18 Month Sleep Regression

BuckeyeNut05

Oh, boy. One of our girls has been waking up off and on around 1am for the past month. It used to be very intermittent, but now it is every night! They have slept through the night since they were three months old, so this is very painful.

Does anyone have any tips? They share a room, so its a little trickier.

These are our first children, so I am not quite sure what to do to get through this quicker and without doing things that might be accidentally encouraging it to continue.

TIA!

BuckeyeNut05

Beuller? Anyone? Please, I am desperate for some sleep!

rachelebrown

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somewhereincali

honestly you may be getting silence because not very many peoples kids sleep through the night at 3 months and have not a single problem but a 1/night nightwaking at 18 months

I would just take care of what you need to when they wake and thank your lucky stars this is the worst of your sleep problems it will likely sort itself out in the end

LottaLattes

You might try the sleep lady book, which is the philosophy of both the sleep coaches I talked to. But I agree with the PP, waking up once doesn't sound like a super bad regression, my 17 mo olds have been waking up 1-3 times each so I have my own battles

BuckeyeNut05

Yes, I had a feeling we were pretty lucky with the fact that they'd been sleeping well until now. I will try the book. The one time a night has progressed to 3-4 times a night in the past two days and its making it slightly hard to stay awake and pay attention at work. Thanks, guys!

somewhereincali

Sounds good. Sleep challenges are hard no matter what.
I do find my attitude also makes a difference in how I feel about being tired. The more I accept it and tell myself it will get better one day the better I tend to feel. The more I feel like it sucks the worse I feel

LottaLattes

When I get to the point of being really unhappy about sleep, I try to remind myself that there are women in this world who have lost their kids or who are having trouble having kids, and they would do anything to be in my shoes. Works better when my husband isn't snoring loud enough for me to hear him while I'm up

cukimerrydoll

I was told the same thing was going on with the boy I nannied. When I had him on an overnight, I inadvertently skipped nap #2. He slept through the night that night, and his parents have said there have been no problems since. I know, he's not mine, but I at least wanted to pass on one thing that worked. Our twins should be here this spring!