Sleep - Denver,CO

This is pretty typical behavior for little ones around this age. My youngest grandson just turned 1 a week ago and my daughter has been pretty sleep deprived for the past week or more. She said he doesn't just wake up and want to nurse...he wakes up and wants to play...or will just SCREAM if she won't get up with him!!! Behavior like this normally comes just before and during a new "learning phase"...my grandson is currently really getting good at walking....and he is displaying a renewed interest in signing...and just in the past 2 days has added about half a dozen signs to his "vocabulary".
There is a school of thought that says as new connections are made in the brain, as they learn new things, that sleep is disturbed. But take heart...my daughter reported yesterday that they slept really well the night before...so there IS hope!!!

HI-I would say do not give in no matter what. Stay with him a little longer and explain to him how much more fun his bed is than yours. Buy him a new stuffed animal or something he'll love and tell him it likes to only stay in his room with him at night.
Good luck!!

Hmm...it could be a number of things and children go though phases where they are bad sleepers but here are some tips I suggest you check out and hopefully your LO will get into some better sleeping habits.

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You need to get a good routine in place for bedtime. The warm bath, a not too adventurous bedtime story, a good tucking in. Keep his room as dark as you can so he isnt distracted when his eyes peep open in the night. He might do better with some white noise in the room... a fan running but not pointing on him is usually a good noise that keeps them sleeping. If he wakes in the night and toddles to your room I suggest just letting him in and giving him no other choice but to go straight back to sleep otherwise he has to go back to his bed
Watch what you are feeding him late in the day and for dinner. Sugar highs can make them wake up, and if he's drinking a lot of fluids he might be waking up when he has to pee his diaper. He is waking more now because he's a little older and more aware of his surroundings..... getting him to feel "secure" enough to back to sleep until "the sun comes up" is something that you will have to work on for a little while until he gets the message. I am not a fan of crying it out, but at his age I think I would do it if it was part of getting him to stay put in the night. With mine, when they came to my bed at night I just let them in.... we all got to stay sleeping that way and that was important for my next days sanity and endurance ;)