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Sleep regression
Um, can this happen at age 2...?
DS used to be a wonderfully predictable sleeper. He went to bed at 7:30 or 8 and slept until 6:30-7, so on average, 11 hours. He also consistently slept for 2 hours during his nap.
I'd say in the past month, regardless of when he gets put to bed, he falls asleep closer to 9, and is up by 6 or 6:30, or 5:30 as was the case this morning. I feel like 8.5-9.5 hours of sleep is NOT enough for a 2yo. He's still napping ok, but I'd say at least 50% of the time, it is a total struggle to get him to nap... he fights it for an hour or two sometimes. What is going on with him!? Will it get better???
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Re: Sleep regression
Yep! I looked it up right when DS was 26 months:
https://www.askmoxie.org/2007/10/55-week-sleep-r.html
Moxie is all knowing about sleep, it seems.
ETA: I guess that link is about the 13 month regression, but somewhere on her site there is one about 26-27 months old too.
DD had a major sleep regression at 2 years 2 months, and DS just had a smaller one at 2 years 1 month. So I think it's something about the age.
Both were taking forever to fall asleep at night: DD did lots of fussing about it, while DS would just chat and interact with DD since they're now sharing a room. Naps were battles a lot of days - it was tough to get them to sleep, but once they did, they'd be out for at least two hours (so I knew they still needed the rest). At least DD would sleep in so she probably got enough hours logged, but DS started waking up even earlier than usual. Nothing we did, like with messing around with mealtimes and bedtimes, seemed to make much of a difference (except getting tough with DD that we weren't going into her room anymore at night). We pretty much just had to ride it out, and both were back to normal within a month.
FWIW, DD's naps got more sporadic around 2 years 4 months, and she was done completely by 2 years 6 months...so much fun with a newborn in the house!
Since she and DS have followed very similar sleep patterns their entire lives, I'm assuming he's going to follow suit - ugh.
it could also be the impending arrival of baby sister, he's probably starting to realize what's happening and wants more attention.
That's interesting because I'm really wondering how much he really understands that concept or not.
I was really surprised at how much DD understood and realized, I didn't get it until after DS was born (they are almost 20mo apart) but she understood so much! Are you reading him any "big brother" books? DD loved reading hers and to this day, will sometimes ask to read it (she knows it by heart by now). We have this one but they have one for brothers, too: https://www.amazon.com/Im-Big-Sister-Joanna-Cole/dp/0688145094/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320941376&sr=8-1
Yep, we have that one!
And one other one as well which he loves to read.
DS is 10 months old and DD and I still talk about the protaganist, Ellie, in one of her I'm a Big Sister books. It's really helped her shape her understanding of what a big sister does and what caring looks like.