Sleep Regression at 15/16 months??? or just rebelling already?

kristalovesjared

Ella has always slept a lot. 13-14 hours at night and 3-4 hours worth of naps during the day. Usually after 2-3 hours of being awake she starts to show signs of being sleepy. The past 2 days she has not shown signs of being sleepy at all, but once she's asleep sleeps for her normal amount of time. She fought both naps and bedtime last night terribly. I thought maybe she is switching to 1 nap a day, so today I waited until 12:30 to put her down (usually goes down at 11am for first nap) and once we got in her room she started saying no, no, no because she knew it was naptime. After 30 minutes of screaming bloody murder I went back in to redo the routine and sure enough when I picked her up she was fine. She refused to listen to a book or me sing (am I really that bad??? ) so I told her it was time for bed and put her back down. She cried another 30 minutes and finally went to sleep.

She has been saying no a lot lately and definitely has her own opinion on things now so I'm not sure if she's just testing me or if it's a sleep issue...

Anyone been here? 

Alli923

Hmmm, do you think she's teething by any chance?  I noticed Lucy was doing that a few weeks ago when her molars were coming in.  She was just so cranky and tired.  I gave her some ibuprofen about 30 minutes before nap/bedtime and that seemed to help a lot.

Also, we've been giving her board books when we put her down for naps.  It has helped cut down on the fussing tremendously.  She's quite content to lay up in her crib and "read" herself to sleep.  And, it keeps her from thinking about how crappy her little gums feel. 

kristalovesjared

I dont' think it's teething... she has her molars and I don't see any irritation where the eye teeth will come in.

I'll try the board books though, she does love books!

gina000

We had that happen a few weeks ago, mainly at bedtime, he would start to cry as soon as we walked into his room for bed. I just put him down gave him his doggie and turned on his music and left the room.

 Sometimes he would settle down quickly and fall asleep but sometimes he would scream.  I can tell the difference in a cry that means I really don't want to be in here but will go to sleep and I don't want to be in here and won't go to sleep, if it was the latter cry, I would go in  put him up and offer a sippy of water, breaks the cycle ( can't cry and drink at the same time) 9 times out of 10 this did the trick.  I would read 1 book and put him back to bed, asleep within 10 min.

It only lasted a short time we are back to our normal good sleep pattern.  Good luck.

 

jcyahne

In my experience nothing ever stays the same in the sleep department.  One week it will be awesome with the girls sleeping through the night and taking a nice afternoon nap.  Then the next week chaos will ensue and sleep will always be met with tears and tantrums.  My only advice is to try not to over think it and stay consistent to the extent possible.  I rarely have been able to find a reason behind any sleep changes and when there is improvement can rarely tie it back to anything I did.  Good luck!  It sounds like your little cutie is developing a mind of her own!!!