anyone else's dc sleep totally off?

[maya's mommy]

It is almost 6 am and I have been up for an hour! I just could not stay in bed this monring which is unusual for me. When I was pregnant with dd I had really strange sleep patterns too. I would fall asleep early then be up in tehmiddle of thenight and fall back alseep for a few hours. I was lucky that I had a very flexible work schedule so I was able to do that.
Recently, my dd has been waking up very early or in the middle of the night and is then up for a few hours and falls back asleep. Yesterday she woke up at 2 am and wanted to see our cats. She was then up until 4:30 or 5 and fall back asleep until after 11. There have been a numbr of times she gets up at 4 or 5 and is then up for a bit and falls back asleep until late in the morning. I don't know what to do about it, right now I am able to to just go with her schedule. We don't have much planned during the days, lots of playgroups that we haven't been able to go to and i miss them but she seems okay with it.
For most of the summer she has been staying up late and sleeping late whcih is fine, it is just this waking up in the middle of the night that doesn't make sense to me. Is this just someting with her age? Or could it somehow be related to my being pregant?

michelle

[brownay2]

Michelle-

I think this could be a number of things why she is waking. I am in the same shoes with my 3 yr. old daughter. But there could be many things over here causing it, first I truly believe they sense the pregnancy, number two it just could be a toddler thing, and sometimes I think she pushes my limits, it seems if I pretend I am asleep she eventually goes to bed. ANothe rfactor for me is we are still co-sleeping. With the baby coming in February, we would like her to transition to her own bed/room. It has been really hard, when you have her, then my son, my husband is usually not home to watch him. I love co-sleeping but getting them to be on theor own is very hard for me right now, she protests greatly.

I hope things go better with the sleep factor, for the both of you.

Renee

[danav]

My kids are sleeping great - all THREE of them, actually! (I rarely feel the baby moving during the night - it's mostly in the afternoons).

But I am having a terrible time with sleep myself. :( I am waking up several times during the night, and not just for a moment then back to sleep - it's taking me a long time to get back to sleep usually. Then of course my kids are up by 7:30 or 8, so there's no sleeping in for me either. :yawning:

Renee - have you tried moving your DD to her own bed in the floor in your bedroom before moving her to her own room? That might be a way to ease her out of your bed but have her still feel close, until she's ready to move to her room.