18month old Nw

[scucci1979]

Alyssa hardly gives me nws but when she does, I suspect SA or pain. Normally when she wakes at night she will drift back to sleep quickly. Last night, for instance, she woke at 1am and didn't fall back asleep until 2:15am.  She was calling and crying for me and when I went she stood up wanting to be picked up. She would fall instantly asleep on my shoulder but when I put her back down she would call for me again. I gave her meds then sat in the rocking chair shushing her while she settled in her crib. She would call out to me every so often to make sure if I was there. Do you guys suspect SA here? Am I doing the right thing by sitting in the chair?
We fully weaned off of Prevacid and just recently got all her molars.

routine
wake 7am
nap 12:30-2:15pm( I wake her)
bed and asleep by 7:50pm

[Tweakster]

It sounds like discomfort - that's what our NW usually are and always have been.  Does she have her canines yet?

[scucci1979]

nope.
I just glimpsed in her mouth and saw one of her canines ready to cut. (I hope)

[scucci1979]

is this normal?

She has developed SA at bt and naps have gone wonky again. I have to stay in the rocking chair until she falls asleep.   

[*Becky*]

we had bad SA when DS was teething his first molars so def could be. Hugs xx

[Tweakster]

It was completely normal for us during teeth.  Also you are packing right?  Any kind of change in the home, some kids are super sensitive to it.

(((hugs))) honestly I never worried about the rocking - one day it just stopped working as a method and we gave the chair to my BFF to use with her newborn . It just phased out on its own but I was grateful for some method of AP at the time.

[scucci1979]

we are packing. I totally forgot about that. 

[clairebear79]

Sabs - do you think she could also be a bit UT?  I know her nap is capped already, but how long has she been napping at 12.30pm now? 

We got rid of our EW for a month & O's been doing 7am WU, 12.30-2.30 nap & 7.30 BT & the day he turned 18months he's suddenly started waking at 6-6.30am again.  I am capping his nap by pushing out the start time to 12.45pm & will continue to wake him at 2.30pm.  I suspect we need to cap the nap at 1.5hrs.  We're only on day 2 & b/c of the earlier WU he's OT now, but still I'm hoping that a slightly later (& shorter) nap may help things long term.

Are you moving house?

[scucci1979]

Not sure if it is UT. Could be?  We have been doing a 12:30pm nap for a while now. I normally have to wake her in the am. She seems to like to have her last A the longest. She also asks to go to her bed for nap so she can play for a while. She likes to jump in her crib for 10mins.  UT makes sense, b/c she is waking up half way through her nap. Capping to 1.5hour could be the next thing to do.

we are moving houses. Not far from our home-about 5mins away, so we will still be in the same neighbourhood, but different park area. My girls know how to get to parks around this house. We started packing and we have been bringing them to our new house. It is not bricked yet, but all the walls are up and we have showed them around.  I was also going to make the rooms similar to the ones they have now. 

[scucci1979]

this has to be the 18month regression. She napped for 1.5hours and come bt she wanted me to stay in her room. She kept calling my name every minute. Wi/wo was making her cry so I sat in the rocking chair until she fell asleep. It is taking longer to drift off to sleep now.

[Tweakster]

Yep I do recall going through this stuff with F.  We just had to ride it out

(((hugs)))

[cath~]

Hi Sabs,
No advice as such I'm afraid, but just wanted to say that I'm going through pretty much the same thing with my LO at the moment too. 
Although NWs have eased off the last few nights, she still wants me to stay with her til she's asleep at BT and naptime (although fine if some one else puts her down).  She's cutting her last canine and the other three made her more clingy too so I think, for L, the cause is teething but also a big dose of developmental SA.
In the past, when she's been 'difficult' to put down (always due to teething and/or SA), WIWO has worked fine, she's not got *too* upset and it's not taken *too* long.  But this time it's quite different - she just won't fall asleep without me (if I am the one who puts her down).
In the birthclubs some one told me SA often peaks around 18 months.  I googled this and found lots of sites saying this too.  So, for now, I'm planning on giving her whatever reassurance she needs to fall asleep (usually she just wants me to stay with her until asleep, but once she's drowsy I don't need to be holding/touching her at all, just standing by her) and will then use GW/WIWO (whatever works best) once this SA phase is over.
Hope things improve for us both soon!

[scucci1979]

thanks for the tips.
She was a little better tonight. I did a longer wd with her and told her that I was going to leave the room. She fussed then went to sleep. it probably went easier tonight b/c she was extra tired.