13 month old - Bedtime suddenly a disaster

Starfish+77 · January 2014

Until recently, we would go through our bedtime routine with my 13 month old DD which would end with a bottle of WCM and then put down in the crib drowsy. The past week she has been crying hard once put down in the crib. On one occasion I tried going in to calm her down but it didn't help, in fact she was worse off when I left. What could be causing this all of a sudden?? Anyone else's LO do something similar? I hate hearing her cry herself to sleep! I'm pregnant and hormonal and it makes me want to cry. Hoping this is just a phase? Separation anxiety?

Starfish+77 · January 2014

Thanks! :-) Unfortunately it's been a little longer than 15 seconds. Tonight it was about 20 minutes of crying. I really wanted to bury my pregnant head under a pillow bc my heart was breaking! We sleep trained early on so she is used to putting herself to sleep. Although not new, I'm wondering if she should still be taking 2 naps a day. She has been down to 1 for a little while but I'm wondering if she is just completely overtired by bedtime. UGGHH this stuff is so hard!

hmontty · January 2014

Isn't there a 12-month wakeful? Or am I misremembering? Might be a phase...give it another week and I'll bet she'll be over it.

ss265 · January 2014

Do you think she could be teething or have an ear infection? Is she sleeping all night or waking up? When my DS has an ear infection, the only symptom is that he wakes up frequently at night - no fever, no pulling at ears, nothing else. If she keeps this up, it might not hurt to have her checked out by your pediatrician.

mommymegan831 · January 2014

DS (19 months) has been doing this too. We went through sleep training several times with DD, 3. It seems like everything is great for a while, and then you have to do it all over again. I put DS to bed so I try to never go back because it just makes it worse. I also give him a bottle, brush his teeth and then put him in the crib. After crying for 10 minutes or so DH will give him another bottle and it usually does the trick. The past two nights he's gotten himself to sleep without the bottle. I've found then even when you do use a crutch that you probably shouldn't (giving a bottle in bed) as long as you don't do it right away and let them cry for a while 1st, they usually don't become dependent on it.

pb_bride · January 2014

We have been through phases like this - usually related to teething or illness or separation anxiety. I always send DH in to soothe DS. If I go in, it usually ends up with DS crying even harder. The good news is, likely it is just a phase and your DD will go back to her normal self within a few days or a week.

kb&mb · January 2014

We are dealing with this right now too...and usually only at bedtime. He doesn't cry the whole time but it's taking him longer to fall asleep....before he would be out in less than 5 mins but now it's up to 30-40 mins and he lays still and quiet and then is up and crying...back and forth. I'm hoping it's just a phase.

He is doing 1 nap now (usually 11-1:30). Right after his first birthday, he started fighting his 2nd nap and it was making the afternoon/evening terrible since he was only taking a morning nap...so we dropped it.

BLPL101 · January 2014

We are dealing with it too. DD is fighting the second nap, but she's cranky with only 1 nap so I'm not going to drop it yet.

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