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Newborn baby, so all 3 times.
You have my sympathies
You're in it for a while. My oldest is a night owl somehow but my youngest is hitting 2 and wakes me up at all 3 times (I think he gets up at 5 but only wakes me when hungry, like a cat).
I don't think it'll get better until they're out of the house.
My 3 year old wakes up screaming at exactly 1 am every night. Not crying or yelling, full screaming like he saw a ghost. It usually wakes up my 6 month old and then we're all doomed.
I started staying up and waiting by his door so I can run right in. He's always fine and just goes "oh hi daddy do you want to sing me a song?"
Ah our 3yo did that for a while a year ago, it's very upsetting. At least yours snaps out of it quickly, ours would go for a half hour but I managed to calm her with numbers. We would count upwards as high as we could switching places and she'd calm down. Side effect, she can count past 100 now.
Oh, also it's apparently similar to sleep walking. Apparently they'll do that eventually.