My 2 year old goes to bed at 8:30pm and wakes up at 11:30-12 at night and won't go back to bed. What do I do? I had her on a schedule and back in July of 2023 I went back home to Kentucky and she stayed with her dad who let her stay up all night and sleep all day. I've been trying to get her back on her schedule since and it's been harder than it was before. She doesn't take naps during the day but still wakes up all night. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
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Following for advice because I have none. A year next month my 2.5yr has been waking up every hour on the hour since she was a year and half. I’m beyond exhausted and need this to stop.
About to pay whatever I need to pay and take her to sleep doctors and whatever else she needs lol

My almost 2 year old wakes up in the middle of the night for hours sometimes! We haven't really worked a way through it yet, just kind of stay up with her until she goes back to bed. She's starting to get better about it.

My 2.5 year old does that sometimes, I’m not really sure why but I think she just has leftover energy that she didn’t burn off, or she didn’t eat much of her dinner. I try to make sure we stay at the playground until she’s ready to go and I let her stay in the bathtub during bath time until she’s ready to get out, then I try to give her a little snack before bed if she didn’t eat much dinner…

Has anyone tried co sleeping? My 15 month was doing this waking up in the middle of the night thing. He stopped first night and he sleeps about 8 hours straight still at 2.5 years old. Now if I can get my 5 week old to stop refluxing and sleep some too!! That woukd be great! Lol

You could also try starting your kiddo out in your bed where they feel secure and transition them to their bed when you're ready to sleep.

I've been co sleeping with my daughter since she was 2 months old. And so far it's done the job but here lately it's staying awake all night and all day long for me while she gets some sleep.

My son does the same. He wakes up on average about 2-5 times per night 😩 He has to be really exhausted to not wake at all during the night.

my daughter will go to bed at 8:30-9pm and wake up at 11:30-12 and stay up all night

I started making my son’s bedtime at 930pm and that still doesn’t help. I guess I’m lucky in that regard because he doesn’t usually stay up, most times he needs to be tucked back in

My little had this problem after visiting his dad too. It was hard but I adjusted his schedule a bit I changed his bed time from
8pm to between 9 and 10pm then for late night wake ups we did sleepy music, sleepy songs and if he hadn’t went back to sleep after an hour I would have him get up and do some baby yoga with me. It seems to get him sleepy enough to at least lay down before drifting back to sleep. If it’s a dire situation I’ll let him watch a little bit of non stimulating kids YouTube and he’ll get back to sleep fairly quickly.
Good luck mama you got this. ❤️

Well babies wax and wane. Hopefully its just a phase that will soon pass by the way side. Sending positive vibes to you and your tot!