Is there a 2 year sleep regression?

JJ&BB1146

Because if not, I soooooo need some sleep help.

DD is having some sort of sleep issue. She's not sick, she's not getting any new teeth that I know of, and nothing has changed in her bedtime routine or bedroom except for a new nightlight (because the other one burnt out). For the last 3 nights in a row, she's been up every few hours crying. Sometimes it's just for a couple of minutes, sometimes it's for several minutes. It's taking her a long time to go to sleep, at night, too. She just plays with her music toys and talks to herself. So although we put her to bed at 8ish, she really hasn't been going to sleep until 8:45/9 at least. We put her to bed at 7:30 tonight and she was out 8, so hopefully that helps.

She goes down for nap at 1 and usually sleeps 2-2.5 hrs. For the last 3 days, she's only slept for about an hour (today it was a little less, more like 45 min) and then wakes up screaming. I mean, screaming! As in, she starts to choke she's screaming so hard. I will bring her out in the living room and she will go back to sleep in my arms for another 1-2 hrs, but obviously she's not getting great sleep that way.

Any ideas on what might be causing this? Do you think she's just really overtired or is there something else I'm not catching? Please help this tired momma! 

 

ACR

We've had phases like that with DS where it turns out he was sick or teething. Can she tell you if something hurts? This happened to us about a month ago, and when I asked DS why he was crying, he told me his mouth hurt (or his tummy hurt). Both were accurate since he had a molar coming in & he had a stomach bug.

BLONDIE6FT

we had about a week of this and we couldn't figure anything out.  we thought we were going to go crazy! it passed although she has been yelling out in the middle of the night and/or crying. but only once in awhile now.

i hope it's just a phase! hang in there. it's rough!

sxb317

Yes!!! According to my own data point. My almost 2 year old has been the perfect sleeper until couple weeks ago. He now wakes up in the middle of the night and wants us either sit in the chair in his room or come in to our bed. I dont' want to encourage either of those habits since I'm about to have another baby. I've been reading up on this and still have no idea what to do since the old baby tricks (giving him a bottle, rocking him to sleep, cio, etc) does not work any more. One thing we did find out though was he had an ear infection last week so I'm hoping that was causing most of it (in the past, ear infections never caused him to have sleep issues). He has been sleeping better last couple days so I'm hoping it was just a phase. Hang in there and hopefully it will go away soon.