Anyone else's toddler's sleep gone completely pear-shaped?

There is supposedly a regression around this age, who knows. This is what we are experiencing:

-he keeps delaying bedtime
-wants to say goodnight to everything in his room
-demands for us to stay in his room
-screams the house down if we leave him
-nightwakes that take ages to settle
(Previously slept independently)

Oh and we have a 11month old too who is waking up through the night from all the commotion

How long does this last?
I am running out of patience!

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Similar here too!! It’s driving me crazy! Started to refuse naps at the start of December but he definitely still needs them! So I’ve put it down to that, but a month in I was hoping he would settle in.. when will it end 😰

Yes same here, but it’s because we transitioned him into his toddler bed at the start of Jan. some nights he sleeps through, but he def delays bedtime, asks for a drink/toilet, wants me to stay in his room. Last night he woke at 1.45am & we finally got him to go to sleep in our bed just after 3am…he has never previously slept in our bed. He has comforters, dummy, night light, toniebox & teddies in his bedroom, but seems to want into our bed. He def still needs his naps, but I do think they’re being phased out of you know what I mean. He didn’t nap at all yesterday at nursery & that made his sleep worse it seems! Is your LB in a toddler bed?

Yes but he went in it this time last year which at the time was better. He is in a small double because someone was giving it away for free, which to be fair is better as I can go and sleep in with him which is what I’ve done for the last two nights.

My son has been sick over night the last two nights as well which is weird.

He was exhausted by 3pm yesterday but still didn’t nap! So by 6.30 his behaviour had gone wild! It’s so exhausting isn’t it

Can I ask you all if this was a short lived phase? As my December 22 toddler is currently going through this… 😂

I would say it took my son about 8/9 weeks to settle in properly x

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circumcision

are we circumcising our boys? or leaving that to dad?

Should I be concerned or am I overthinking?

My little boy is 15 months old, he’s recently taken his first steps and he says mamma and dadda and baba (he has said these for months) we’ve filled out the paperwork for his 12-14 month review and it looks like he isn’t meeting many of his milestones.

He doesn’t copy actions, point, clap etc. He doesn’t react when being spoken to, or to his name. He actively avoids eye contact.

He was so unresponsive to sound that we just had his hearing tested concerned he was deaf. They found that he could hear so he is just choosing not to react to any noises or sounds.

Has anyone else had similar experiences with their little ones? Should I be raising this with the health visitor and ask to be assessed for neurodivergent issue or a social communication problem like autism?

I don’t want to just slap a label on him, but I do feel that there are real concerns. All opinions welcome!!

Routines?

When did you start to introduce your baby’s routine? Do they just have a night routine or full day routine? Wondering when I should start this e.g naps at the same time everyday.

Any routines you have that work for you, please let me know them with timestamps. my baby is 6 weeks and just wondering when we should start them?

Does anyone else’s baby spit up breastmilk but not formula?

I’m seriously considering seeing a lactation consultant because I don’t understand why he can’t hold down breastmilk but can formula. I use soy formula since I’ve used it with my daughter and I’m thinking it might be due to not getting milk coming in for a few days so I had no choice but to give him formula, but now even if I take breaks in between feeding him breastmilk to burp or try to mix breastmilk and formula, he spits it up sooo much. I’m ready to just give him just formula because I’m worried about him not eating enough

Reflux

I need some help my baby is 6 weeks old and recently when I try and wind him after his bottle he’s not bring any wind up and just keeps being sick, I’ve tried infacol but that doesn’t seem to be doing much.

Bed time tips for 8 week old

So I literally cannot get my 8 week down to sleep before 11:30pm every night no matter how early we start our routine. We tend to do bath every second night but every night consists of feed, up to bed, into pjs, book, feed to sleep. We could start this routine at 7 and it would still be the case of not selling til 11:30.

She doesn’t nap during the day well, we get a 30 minute in the morning, and a 1 hour in the afternoon only if I’m out the house. She’s never distressed when she’s awake all that time, quite the thing being nosey and having cuddles. She’s EBF and her feeds all through the day are LONG and last from 30-45 mins each feed.

Any tips/advice recommended on how to get to bed earlier or just how to get her to sleep in general.