Try to avoid thinking of your child’s sleep as a destination. Sleep improvements will come, and they also sometimes go. There are multiple reasons why your child may wake, that does not indicate a “sleep problem”. Night waking may be problematic but may also be indicative of typical childhood sleep. Here’s some reasons your child may wake- this is not an exhaustive list:

• Hunger
• Too hot
• Cold
• Teething pain
• Feeling under the weather
• Emotional/developmental progression
• Travel disturbance
• Needs connection with parent
• They are a baby

Meet your baby where they are at; be curious about the reason. Don’t always feel it’s something that needs fixing- there are core reasons for sleep disturbance, that are discussed on my page at length and there are general reasons-and often these worlds collide.