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Re: 18 month sleep regression support thread - Part 2
« Reply #225 on: May 08, 2013, 01:13:46 am »
Hi ladies!  I've trimmed DD's nap back to 1.5 hrs from 12:30-2.  But she resisted BT again tonight and didn't go down until 9.  She did sleep in a bit until 8:00 this morning.  Do you all recommend waking in the morning to create a more set routine?  I've always just adjusted the rest of the day from the wake up time.  Thoughts?

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Re: 18 month sleep regression support thread - Part 2
« Reply #226 on: May 09, 2013, 19:15:55 pm »
Do you all recommend waking in the morning to create a more set routine?  I've always just adjusted the rest of the day from the wake up time.  Thoughts?
The only time I wake in the morning is when the nap has to happen at a certain time, i.e. it must be between 12-2pm on the days that Claire has school (it's usually 12:30-2).  Otherwise, I do the same and adjust the day, cutting nap if need be to preserve BT. 



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Re: 18 month sleep regression support thread - Part 2
« Reply #227 on: May 09, 2013, 19:51:31 pm »
Well E stayed overnight with my mum & dad last night and pulled two 2-hour + naps and an 11hr night with a few murmurs but no NWs! How does this happen??!! I've been wracking my brain as to what's  different there - apart from no me and DH (I really hope it's not that) or is she just being a pickle and playing us when she's at home. Gah!
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Re: 18 month sleep regression support thread - Part 2
« Reply #228 on: May 10, 2013, 00:34:39 am »
Hi Ladies -
Just wanted to say hi and jump aboard - DS will be 20 mos next week and I thought we had dodged this bullet but his sleep went to pot last week - trouble settling at BT and NWs - and short nights as a result.  I've read over the last few pages of the thread and I recognize some familiar faces from the 2:1 transition support thread so hello again to all of you!   :)

FX we get through this quickly!  Does anyone know if there are any other sleep regressions after this one???  (please please say no!!!  :)  )

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Re: 18 month sleep regression support thread - Part 2
« Reply #229 on: May 10, 2013, 05:14:15 am »
Hi ladies. Aud is 18.5 months, goes to sleep no prob, no nap resistance (so far), just waking earlier and earlier. 5.30 today. Not ideal as she shares a room with her brother and he doesn't deserve to be woken up at this time so I'm sitting in a dark room with my phone, trying to keep her quiet until the Groclock changes. Bah. NWs I can handle, but don't make me start the day in the 5 hour.





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Re: 18 month sleep regression support thread - Part 2
« Reply #230 on: May 10, 2013, 23:51:36 pm »
I'm with you Anna.  Anything before 6 am is too early for me!  (Why 5:55 seems SO much earlier than 6:05 I don't know!)  So are you doing EBTs to keep OT away, or does that just move the day earlier and encourage the EWs?  I'm not sure if we should be messing w/ DS's routine to try to make up for the lost sleep, or if it is better to stick to the usual times during the regression . . .

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Re: 18 month sleep regression support thread - Part 2
« Reply #231 on: May 11, 2013, 00:51:51 am »
Hi Anna!  Good to see you again- but so sorry for the EW's!!

Are you going to try to trim her nap a bit?  E was doing a few EW, but not as early as 5.  Yikes!!

I'm trying to gradually wake the kids earlier and I've adjusted her nap to 1hr 30 min.  Nights have improved.  I just need to get bt back to around 8:00 instead of 8:45.

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Re: 18 month sleep regression support thread - Part 2
« Reply #232 on: May 11, 2013, 01:44:08 am »
Post ear infection, much happier boy, thank heavens, I *think* maybe we are also past the worst of this regression... ( I hope I don't jinx it!!!) Still NW but not hysterical and screaming/fighting me during them. My LO is also a new stander-upper and I keep lying him down so not entirely sure he can do it himself? A question re naps tho (perhaps I should post in another thread?) If LO takes Ages to fall asleep at nap time and is not seeming tired before nap time do you think I should try a longer A time in the morning? Yesterday he slept for 3hrs (!!!!) but woke up quite grumpy. Not sure what that means or if it contributed to last nights NW's?

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Re: 18 month sleep regression support thread - Part 2
« Reply #233 on: May 11, 2013, 15:59:13 pm »
Well more strangeness here - e short napped yesterday as we were out and she managed 45 mins ish in her buggy, so I was prepared for her to be tired. But, she fell asleep into her bedtime story. He slept heavily for the first time of the night but was very restless from 2am onwards. She woke at 8.20 but was obviously very tired. By 10.30 she was crying and asking to go to bed, so we let her and had to get her up 3 hrs later. Again, she was unsettled in sleep and didn't seem rested when we got her up. She didn't seem well but calpol helped. Can teething make this much impact on sleep? Craziness.
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Re: 18 month sleep regression support thread - Part 2
« Reply #234 on: May 12, 2013, 18:49:54 pm »
Can teething make this much impact on sleep?
It can IME....what teeth is she working on?




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Re: 18 month sleep regression support thread - Part 2
« Reply #235 on: May 12, 2013, 21:06:26 pm »
Well no need to worry about teeth, she started having uncontrollable shivering episodes and excessive yawning yesterday so ended up at the out of hours docs with a bad ear infection. On antibiotics now, but this does go some way to explaining some strangeness of that last week. Permanently on calpol now while her fever is still so high, hopefully it'll pass soon. Hugs everyone else x
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Re: 18 month sleep regression support thread - Part 2
« Reply #236 on: May 12, 2013, 21:10:02 pm »
awww (((hugs))) for little E, hope she is much better soon. Was going to say sounds like she's coming down with something.

We're just plodding along. Not so bad apart from the challenges of two kids in one room. We were out at friends' today and A had a very late, very short nap (although I was actually amazed she fell asleep at all). Then she got a HUGE second wind at bedtime and was giddy, whooping, giggling, larking about in her cot at bedtime instead of going to sleep. So 'early' bed actually became a late bed (in cot for 6.20, asleep 7.20). Hey ho. Better get to bed myself because no doubt tomorrow will be an early one.





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Re: 18 month sleep regression support thread - Part 2
« Reply #237 on: May 12, 2013, 21:16:19 pm »
Thanks Anna, it's always so obvious with hindsight isn't it. Such weirdness with E is usually illness.

I hope you get more sleep than you're anticipating x
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Re: 18 month sleep regression support thread - Part 2
« Reply #238 on: May 22, 2013, 18:28:13 pm »
Oh my gosh. I have no idea what has happened but I feel like ive been hit by a truck. My daughter has sttn since 7ish months. She's now 17 months and I have no idea what's going on.

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Re: 18 month sleep regression support thread - Part 2
« Reply #239 on: May 28, 2013, 12:32:42 pm »
(((Hugs))) lilasmum, think we're here too.  Nights still intact but getting lots of BT silliness and some nap time resistance too.  She's normally out straight away when I put her down, but now she's rolling around chatting for 15 mins or more at nap time and up to an hour at bedtime.  I've pushed nap and BT a bit later with no real change.  Her language is exploding though - trying to copy everything, has a good 30 plus words now plus lots of new signs.  Canines all through so at least they aren't the culprit now!  How are things for you?