Nighttime has become a disaster - 20 month old

[aleliap]

Sorry to post a new thread, but I've read through several pages and I'm not quite finding my situation. My child slept beautifully from 6 months to about 14 months. For the last 6 months sleeping has been touch and go. Some nights he sleeps through the night, some nights he wakes up 1-2 times, some nights he wakes up every 2 hours. For the last 2 months nighttime sleeping has been a complete nightmare. He's also started waking up REALLY early (5:30 often).

He has no trouble going down at night and falling asleep by himself. He is on one nap and was sleeping about 2 hours.

An additional wrench in the situation is that I am expecting a new baby in 3 months and have to have a c-section for medical reasons. So, because I won't be able to pick up my toddler for 6 weeks, I've started transitioning him to a toddler bed (I know, he's still so young, but it's the only thing I can think of.) He still has no trouble going down at night in the new bed, though his naps have gone down to 1.25- 1.5 hours...maybe that's normal for his age though?

So, his schedule looks like this:
wake up 5:30/6
nap 11 (sometimes 11:30) - 12:30-1
sleep 6:30/7

he is waking up probably 4 times at night, sometime he gets out of his bed. sometimes not...

please help! both my husband (who's been getting up every night!) and I are at our wit's end!

[*Becky*]

ok well to start with I would forget the toddler bed transition as he is still really young for that...do you not have anyone around who could help you at BT for the first 6-8 weeks after the baby is born? I had a section and DH has to help out quite a bit with lifting etc for the first few weeks.
I do think at this age there is so little impulse control and putting him in a BBB is a recipe for disaster.
Is he teething at all?
So if it were me i would put him back in a cot and then set a nap for about 12pm and see how it goes for about 5 days. What do you think?

[aleliap]

I was thinking the same thing about the toddler bed. I think a good solution could be just doing naps in the bbb and night in the crib (when DH is home). Or do you think that would be too confusing?

I will try to push him to 12 for the nap but he is typically drop dead tired at 11 (prob because he's up at 5:30!).

I think he might be getting his molars because he has all his other teeth and he has been complaining of his mouth hurting the past few days.

I guess I'm just curious why the last few months have been such poor sleep! (pre- toddler bed and teeth)

Thanks for your advice Becky!

[Truly Blessed]

Hi Hun, just popping on with some (Hugs) and wondering how things are going 

x.

[aleliap]

oof! Things are going better, but not great!
We seem to be waking up less at night, possibly because we've successfully moved the naptime to 12:30, possibly because we've started putting him in a sleep sack at night to keep him warmer. But he still wakes up once, possibly twice during the night and at 5:30 every am.

We are trying to do the w2s, but so far limited success. I am thinking of posting another post just to get w2s advice!

thanks for the hugs! they are much needed!

[*Becky*]

Feel free to post about W2S. I have never really done it so not much use.
How long are his naps and what time is BT?

Teeth cause EWings for us.