Almost 5 year old keeps waking up at night?

[Anonymous]

Son turns 5 in a couple months and he used to sleep through the night good . The last 90 days or so he's been waking up during the night. Then he's hard to get back to sleep. Any ideas or is this just a phase he always sleeps good even when he was a newborn.

[Anonymous]

Put a timer or alarm of some type in his room.
We use Alexa Dot.
If he wakes up and can’t get back to sleep he can turn his light on, set timer for 20 mins. Then do something calm and quiet in bed to reset his brain. Look at books, draw, etc.
when timer goes off, light back out and try again.
This worked wonders for my kid.
I don’t need to be awake just because she is.

The above advice is assumimg your kid isn’t napping. If being forced to nap during the day that will mess up night sleep and is a different issue.

[Anonymous]

Ask him what's causing him to wake. Could be hundreds of possibilities, so no sense at stabbing in the dark at it by guessing.

[Anonymous]

Keep an eye on this. If it’s new. My kids sleep epilepsy started by night waking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Keep an eye on this. If it’s new. My kids sleep epilepsy started by night waking.

Can you elaborate? Like crying in sleep or fully waking up to start the day?

[Anonymous]

Get his iron checked. Low iron can do this.