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Does she go back to sleep without issue? Sometimes during a growth spurt they will wake, or if she is waking crying, she may be having night terrors. It is also possible that she is waking because she has to potty. Is she potty training? Our daughter will be three in February and she wakes when she has had a bad dream, she is sick or she has to potty. I hope this sheds some light.

She is potty trained but I will ask her if she needs to potty and she'll tell me no but she doesn't know how to say yes yet. Then she also does not potty as soon as she wakes up, she holds it for a while. When I go in there she has no tears so I don't think it's night terrors. yes she goes back to sleep after me laying and rocking with her for about 10 to 15 minutes.

I think the problem is that you are laying with her. She gets up because she wants you in her bed. Maddy will try that one too. She will get up and actually tell me she wants me in her bed. I think if you stop laying with her and tell her you need to sleep in your own bed that in about a week you will see a change. If you like your late night rendezvous with her, then by all means, let it go. I really think this is a good place to start. You may also start putting her directly on the potty when she wakes. You may be suprised that she will pee, and then go right back to bed. Little girls don't seem to have that hard of a time "holding it". Let me know what you think.

mjvdec01- she slept great all weekend and she didn't even have a nap on Saturday and Sunday. As soon as she started daycare on Tuesday and if I think correctly every week that she starts daycare is when she has trouble sleeping. Every time I ask our sitter, it's a in-home care with 4 other kids, about her nap she says' her usual time which is 1 to 2:45 and who knows what is true. Do you think that it has something to do with daycare or what?

So are you thinkin the naps at daycare are the problem? Or are you saying that you don't think the daycare is being truthful about her naps? I think I am missing something here.

both. I don't think she is totally truthful about the times of her nap and then when she doesn't have a nap she sleeps just fine. She had a nap on Mondya though, she stays home with daddy on Mondays and she slept fine Monday night. So that's what I don't get. IF it was her naps then she wouldn't ahve slept good on Monday night so it has to be the time of the nap I think. Monday she napped from 1 to 2:45 and went to bed at 9 and slept until about 8 the following morning. So it has to be something at the daycare but I don't know what.

I would talk to the daycare provider, let her know you are having sleep issues and give her a pad of paper to record exact sleep patterns while she is in her care for you to review when you pick her up. If she has a problem with doing that, or the times are the same every day, then I would say maybe this isn't the best place for your child.

okay so the babysitter tried not to give her a nap and she fell asleep on the floor so she left her there while the kids were playing around her so she didn't sleep long. So I went to put her down at 8:30 last night and she would not go to sleep until 10 after she fell asleep on me. We let her cry it out for at least 15 minutes. Then she was up at 6:15 this morning cause I think our cat woke her up. Then I tried to put her down at 1 and she was asleep but she woke up and layed there for a little while then decided to stand up and scream. Oh also I took her bedrail off she is in a 3 in 1 bed so it's like a daybed. She would stand up still in the bed and yell for me. I let her do this for 40 minutes, then I went in finally and she had no tears and was smiling. What would you do? I just don't understand she didn't start this until Wednesday when she back to daycare after being home with us for 4 days. please help!

All I can tell you is to be consistent. She has to learn that bedtime is bedtime. Ignore her screaming, if she gets out of bed, put her back. We used the Super Nanny method for awhile with Madalyn. It goes like this... Put her to bed, good night, hugs kisses, books, songs, door closed, lights out. The first time she gets up... it's bedtime, honey, kiss, hug, leave the room. Second time up, it's bedtime, leave the room, no other contact verbal or otherwise. All subsequent times she gets up, you say nothing, just put her back in her room and shut the door. This took us a good 2 hours the first night, then over the next 4 days it got better and better.

Okay all weekend she did not have a nap cause we were busy. Saturday she fell asleep on my lap watching TV about 8 and she woke up at 9:30 and was back asleep at 10. Last night she went to bed at 9 and woke up at 8:15 this morning. Would you say there is something going on at daycare or what could it possibly be?