I have a 2 year old that is waking at 3-4am every morning and is either crying or screaming and is only soothed by me taking her into my bed but sometimes that doesn't help. I have gotten her a nightlight and a soother and sometimes those help but I am living with family while my hubby is deployed and this is waking everyone up because she gets sooo loud. What else can I do so that she will sleep through the night again.

We drove down here from Washington, and then her daddy deployed not long ago and I am expecting a new baby here in about 2-3 weeks...could it be her routine is messed up because of everything going on? Is this just a phase?

thanks in advance =) 

It very well could be her way of acting out because Daddy is gone. My son was potty trained before his daddy left the first time. The moment he realized he was gone he quit sleeping and started needing diapers again. He was about your daughters age. 

sounds like her routine has been interrupted (moving, and daddy leaving) and knowing that theres a new baby coming soon. As much as it kills us parents sometimes we need to let them self soothe. Shes going to get into the habit of bedtime in Mommys room and they need to learn that their room is where they need to be during bedtime. It could also be just a phase shes going through as well. Does she take naps during the day? If so how long? What time? Maybe try adjusting her nap time to a later time to make her sleep longer at night depending on when he bedtime is? I know its hard to deal with it with family living in the same household cause your trying to keep the peace between 2 families. With mine I always found that she slept better taking a bath with lavendar right before bed...of course mine took after me and could sleep through an earthquake but when she was itty bitty we had issues with having days and nights mixed up for what seemed the longest time. I started the bath and lavendar thing and after awhile she started sleeping better at night. Good luck. 

glad i am not the only one going through this matt has gotten better but there have been times where he just wakes up screaming and i cant stop him david has had to get up and talk to him like he didnt hear me trying to soothe him and he even hates his room now at bed time we had rearanged it to see if it helped and it did a little 

She does take a nap during the day but it is usually only 20-30 minutes as any longer and she straight up wont ever go to sleep at night which we have been trying to get her back into a routine so 9:30 is her bedtime or at least when she needs to be asleep by.

We have tried multiple things all in which seem to make her fall asleep better but never keeping her asleep or helping when she wakes at 3-4am.

We give her lavendar baths, she has a soother that plays, she has a nightlight, and she sleeps with "the blankey" and "the piggy".

I have been thinking it might have been night terrors but I watched her and she wakes up, sits up and screams/cries with eyes wide open. Unfortunately she is a very light sleeper. Today we fed her right before bed to see if she simply needs a full tummy to get through the night. I am running out of options.

I do appreciate yall responding. =) 

That sounds exactly like night terrors. My oldest use to dothat too. Eyes wide open. We took him to the Peds doctor who did a sleep study and that was what it was. I could say his name etc.. and he wouldnt respond just scream bloody murder. There was nothing i could do to calm him down.