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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]15oz of water overnight is completely insane. He's waking constantly to pee because he DOES need to pee. He's 2.5 years old. His bladder isn't that big! Plus he's still learning the urges.

My 3.5 year old has maybe 4oz water overnight. And that's including the 1-2oz he uses to swallow his supplements at night before he gets into bed.

My 3.5 year old sleeps until 9am, which works well for our family, but he also doesn't sleep until 10pm. Which means that I need to deal with him until 10pm. But that's just how it is.

You can't put a child to bed at 7pm and expect them to sleep until 9am the next morning! Even if they needed that much sleep in a 24 hour period, they also need stimulation. If you like your morning sleep, then you need to put your kid down later in the night.

And by 2 years old, my kids can reach for their own water bottles in the night. And put them back where they go. Just show him where it is and tell him you're not coming in to give him water in the night anymore. It's probably just an excuse to keep you coming in all the time. Which isn't that surprising since his room probably feels like a prison to him with the length of time you expect him to stay in there by himself.[/quote]

Yeah, I'm going to cut the water down, I think 5-6 oz will be plenty, I can divide it between two bottles. Heck, if I can get it to one, that'll be even better, but baby steps! I like the idea of a late bedtime, but that means he has a really long day. He doesn't nap so by 6pm, he's been up for 12 hours straight. He wakes up at 6-6:30 regardless of when he goes to bed, so if I also put him to bed later that cuts into the little sleep he does have at night. We are out and about all day and that's tiring too. He won't nap anywhere but the car but I can't drive around with him for 2 hours because I also have my 16 month old. If he's basically awake between 11pm-3am, that means he's getting like 7-8 hours a day of solid sleep, that doesn't seem like a lot when he was sleeping a 12 hour stretch before.[/quote]

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