Help, why does DD wake and not want to go back to sleep?

Every 5 or 6 nights (and last night was one of them) my DD wakes up sometime at night and the problem is she does not want to go back to sleep. If we go in there to rub her back she will start laughing and playing like it's play time. We don't say anything to her except, "night-night" so it shouldn't be any fun for her. She is fine as long as you are in her room. If you leave she cries. If we do get her back to sleep she will wake in about 15 min. This usually goes on for about 3 hours or so. Luckily it doesn't happen every night, but when I'm up for 3 hours at night it is hard the next day. We do sometimes give her tylenol thinking maybe her gums are hurting her. I have thought too it could separation anxiety.

Any ideas why should could be waking and not going back to sleep? Any ideas on how to get her back to sleep when this happens. I am not opposed to CIO, we did that with my oldest and it worked, the problem is I'm afraid if we let her CIO, she will wake the other 2 kids and my oldest DD is in all day K, so I want her to get a good nights sleep. Any suggestions you can give I would greatly appreciate it!!

Thanks.

 

Every 5 or 6 nights (and last night was one of them) my DD wakes up sometime at night and the problem is she does not want to go back to sleep. If we go in there to rub her back she will start laughing and playing like it's play time. We don't say anything to her except, "night-night" so it shouldn't be any fun for her. She is fine as long as you are in her room. If you leave she cries. If we do get her back to sleep she will wake in about 15 min. This usually goes on for about 3 hours or so. Luckily it doesn't happen every night, but when I'm up for 3 hours at night it is hard the next day. We do sometimes give her tylenol thinking maybe her gums are hurting her. I have thought too it could separation anxiety.

Any ideas why should could be waking and not going back to sleep? Any ideas on how to get her back to sleep when this happens. I am not opposed to CIO, we did that with my oldest and it worked, the problem is I'm afraid if we let her CIO, she will wake the other 2 kids and my oldest DD is in all day K, so I want her to get a good nights sleep. Any suggestions you can give I would greatly appreciate it!!

Thanks.

 

I have the same problem with my ds. Although it is consistantly at 4 am that he wakes and wants to play. He has done this off and on since he was born. The past 2 times I let him CIO, and fortunately he did not wake any other sleeping children. Then he goes a week or so not doing it, but suddenly does it again. I would love an easy (OK, just any) solution.

 

The same thing is happening here too. On or the other will wake up about once a week at some point in the night. I go in, shush, etc. and she will laugh. I hope we get some help with this, as the only thing I have found to help is to sleep with her on the couch and that's not a great solution.

 

One or the other of our girls also does this. I would love to hear what others have to say. I really have know idea why they do it. They are really good sleepers the rest of the time. Usually they end up doing this on separate nights so we have two nights in a row with little to no sleep. Then they will go back to sleeping all through the night. I am dumbfounded!

 

Glad I'm not alone, although I wouldn't wish this on anyone. But no one has any suggestions/advice for us???

 

Please tell us what to do... I was up 12-3 am last night with this same issue.

 

My now two year old did this from 7mos to 11mos. The best way I found to handle it was just ignore him. I wouldn't go in unless I knew there was a problem. If he was really fussing or crying, differently than just the "I'm awake" fussing, I'd go in and check. If something needed fixing, I'd take care of it with very little light and no talking other than, "it's time for night-night" in a very boring voice and then leave and not go back. He had a few stuffed toys and the aquarium thing so he could amuse himself until going back to sleep. He just eventually stopped doing it. With my twins, they've always been in the same room but I treated night wakings the same with them. They learned to sleep through the other. I've always had fans/white noise in the older kids rooms so the little ones' crying didn't wake them.