Sleep regression at three?

Lisichka

DD has been an awesome sleeper pretty much since 5 months old (with a few sleep regressions here and there). For the past few weeks, she's been refusing to nap once or twice a week, so I figured she was getting ready to give up nap... not idea, but what can I do about that? The past week or two, she's also been very very difficult to put down at night. We've had to do Ferber again and I'm hoping it gets better soon, the whining, the stalling, the crying, the screaming at night is getting old. Now she's in her room, definitely tired, but fighting nap, yelling "mama, I want to take a nap in your bed" Sigh.

Has anyone had any experience with this? Is there such a thing as a 3-year sleep regression?

LoveEeyore

Oh yes.  Two things helped.  1- moved her little sister into her room. 2- Got a noise cancelling machine.  We have lived her over 2 years and the cars on the nearby highway never bothered her, but suddenly she was terrified and it took a week of hell before she could articulate why she didn't want to go to bed.  Good luck- hope you can figure out what the problem is.  Around 3 was a rough stage for us behaviorally for awhile.  If LO has the terrible threes, I'd chalk it up to that, otherwise I'd really try to get into her head and see what's going on.  DD's cropped up a bunch of new fears- mostly related to noise, all of a sudden.

Good luck- poor thing!

Weren't you the one with a family member putting cultural herbs under her mattress?  Maybe you need to ask for them back!!

Lisichka

LoveEeyore:

Oh yes.  Two things helped.  1- moved her little sister into her room. 2- Got a noise cancelling machine.  We have lived her over 2 years and the cars on the nearby highway never bothered her, but suddenly she was terrified and it took a week of hell before she could articulate why she didn't want to go to bed.  Good luck- hope you can figure out what the problem is.  Around 3 was a rough stage for us behaviorally for awhile.  If LO has the terrible threes, I'd chalk it up to that, otherwise I'd really try to get into her head and see what's going on.  DD's cropped up a bunch of new fears- mostly related to noise, all of a sudden.

Good luck- poor thing!

Weren't you the one with a family member putting cultural herbs under her mattress?  Maybe you need to ask for them back!!

Thanks for the advice! We'll keep trying to figure it out.

And yes, it was me, but it was salt in a little baggy, I don't really think that has anything to do with sleeping though