Anna's been hit or miss this week on going to sleep. She used to love night night, but the past week has been rough. Some nights it's her normal sleeping routine and she plays/sings while falling asleep in her crib, other nights she stands and screams while we feel bad and watch her on the video monitor. We need her to get to bed no later than 8pm. She just needs her sleep. We know she is sleepy. She just doesn't want us to leave the room. It's been the same for naps, too. We hate it when we let her cry herself to sleep. It's sad. Doesn't last longer than 15 min, and we do go in once to let her know we hear her but it's bedtime. But still, she's such a happy girl, we hate that such a supposedly a peaceful time can be hard. It's obvious to us it's just separation anxiety. She just wants to be with us. I'm not blaming anything but the age I guess. I have read that 18 months hits a pretty big sleep regression due to huge cognitive leaps. I guess she's right on schedule! Sorry, baby...hopefully it's just a phase. These kind of things usually are. But it would be wonderful if it was a sign of teething. She's been early/on schedule for all of them but it's about time for the canines now. I'm not seeing anything funky in there, though.
Interesting she naps well at school, and now thinking about it, the two days she's been home with us this week as been the tougher nights getting to sleep....hmmmm....
Good God, what if she starts waking up for us in the middle of the night? Nooo, it can't happen, can it???
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