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18 month old keeps waking in the night crying

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Sallymummy99 · 16/01/2019 17:30

My daughter's sleep has been up and down. We had a really good stint where she slept straight through the night and occasionally she would wake once crying in the night for about a minute and then go back to sleep.

For the last few weeks she has been waking up approx 12am and is stood up in the cot really crying. I have tried stroking her back to sleep but when she goes quiet and still and I creep out the room she just revs up again. So I end up taking her in the spare bed with me and she pretty much goes straight back to sleep. I didn't really want her to get into the habit of getting into bed with me and now its 80% of the time rather than 20% of the time as it was a few months ago.

We were supposed to go away at the weekend to a gig and my parents were going to stop with her but Didn't go in the end as I didn't think it was fair on my parents. They looked after her in Nov when we went away for the night for my birthday and she woke up crying at 11pm and although my mom got her into her bed with her she didn't stop crying for four hours.

Has anyone else gone through this? Have you managed to get them out of it. Hubby thinks we should do cry it out until she cooks out but it's such a heart wrenching thing to do and so tiring on everyone but people say it's better for everyone in the long run. Any advice would be much appreciated.

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secretuser · 24/01/2019 12:34

No advice but I'm going through exactly the same thing.

My DS is 18 months old and has been crying out during the night for a few months but always settled himself after a minute or so. Recently however he's been waking up and screaming, as if terrified or in pain. The only thing that will resettle him is milk, I don't know how to tackle it because the screaming is so bad. When he was younger I did some gentle controlled crying which worked really well and had him self-Serling after one night, but this is completely different.

Is this the 18 month sleep regression do you think? I'm expecting DC2 in April so really hoping he's gone back to his old ways of sleeping through by then!

bluepixie · 24/02/2019 09:10

Any update? Similar here!

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