DS (22mos) was on the cusp of being a consistent through-the-night sleeper. He'd generally sleep through from bedtime (8-8:30-ish) until about 5am, need to be briefly resettled (nothing big... just reassure him briefly and rub his back for a few minutes until he drifted back off), and then sleep until 7.
And now it's all going down the crapper.
Last night, for example... fought bedtime, hard. I was in with him for 15 minutes, then we switched out and DH was in with him for like a half hour. He woke up at 1am, and screamed at me for ten minutes before falling back asleep. He woke up at 3am and screamed at DH for ten minutes before falling back asleep. He woke up at 5:30 and screamed at me before falling back asleep... and then woke up again at 6 to do the same thing to DH.
If we ask him what's wrong, or what he needs (he's pretty verbal), we get either a nonsense answer (one time last night it was "Purple truck! Want a purple truck!" as he's screaming and struggling to keep himself upright b/c he was so tired... and anyway, he doesn't have a purple truck) or he requests to sleep with us. Which would be fine, except when he sleeps with us, he sleeps even more poorly, and as a result so do we.
He's been nightweaned since 18mos, and a month ago we recently finished off the weaning process because I'm pregnant and couldn't even imagine tandem nursing (I get all touched out nursing ONE)... I wanted him to have enough time between weaning and new baby to make it not seem like such a personal offense, you know? He took weaning pretty well and hasn't mentioned it in weeks. He's not teething (molars are IN
), we're not going through any big changes (well, the baby's coming, but he doesn't have that kind of awareness yet and our day-to-day life hasn't changed at all).
He's in the middle of a language boom, sort of... but in a sense he's been "booming" for months.
I can't figure out what's causing this. Please someone tell me your 2 year old backslid and it was only temporary. Or give me bad news. Either way. Commiserate.
And now it's all going down the crapper.
Last night, for example... fought bedtime, hard. I was in with him for 15 minutes, then we switched out and DH was in with him for like a half hour. He woke up at 1am, and screamed at me for ten minutes before falling back asleep. He woke up at 3am and screamed at DH for ten minutes before falling back asleep. He woke up at 5:30 and screamed at me before falling back asleep... and then woke up again at 6 to do the same thing to DH.
If we ask him what's wrong, or what he needs (he's pretty verbal), we get either a nonsense answer (one time last night it was "Purple truck! Want a purple truck!" as he's screaming and struggling to keep himself upright b/c he was so tired... and anyway, he doesn't have a purple truck) or he requests to sleep with us. Which would be fine, except when he sleeps with us, he sleeps even more poorly, and as a result so do we.
He's been nightweaned since 18mos, and a month ago we recently finished off the weaning process because I'm pregnant and couldn't even imagine tandem nursing (I get all touched out nursing ONE)... I wanted him to have enough time between weaning and new baby to make it not seem like such a personal offense, you know? He took weaning pretty well and hasn't mentioned it in weeks. He's not teething (molars are IN
), we're not going through any big changes (well, the baby's coming, but he doesn't have that kind of awareness yet and our day-to-day life hasn't changed at all).He's in the middle of a language boom, sort of... but in a sense he's been "booming" for months.
I can't figure out what's causing this. Please someone tell me your 2 year old backslid and it was only temporary. Or give me bad news. Either way. Commiserate.
