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Hello Everyone!!  
 
I am at my wits end when it comes to getting my three year old to sleep through the night and I was hoping that maybe some of you might have some advice!  
 
My three year old will get up at 3am every night and she won’t go back to bed. She will cry and get out of bed every time we put her back in it. It doesn't matter if I put her to bed at 7 pm or 10 pm. When she wakes up we take her back to her bed, tuck her in, and leave the room. She immediately gets up and runs after you. We put a child proof door knob thing on the inside of her door to keep her in her room and once she is asleep we open her door back up. She of course screams when you do this but after about 10 mins she falls back asleep. We have gotten away with doing this for a while but she has figured out how to outsmart it. She is obviously tired when she wakes up rubbing her eyes and yawning. But it’s a fight to get her to go to sleep even when she goes to bed the first time we have to fight with her to go to bed.  
 
For a while I thought maybe she didn't need to go to bed so early so I tried putting her to bed at 8, 9, and 10 o’clock, but it didn't make any difference – 3am on the dot she was at our door banging away!  
 
I thought she was waking up because she was hungry, so I tried feeding her a bedtime snack like oatmeal or toast before putting her to bed but to my disappointment this also didn't do anything.  
 
She still naps and I thought maybe this was the cause. However, when she doesn’t nap she is VERY grumpy, falls asleep on the floor at 7 o’clock and still gets up at 3.  
 
ANY suggestions or ideas would be appreciated!! We really don't know what else to try.  
 
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