought something terrible was wrong, but after a few times I guess I got used to it.

I think since you know the time he wakes up now maybe youll try to be around him then so when he is about to he feels our hand around him he may sleep back quickly. He will soon stop it i part of things that happens any way. He may be hungry!!!

Could be many reasons. The most logical is bad dreams. I am a mom of 3 boys and my youngest is 6 now and once in a while awakens crying or whining. I used the monster spray method on them when putting them to bed. Its just regular air freshener I would spray into the room at bed time. That helped out alot. Another logical explanation could be growing pains. They are young and do not know how to tell us they hurt or are achy. And usually its periodical in nature so if that is the case then that could be the culprit. I know its difficult when as parents we cannot make everything all better right away but just some extra love and tenderness is all we can do.

Is he very upset like screaming? if so id say night terrors these occur at the same time each night and while distressing to watch at the time they dont remember it and they arent actually awake and never remember it the following morning. If he is just waking and refusing to go back to bed just be firm and put him back to bed each time he gets out it takes time but he will soon realise you mean for him to go back to sleep Good luck weve had it at several times with both our girls (almost 5 and 3 years old) and its never easy but will pass xx

Sometimes kids just have routinary sleeping habits and maybe this is one of his. If he is not feverish or feeling ill or something, there's nothing wrong with him. Sometimes kids get irritated with the disturbance caused by wee-wee so that is why they cried. My son when he was still at that age experienced the same thing, it was only during the time that I stopped wearing diapers on him that I learned that he was irritated when being awaken by his wee-wee.

My son is more likely similar to your son.When he wakes up every middle of the night or 1am or 3am i give him his bottle of milk and he gets back to sleep. Sometimes when he really cries and cries it's because of his teething. So i give him a teething gel and i put him to our bed to give him a cuddle and he gets feeling better andget back to sleep. So maybe your son has his teething and try him to cuddle and get him back to sleep or give him a warm bottle of milk.

at this little age children start observing things more, it can be the influence of the environment. Like the televisio, something on tv which made him scare, or not on the tv maybe in his observation he must have seen something scary. This is just my thought.

he could be having bad dreams or waking up and possibly seeing dark figures. I know how this sounds but i have heard that children especially young kids can seee things that we can't. I had a friend who woke up and she swears she saw somekind of dark figure hovering over her and then it went away. I beleive that evil does exist and that they look for easy targets such as children. Do some research on the web on deamons and children