My daughter is 21 months now. Almost sleeps through the night, but now has been getting up at 5:45 for no reason other than comfort.
I still breast feed her to sleep. I’ve been trying to wean but I’d rather not break her heart or listen to her scream and cry.
The question is more about a sleep regression at this stage? Anyone else dealing with early wake ups?
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Omg we've been dealing with it but it's bad for us. My daughter would go to sleep at 8 or 8:30 and either sleep through the night or wake up once. Lately she won't sleep until 12am and wake up again at 3 and 5. I was so tired last night I gave her some melatonin but I guess that didn't work I'm writing this as she's awake for the 3rd time tonight

5:45 is a fairly regular wake up time for my 21 month old! We breastfeed too and I’m sure that’s part of it…. But likewise I’m not ready to break her heart

Hit us really badly, my LO (22m) is or should I say was amazing sleeper 8pm-8:30am with no wake ups was a norm in our household + 2h nap during the day. About 4 days ago it went to ss, he basically lost ability to sleep that’s the only way I can describe it 🤷🏼♀️😩 first two days he would only sleep with us in bed so we though ok separation anxiety phase, and then last 2 nights he literally doesn’t sleep. Both nights I tried to settle with him in guest room but he’s tossing and turning we got the whole 2.45h of sleep last night 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩 and no nap can someone please switch him back ?! We have a 6m old on the house as well sooo it’s supper hard

Yesss it’s been hard you are not alone I have a 3 month old as well, I’m exhausted 😭

Yesss. I want to scream

We have boy/ girl twins. Went through our first sketti regression with our boy at 18mo and now going through it with our girl at almost 21mo. She used to be our best sleeper abs now she doesn't want to go to bed and then wakes up standing and crying in her crib at either 3, 4, or 5 and will only go back to sleep if we're holding her in the rocker or if we put her in the bed with us. She's 3 nights in a row sleeping with us starting early morning. 🤦♀️
And then on top of that, we have a 4yo who gets up to go potty and we have a hard time getting her to go back to her bed. She always tries to sleep with us too!

This just happened to us and our son was waking up at 4 am every day for 2+ weeks, then started waking up at midnight and took over an hour to put back to sleep. We ended up shortening his daytime nap to 90 min and moving his bedtime up. So now it’s up at 7 am, nap 12-1:30, bedtime at 6:30. So two 5-hour wake windows. Now he’s back to sleeping through the night. Every baby is different but this worked for us. Hang in there, it’s temporary but so rough 🫠

I am going through the exact same thing! My son still wakes up 1 to 3 times during the night and all he wants is to breastfeed back to sleep. It’s so hard weaning him because he scream cries which breaks my heart ♥️

my girl s reams and cries until she vomits she gets so worked up if I don’t give her the boob! She scratches me and pulls my hair. It’s so sad and heartbreaking I give in!
We will be breastfeeding until she goes to college I guess🫢