18 month sleep regression 😭? Is it a thing!

My little girl is 17 and a half months and over a week ago, we did 6 nights in a row completely sleeping through! Sunday night she had a bad night due to a high fever, which turned out to be an ear infection along with a cough and a cold! However, since Sunday, we must have had max 2 hours sleep a night! I blamed it on her being ill at the beginning of the week, but last night, she did 8-10.30 then was awake until 3am, up again at 5 and back down until 8! She just wants to be awake and play, even though I can see she's so tired! She went off her food earlier in the week too and still isn't fussed, bit drinking milk and water fine! I'm at my wits end, I don't think I can do any more nights not sleeping! 😭

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Heya! You are not alone, apparently after the 4months nightmare, this is the next worst sleep regression our little ones face. My son(18m) is also awake for 2, sometimes 4 hours in the middle of the night. It’s terrible but shouldn’t last too long apparently 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️hitting almost 4 weeks over here that this is going on, hoping it will stop soon. Running on zero fuel at the moment! Stay strong, we got this 💪🏽🙏🏼

@Ananda omg you're 4 weeks in 😭! This explains a lot, thank you so much! It's only been 5 days for us! We've been awake between about 5 and 6 hours, so hopefully it will reduce too!
I hope it comes to an end for you super soon ❤️❤️

18 month sleep regression is HARD 😂 I don’t want to ruin your day but my little one went a solid month of disrupted nights and 5am starts when he went through it. It was awful 😂 he’s back to sleeping through the night 9 times out of 10 now though so there is light at the end of the tunnel! 🤞

Same here!!! My son also has a double ear infection and last week had a sinus infection... we've been doing 1030, midnight to 3am and then sometimes a quick wake at 5 and sleep till 7 or 8... I started sleeping in the bed with him. He's in a floor bed now so I can do this. It helps a lot. I did this with my oldest too and as soon as the regression was over, he was back to normal :) and I better sleeper!!!

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