17/18 month sleep regression???

MelodyMoonstone · May 2011

I used to be able to put Doozer right down to sleep - he'd lay down awake and go right to sleep. no issues. Not lately!!! The past 2 weeks, on and off, he's screaming when we try to put him down, and he's been waking up at night screaming too. I've been giving him motrin before bed because I know he's getting some teeth, but it doesn't seem to be working - he's losing his mind. Is there something weird that happens right about 17 or 18 months?

MrsKaCy · May 2011

I would like to know this too! DD is 18 months and has been doing the same things. She takes forever to fall asleep at night after we put her down and then she wakes up for the day ridiculously early. She is also waking up crying during the night. She is so overtired by the end of the day. We try to put her down earlier but it's not helping. It's a vicious cycle!

andiandlou · May 2011

Mine had the same thing going at 15/16 months....I'm not sure what exactly was going on, but I'm thinking teething, new MS (talking), and also we were still co-sleeping (DS in his crib in our room). He was also fighting naps and would only take them if I slept with him in my bed.... so this made me think he was having a major case of separation anxiety. I now take one nap a day with him and that seems to be doing the trick, at night he goes right to bed, no issues. Hope you figure out what's going on with your LO

Nazir · May 2011

DS stopped STTN at 18 months. He would wake up for 2 hours each night talking and playing in his crib. It lasted 7 WEEKS!

pink.dutch.tulips · May 2011

dd did this too at roughly the same time and it drove me NUTS !!! at 21 months, she STILL doesn't sttn consistently like she used to but she's going down w/out the screaming fits Smile . she sttn for a few days and i thought we were finally in the clear, NOPE ! she's woken up in the middle of the night, the last 2 nights.

Monsieur_et_Madame_Ha · May 2011

OMG you are describing EXACTLY what's been going on at our house (except that DD is 19 months). And for the record, sleep regression/separation anxiety is apparently quite common at around 18 months.

We took DD's crib apart yesterday and put her mattress directly on the floor while we're waiting to pick up her big girl's bed. We had no choice because she had figured out how to crib dive, so we had to bolt into her room the second she'd start crying and stay until she was sound asleep otherwise it'd be 30 seconds of crying followed by a loud thud and my heart stopping while I'd rush to her room to see if she was ok :S

I don't know it was just a fluke, but her first night out of the crib was the best she's had in weeks. She cried hysterically for all of 3 minutes, tried to get out of her room (she can open the door but we just put up a gate there so she can't get out), threw both her loveys out in the hallway, and then that was it. I heard her cry out "Mama" once at 3:30, but I think that was in her sleep because I didn't hear anything else, and then she woke up at 6:30 this morning happier than ever.

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