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Naptime/Bedtime Battles

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I'm going to try to make this as short as possible. Up until about four days ago, DD was a pretty good napper and slept great at bedtime. She started screaming at naptime and got all upset. Then, the same thing started happening at bedtime. She's not hungry or thirsty. She just wants to be held constantly. It's to the point where she's not falling asleep until 2 to 3 hours past her normal bedtime. I had thought maybe she was trying to stop taking a nap, so I tried that yesterday. She did perfectly fine throughout the day and slept great last night (went to bed with no problems). Today, that didn't work. She woke up crying for me again about an hour after she went to sleep. I rocked her for a little while, then put her back in the crib. And now she's crying for me again. The cry is off and on. I have a feeling she's doing it to get me in the room, because she can cut it off so quickly. I really don't know what to do to try and help her. It's killing me to hear her cry for me, but I know she's capable of going to sleep on her on. I just have a hard time letting her cry and I don't know how long to let her cry before I go in there.

I called her pediatrician's office about it, because I was concerned that it could be an ear infection or something else. They said it sounds like she's just scared to be in her room by herself and for me to try to relax her as much as possible before going to bed. I don't see any new teeth coming in, but her canine teeth are due to come in at anytime. I'm wondering if maybe they're just making their way through and that's hurting her. I've heard those hurt the most.

Sorry this is so long. I just don't know what else to try. Getting less sleep is really starting to catch up with her, but she still refuses to sleep.
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Re: Naptime/Bedtime Battles

  • pb_bridepb_bride member
    DS tends to be much more clingy and have ramped-up separation anxiety when he is teething.  If he wakes up MOTN crying and screaming, I send DH in to soothe him.  That works well, because if I tried to go in, DS would just scream and cry for me as soon as I leave the room. (CIO doesn't work even though he was sleep trained early on. He just gets more hysterical.)

    I SAH however, so if that happens at nap time, what had worked for us is for me to sit on the floor next to his crib.  DS wants to hold my hand so I let him do that through the slats.  When he is sound asleep, I remove my hand from his grip and quietly leave his room.

    It is just a phase, your dd will go back to her normal sleep patterns soon,
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  • ashiscuteashiscute member
    It's normal for kids to go through sleep regressions even if they aren't teething.  18 mos is primtetime for one.  When it happened with DD I had to nap with her for a few days (I SAH).  The first night she slept with us.  After that we just spent much longer holding and comforting her before bedtime.  It took probably 2 weeks for her to be back to a normal schedule.  

    If you think it might be an issue take her in and have her ears checked.  But know that all kids, no matter how well they sleep, go through regressions and bouts of separation anxiety.  She probably just needs a bit more love for now.  Good luck
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  • Jbunny100Jbunny100 member
    DS just started doing this 4 days ago as well. I think it is teething because he has 4 molars still making their way down. Last week he went down so easily for a nap. I honestly thought we were turning a corner since it would typically take almost 45 minutes to get him to sleep. Then 4 days ago he started fighting the nap and taking 30 minutes to fall asleep. He tends to walk from his nap after an hour screaming/crying, but he can fall back asleep if I let him cry for a bit (no more than 7 minutes). If he is crying for more than 7 minutes I go back in there and rock him back to sleep. At night we are also running into issues where he keeps waking multiple times but falls back asleep. I figure it must be teething.

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  • Beth.1212Beth.1212 member
    I'd suggest Walk in / Walk out. Good luck!
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