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Offline Loafie

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2.5 year old sleep troubles
« on: October 10, 2014, 02:23:52 am »
Hi ladies
I haven't posted on here about my Los sleep for over a year since it's been overall pretty great :)
He has very very rarely had nws , except over the 18 month sleep regression. His main problems have always been short naps and ew but these have sorted themselves out for the most part over the last year.
Problem is , over the last month or so , we have had increasing nws. Started off as one every couple of days and now we are at 2-3 per night , almost every night :( we have a 10 month old who doesn't consistently sleep through, so needless to say , we are exhausted  and desperate to have our wonderful night sleeper back. On non nw days , he is tending to ew abit but nothing like the crazy 5 ams we had for months.
Current easy is

Wake 6.15-6.45 am
Nap 1.15-1.30 pm for 1 hr to 1.5 hr ( not capped)
Bed 7.15-7.30 pm

Asleep within minutes for both bed and naps.
No nap resistance. All molars are out.

He is a really active , energetic boy and is exhausted come nap time.
On days where we don't have nws, he wakes closer to 6am

Is this the beginning of 1-0? Or is there a sleep regression around this age?
He wakes crying out for us in the night and we go in , quietly tell him to go back to sleep and he is really easy to resettle. He then does this 2-3 times hourly 11.30 pm and 3 am:( :( He tells me the next morning that he wanted mummy and daddy... Almost like separation anxiety ???

Any thoughts or advice on how to manage this would be much appreciated.
Sophie

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Re: 2.5 year old sleep troubles
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2014, 04:00:46 am »
I don't know if there is a sleep regression, but my dd is 2.5, and she is also going through NWs, EWs, and fighting BT. I've talked with a few other moms here with LOs the same age that are seeing the same thing. My dd is asking at NWs to sleep with daddy, which we are allowing since I'm sleeping with the newborn, so maybe there is some SA going on.
Needless to say, I have no advice for you! Sorry. :( just some hugs and knowing that others are there with you.


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Re: 2.5 year old sleep troubles
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2014, 06:54:31 am »
Yeah, my DS is 32 months and has been EW for the last couple of weeks. Just trying to roll with it.
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Re: 2.5 year old sleep troubles
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2014, 09:19:33 am »
Thanks so much for the input ladies...
Yeah, guess I will just have to roll with it ...
Was mainly just curious whether 1-0 manifested itself this way rather than the more common nap and bt resistance... My gut tells me it's developmental though.
Any other btdt very welcome :)

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Re: 2.5 year old sleep troubles
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2014, 09:30:06 am »
I wondered the same too. Tried NND twice and it was a total disaster even with 10hour days. Took a week to recover from each time I tried. Then tried cutting nap to 45mins, it worked for one day but made him terribly OT on consecutive days. So I finally gave up tweaking this week and went back to set nap and BT and hope he eventually sorts himself out.

Good luck!
Jacqueline

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Re: 2.5 year old sleep troubles
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2014, 08:30:14 am »
Hi!

We had something similiar with R at around 27m. It was pretty hideous - nap time refusal, BT shenanigans, you name it. Once it settled we had a huge language explosion. I think there is something developmentally at play at this age. I have certainly seen a number of posts complaining about the same thing at this age.

We had to ride it out. I stuck as closely up R's routine as she would allow. Brought nap and BT up to 30mins earlier if required. Offered a lot of reassurance (we we're get the the don't  "leave me" "I need you" but ultimately had to Wi/WO when all else failed.

It took time and it's roll tbh but we got through it. It was suggested to me at the time that she may r ready for 1-0 but my gut feeling was that she wasn't so I stuck
With it. You're there and you are in the best place to judge of you LO is ready to
Drop the nap. If you suspect there is something else at play, I'd hold off tinkering with the routine - if when the shenanigans die down you are getting short nights, NW etc which appear UT then that might be the time to re-look the routine

Hth

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Re: 2.5 year old sleep troubles
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2014, 08:49:43 am »
Thanks so much Hena for your input. You're right, I'm not tweeking and just going to ride it out. He definately still needs his naps and the nw are not ut...
We had a no nw night last night, first one in ages so fingers crossed!! But geez, we are tired!!  My 10 month old wakes 5 am ish so it's a tiring time :(
Thanks again !

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Re: 2.5 year old sleep troubles
« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2014, 09:47:20 am »
No worries and GL! X