My daughter won't sleep through the night anymore

I feel for you ... My son is going through one of those phase too ... I haven't slept more than 2 hours straight in weeks!!! :( But I do know why my son wakes up s many times during the night, he is teething - only 6 months old but he already got 2 teeth!! ... and I have the ffeling that the 3rd one is going to cut through very soon .... Last night it was 4 am and I still had not had a chance to sleep ... I feel on anoter planet today ... lol hopefully it will be better tonight ... I hope I think your daughter is either probably growing or teething -good luck

I think all children go through this phase. I see that a poster had mentioned Dr. Sears!! He's amazing and almost always right. YOu might want to bring your daughter into bed with you for a while. It's possible she is having dreams wether good or bad and is not able to verbalize them to you and that can be scary for a little one. Everyone is always afraid if you bring your child into the bed with you that they will never leave and nothing could be farther from the truth. They will leave. It's a right of passage for a child. Some just go through it slower. B

There could be lots of reasons: growth spurt, change in routine during day, teething, an oncoming illness. It's important to keep the nap and take her to bed at the same time everynight. Here are some medical reasons (don't want to freak you out, but sometimes the kid has no symptoms for ear infections) http://www.askdrsears.com/html/7/T070400.asp

How old is she? My son is 14 months old and he HAS to take 2 naps a day or he won't sleep through the night. I know it sounds weird but if he doesn't take his naps then he gets OVERTIRED and fights his sleep. She could also be going through a growth spurt or teething (depending on her age) so this could be keeping her awake at night. The only thing that I noticed that helps is starting a bedtime routine. A bath, a massage with lotion and a bedtime story or song. It may not work right away but my son thrives on routine and knows when it's bedtime. Good luck! I hope you find something that works for you both.

My kids did this for a time. I finally made a bedtime routine. Baths, teeth then bedtime story. I also had to make sure they had no food with red dye or stimulants in it for a few hours before bed. For the first while I also had a music box playing in the room after the story was over. As it wound down, they fell asleep.

Without an age ts hard to say, but most children will go through this phase. However you should speak to your pediatrician. It could be health or other reasons. But if the doc gives her a clean bill of health and she is still waking up.... don't rush to her.. its difficult but you should ignore her.. she will get the picture.. it is oka for a baby to cry

well, since you didn't post her age, it will be difficult to give specific advice but maybe I can help. Well it could be one of the more obvious; teething, growth spurts, bad dreams, growing pains, ear infection, or an illness coming on. ALso, it could be her sinus' the mucus draining, could cause her to be more congested, and she wakes up because of it, this (along with Ear pain) can be helped by putting a few pillows under her matress so it's at an incline, that way it will help the mucus drain better, waking her less. If it's just started, I would be more apt to say it's an oncoming cold, or that it's allergy/sinus related due to the changing season (of course it does depend on where you live) there are other reasons a child could wake up to, What kind of matress do you have? OUr Oldest couldn't sleep on the cheap one we bought at walmart, so we went and bought another, nicer one, and he does fine on it now (the baby has to sleep on the cheap one! He doesn't mind it though). Is she acting fine during the day? Sometimes baby's just go through restless stages of sleep too. I know with my oldest, when he was first learning to walk, he didn't sleep well, he just wanted out of his crib, so he could walk around, he eventually got better after a couple of weeks. If she's not running a fever, and doesn't seem sick, I think it's safe to let her cry for a bit. Give her at least 5-10 minutes to settle down herself, and then go in and check on her, pat her on the back, and leave before she's asleep. She'll stop waking up soon enough. I can't remember the last time my almost 3 year old woke up! Good luck!

We had a similar problem with our daughter from the time she was between 3-3.5 until she was almost 4.5. At that time we had her tonsils and aednoids removed and tubes put in. After about a 2 week recovery it was amazing the difference. Her tonsils were so large she wasn't getting enough oxygen at night and would end up either sleep walking or with night terrors virtually every night. Once she could breath it was much better. Without knowing how old she is and if there might be any other factors, it's hard to say. It's likely a phase of some kind, but there is a CHANCE that it may be something else - an ear infection or a number of other things. Will your doc do a call back without having an appointment? If it was me, I would call, leave a message for a nurse who would call me back later and discuss it with me - whether I needed to bring her in or what. They know my daughter and can give me better suggestions than a mostly anonymous website.

Hi there, I had the same problem as you it done my head in what i did in the end was made sure she had her milk and her teddy clean nappie i would then put her to bed and i know this is going to sound bad but when she started crying to get out i would blank her she used to scream the place down but the more she knew that i was not going to her she soon quiten down it took a while but got there in the end. Good luck to you however you decide to deal with it