Waking up crying

[kumber]

My 17 month old has woken up crying/whinging the last few nights and has struggled to get to sleep in the first instance at bedtime, again due to crying. Nothing about the night routine has changed and he's not teething as far as I can tell. Could this be sleep regression or something else?

 

[Birdie]

My son's sleep went to pot at around 17mo as he hit the 18month sleep regression (have a Google - it's a biggie!)..... They stayed rubbish until he was about 22/23 months old... he also got his molars in that period!

With the bedtime battles I find it's usually when my son is on a nap transition and he usually ends up needing a bit less daytime sleep so he's tired at bedtime again. Does your son nap much?

 

[kumber]

He has about an hour or two, I've tried putting him down for two naps but it's not happening so he just has the one. He cries when he's put down for that too but he clearly needs it.

 

[kumber]

I'm really struggling, when I'm putting him down he's sobbing from tiredness and really struggles to settle and sleep. I have no idea what to do, none of the usual stuff is working!!!

 

[Colleen1988]

I know you don't like "self soothing" but I did gentle sleep training with isaac, so when he cries I go in let him know I'm there by talking softly and I walk out, I leave him for 5 mins and go back in, I did that until he stopped crying and fell asleep! I did it every night with him and now he goes to bed, sobs for a few second and just falls asleep! He wakes in the middle of the night, usually at 4am ish, I hear him talking to himself for maybe a minute and he goes back to sleep on his own! He's such a happy baby so the sleep training hasn't done him any harm and he self soothes to sleep! Maybe just try something out of your comfort zone and see if it works, if you don't like it don't carry on with it xxx

 

[kumber]

This is for Riley, not Malachy chicken but thank you up until the last few weeks he's been fine going to bed since about 9 months but he's been teething like mad and I'm wondering if this is also the huge sleep regression they have at 16-18 months so just wanted some confirmation I guess.

 

[Colleen1988]

Ahh ok hun... I have no experience with older babies, im dreading sleep regressions lol! Hope you get some helpful info xxx