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Up To Last Week My 5 Year Old Was A Really Good Sleeper?

Until 7 nights ago he started waking up about 5 times. The first time is for a wee, at 3am, regular as clockwork. Normally he'll nod right back off but recently he has started coming in our room asking for someone to check on him every few minutes til he sleeps. When we tuck him in, we tell him everything is alright and checking on him might not be possible as we are very tired (I'm 8 months pregnant and my husband gets up at 5am every day for work and gets very little sleep as he doesn't usually get home til gone 9pm.)

My son will then say its ok, let us get back in bed and then just as we''re about to nod off...he'll call for one of us just so he can have someone in his room. The excuse he gave for the first 4 days was "you get to share a bed!" Last night it was "I'm not sure nothing will happen to me!" I'm at my wits end, nothing is working, I tried talking to him, I tried being firmer with him, I tried not talking to him and just putting him back in bed...has anyone else had this? It's not being pregnant I don't think as he is excited to meet his little sister and up to now slept very well. He's been involved with my pregnancy from the day he found out we are expecting so he doesn't feel pushed out (I did ask him this, and he said he is excited for his sister coming.)

He only ever co slept when he is poorly, so its not that he's used to our bed of anything. Help!!

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  • Kukana
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Remember that any life changes count as stress, even if they are positive ones like a new baby, or indeed Christmas. So there's a lot going on in your son's life. If he just started school in September, that's been another one. He's probably excited, and maybe a little worried about the new baby even though he seems to positive.

    The easiest thing - if your bed is big enough - is to let him crawl in with you in the night, so long as he stays still and goes straight off to sleep. A few nights of co-sleeping and he may feel more secure and more able to sleep through the night in his own bed again.

  • Mrs
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Well it can be Christmas but there is one thing that happens with kids around the age of 5 and I know my mom talked about me coming to their bed every night. At this age they start to understand that parents and others can die. That causes many thoughts and of course they come out at night and is not always easy to make into words. Life and death are related and he will soon have a baby sister so that's another thing that can contribute. Maybe he would sleep better sleeping on your floor on his mattress for awhile. If he then wakes up you can just simply reach a hand out. This is just a normal stage in their development.

  • 8 years ago

    This was a problem in my family, too, especially as Christmas approached. The Grinch is depicted stealing candy canes from sleeping kids. Santa breaks in while everyone sleeps, and will visit children's bedsides. Then too, he may be going through a growth spurt which often causes leg pain in boys.

    Source(s): Life experience
  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Has he have been given something that he likes as a secure practices merchandise like teddy or blanket? verify it fairly is with him. Is he in a huge boy mattress or a cot?If he's in a cot maybe he feels trapped now? i might recommend interacting with him in his room in any different case he might merely desperate that screaming is a reliable determination as you're taking him on your room. upload evening easy? or flow away a easy on with books next to him, to coach that bedtime too could be relaxing. mind's eye thoughts that contain him interior the tale are reliable the ignore approximately mattress and merely hear to the tale. in lots of circumstances the start getting nightmares at this age and there 2year previous molars so in lots of circumstances throws out the recurring. Countdowns are reliable too. 10Min's to flow then bedtime and so on it gets them arranged particularly than merely picking them up at 7.30 and stale to mattress. My Son is 3 years now. And he turns his easy off whilst he's done along with his books and stuff. We merely verify we replaced his mattress time with the help of 30mins, and he has additionally dropped his daylight hours nap so come bedtime he's knackered besides. fortunate for us he can not study the clock! reliable success and desire it works out ok

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