18 month sleep regression support thread - Part 2

[Haribo2012]

We are totally the same, have a week of rubbish naps, BT crying then a good week, then rubbish again! We had ear infection followed 2 weeks later by chest infection! Can't tell if canines are en route but NW are regular and we've been without them for a good while!!
I'm blaming wonder week as DS learning loads of new stuff x

[Skadiver13]

Ugh. i wish I could blame a wonderweek. He's still not talking at all. I do know a canine just popped through. But I just don't know why he fights BT so much. It's exhausting and i"m having to rock him to sleep because I can't to wiwo while he's congested and not feeling well. I'm so exhausted. Sorry you ladies are having trouble too.

[Haribo2012]

My LO doesn't say much mostly points and says yeah or mama! I've slept on the floor next to cot for 2 nights from 4.30am! He seems to just want to hold my hand bless x

[My little Liam]

Ugh!!! How much longer will this last?!? I am losing my mind!!! This kid WILL NOT NAP!!!! And when he finally does it isnt longer than 1hr20! Most night are ok with only short NW if any but we do get EW almost every day! He is so OT by now i dont know what to do!! 

[amateursuch]

My Little Liam - I'm with you! Rubbish naps, early wakes and for us, long NWs too. Its miserable. And its been going on forever for us...

[Skadiver13]

I hear you. Right now we are getting Good naps but EW and CRAZY BT shennanigans. He will NOT let me leave the room at BT. Naps are ok but last night I had had enough of stanidng over his crib with my hand on his butt for 30min while he plays around so I did wiwo for 30min and he made himself so upset he threw up. Seriously? So then I had to revert back to helping he was just so upset I was afraid he'd throw up his whole dinner. Trying again tonight but jeez he's just 17M how long does this last.

[My little Liam]

So we had a 2.5hr nap yesterday! I was so happy, no nap fighting and slept great..and then a 10hr night
I guess i cant complain since he went down easily and slept through...

I remember reading on another thread that during SR LO's sleep needs decrease to around 12-12.5hrs per day. I am wondering though, should i cap his nap at 1.5hrs so his night is longer? Or leave things as they are and they will eventually sort themselves out? I al afraid his OT will get worse on short nights? But if i nap cap he could get OT too??? I remember reading something that zacsmumme said about that i think??
If i do nap cap, how do i know things are back to normal and i can stop capping??

[Haribo2012]

I think we have a growth spurt in the mix too.....eating loads but now waking with a poo at 5am and not wanting to go back to sleep!!!
And clocks change this weekend so that will be 4am poop!!
At least BT fight gone and mostly stays asleep till 5am!
Urghh so sick of poop lol

[My little Liam]

Well L just fell asleep in the car this morning after 3.5hr A. I guess i will give him 20 min and then try for our regular nap time but i foresee nap resistance BIG TIME!!

[Skadiver13]

That's a good question. Should i cap his nap at 1:45? See if that helps?

[Lindsay27]

Oh ladies...what is going on!?  Honest to goodness!  He goes to bed with no issues, but we are getting either lots of short NWs or really loooong NWs.  Last night he was so hysterical while I was trying to do PD at 1am he started banging his head off the side of the crib   Naps on weekends are complete junk too.  Sigh...when does it end?  He's been working on his top 2 molars for about a month and a half and those are about halfway through, and his bottom molar just cut on the weekend, so I'm sure that is not helping at all.

And...is anyone getting SA that is out of this world!?  I feel like he is 8 months old again and I can't leave a room without him going bananas. 

[Haribo2012]

^^^^ all of above but we have molars!! Happy as larry on min then meltdown the next!

[Skadiver13]

I have accepted that I can't leave him at bt he just freaks out and no amount of wiwo is going to change that. I don't know how much longer this will go on given he just turned 17 2 weeks ago and it's been going on for more than a month. What I can't handle are the 4 or 5am wake ups which make NO SENSE and refusal to go back to sleep.

[Haribo2012]

Totally with u on the 4am WU, this morning 4.30am totally refused sleep until 6am then had to get up at 6.30 for nursery and work! He must be shattered but seems to be coping well! Can't wait to WU at 7am one day and he's still asleep.....we can dream lol x

[Skadiver13]

I hate it when i'm at playgroup and a kid his exact age is sleeping 8-8... argh then the mom looks at me like it's something I'm doing wrong. What does your lo do when he wakes up that early? He just cries and screams if I do wiwo and once he's up he's up there is no putting him back down.