Are your little ones waking in the middle of the night for hours

Mine stopped napping at 22 months. He was always a great sleeper (a month ago 8:15pm- 7:30am). Past 2 weeks has been having nightmares around 2:30/3am and takes an hour to fall back to sleep. Mostly dreams about robots attacking him (toy robot grandma bought him for this birthday or the Stop & Shop robot) 🫠

My 4 year old wakes up for like 3-4 hours in the middle of the night a few times a week and is WIRED. She doesn’t nap and will be tired all day then goes to bed late again. My daughter had really low iron which we found out through blood work a year ago because her sleep was so bad and she was tired all day but had a hard time sleeping at night. She was on an iron supplement for a few months and then her sleep issues were so much better. Just had her iron levels tested again and waiting for the results because I think they’re low again and may be what is causing her to wake up like this. Doesn’t mean it’s iron for your little one but might be worth getting tested. You can also look up iron deficiency symptoms to see if they match and chat with your pediatrician about it. Hope this helps!

We have done blood due to his austism and he is perfect is all the ranges