How do you deal with night wake ups?

Question

My girl is typically a great sleeper, only having 1 or 2 bad nights a week. On those nights she will wake up cry/screaming and sometimes wont settle back to sleep. Who knows from what...nightmares, growing pains, teething pains, or something else. 
She sleeps in her crib in her room. I go in an comfort her, sometimes picking her up if it's really bad. However, this always makes it worse when I lay her back down...
So I'm just curious, how do y'all handle night wake ups nowadays?

Answer

So lately my son has figured out that if he can’t find a paci and he cries for one, mommy will magically appear and give him one. I then realized he has started throwing his pacis out of his crib, and I’m starting to think it’s just to get me to come in there. 😑 I’d like to get rid of pacis but he is very attached to them.
But normally I don’t ever pick him up unless something is wrong - wet his PJs/bed, is obviously in pain, etc. He went through a period where he was waking up every night and I spent an hour in his room patting his back. He wouldn’t go back to sleep so I sat in the recliner in his room. He would wake up and cry and stand up to look for me, and when he’d see me, he’d go back down for a few minutes and then pop back awake and look for me.
After three nights of doing this, he finally gave up and stopped waking up. Now he wakes up only when something it majorly wrong. I’ll hear him wake up sometimes but he puts himself back down.
I did recently start putting a little blanket on him. I realized he was waking up cold because he would wake up at the same time every night. He wears long sleeve footie pajamas, but he just likes to be really warm when he sleeps.

Answer

My son has been an excellent sleeper since 3 months old (thank you sleep training!) but this week he has been hard to put to bed and then wakes up throughout the night (doesn’t cry, but will talk, walk around in his crib, grunt, bang on the wall). It’s the 12 month sleep regression! 😫 should pass on a couple of weeks!

Answer

I literally put like 8 binkies in her crib because I noticed if she can’t find it that’s when she cries. She only gets a binky in the car or crib so I collected them and just leave them in the crib.

Answer

My son rarely wakes up at night. Last night was a bad night and exception to his norm. He woke up 3 times. The 3rd time he woke up I made him some warm milk and got some tylenol. We had pizza for dinner and even my almost 4 year old woke up because he was thirsty. That worked and he slept the rest of the night. He is cutting 2 teeth which is why I gave tylenol. Regardless, I was up hourly until 2:30 so I'm exhausted.

How do you deal with night wake ups?

Let’s Glow

Glow is here for you on your path to pregnancy

25+ million

4.8 stars

20+

Getting Pregnant

Pregnancy

1st Year (Baby & You)

Baby Products