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sleep - what do you do when

kat.in.the.hatkat.in.the.hat
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NOTHING works.

I mean, nothing works on your LO in terms of their night wakings.

Last night, I was up with DD (16 months) two hours before putting her back in the crib and having her cry for fifteen minutes before she fell back asleep.

She's been doing this since before Christmas, which we wrote off as teething, having a cold and traveling.  But we've been home two weeks now, the teeth are through and the cold has gone away.  And she's still waking up.  Some nights, she wakes up three or four times, but we're able to get her back down either with patting her or rocking her.

Some nights though, she's up and there's nothing we can do.  Last night, I patted her back and sang to her for 30 minutes.  She'd fall asleep for 30 seconds, then pop up and look for me.  Tried rocking and she just wanted to read books.  Brought her to bed with us, and she just wanted to talk, same thing of falling asleep for a few minutes then popping back up to talk to us.

I'm at my sleep deprived wits end right now.  I end up crying every night because it's not like when she was a newborn and taking naps all the time during the day and I could nap and make it up.  Now, she naps once a day and two hours is a long nap for her.  So even when I nap with her, I'm not making up the lost sleep and it's leaving me unable to k clearly, especially at 2 a.m.

Is this just part of her speech development?  She's been walking and running forever so speech is the only big developmental thing I can see going on right now.  The only stuff I can find on toddler sleep regression is about 18 months.

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Re: sleep - what do you do when

  • penguingrrlpenguingrrl member

    When my older daughter was 16 months, right after Christmas as well, she decided she was done sleeping in a crib and had the exact behavior you're describing.  After several bad nights I decided to test my theory and converted her crib to a toddler bed and she started sleeping really well again immediately.  I realized that the entire time we were away for the holidays (10 days) she was either in a bed with an adult or in a sleeping bag on the floor and she wasn't willing to go back to a crib.  Could that be what's going on with your daughter?  I hope whatever's going on, you all get more sleep soon!

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  • kat.in.the.hatkat.in.the.hat

    oooooooh, that's a possibility.  when we were away, she was either in the PNP or in bed with us.

    When you daughter did that, did she fight naps in the crib as well?  Because she's taking good naps in the crib still.

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  • penguingrrlpenguingrrl member
    She napped OK in the crib, although I think it had to do with being so exhausted with not sleeping at night!  Sounds like being done with the crib is a possibility in your case!  Hope you sort it out soon and all get better sleep again!
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  • JssBB6JssBB6
    I feel your pain, DD has been doing this but she is only 10 months.  Last night she was up 5 times but did go back to sleep within 1/2 hour.  The night before she stayed up for 2 hours in the middle of the night.  I tried everything and then ended up waking my husband who got her back to sleep in 10 minutes.  IDK but I really hope this doesn't go on for another year...We've been trying NCSS but it's not really helping. 
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