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OMG please help with my 18 month old DD
« on: September 28, 2013, 05:41:51 am »
Ok so my DD has slept great since 7 months old. Has always ate great always fell to sleep on her own

Her routine used to be:

Wake: never sure exact time as she would wake and play for nearly an hour in her cot. But I'm expecting between 6-7am
7am 4oz bottle
8am breakfast
12pm lunch
1pm 1.5-2 hour nap (read a story lay her down and she just rolls around until she gets comfy and sleeps)
5:30-6pm dinner
6:00-6:30 bath
7-7:30 7 oz bottle
7:30-8 bed (just a little read whilst she is in cot and then I walk out say night and again she rolls might whinge a little and then falls asleep)

Routine is exactly the same but now when I put her down to sleep she screams when I lay her down and leave her. If I have hand on her back she is fine but as soon as I move it she screams. This is nap time and bed time. She also crys as soon as she wakes up won't play at all in her cot.

Iv so far resorted to just staying in her room with my back to her until she settles and falls asleep. But I just can't understand why this has gone back to square one. Iv always been so lucky since I sleep trained her.

She was ill a week ago but only for 2 days and we didn't change anything she even still slept fine then.

This has been 3 nights so far please please help!!! What have I done wrong????  ::)

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Re: OMG please help with my 18 month old DD
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2013, 05:43:38 am »
Welcome to the 18 month sleep regression ;)

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« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2013, 06:25:29 am »
Thank you very much x

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Re: OMG please help with my 18 month old DD
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2013, 04:16:24 am »
Best of luck hun.. it's a bumpy one ;)  Best advice, just stay consistent with nap and bedtime even though it's likely to seem that LO doesn't need nearly as much sleep as they have for a while... here it was 6 weeks of short naps and bedtime shenanigans... and then it just all came right within a couple of days like nothing had happened.  DD was down about an hour - 90 mins of sleep every single day, but she never got OT.  Was weird!