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Yes it's real and yes molars play a factor. My son teethed his 2 year molars off and on for months and it was awful.

https://sleepcoachsarah.wordpress.com/2015/10/14/the-2-year-old-sleep-regression-they-dont-call-it-the-terrible-twos-for-nothing/

DD started fighting all sleep right before she turned two (she already had her 2 year molars). It would cycle between refusing nap, refusing to go to bed, and waking up at night (lucky never all three at once!). It's been 3 months now and she's mostly gotten better. She's settled on a routine of skipping nap MTW at daycare, short naps RF at daycare, and long naps at home on weekends. Falls asleep around 8 when she doesn't nap, 8:45-9 when she does, and wakes up between 7:30 and 8 in the morning.

When she was first fighting nap we'd try to get her to sleep any way we could (stroller, car) if the crib didn't work out. Now we just put her in the crib and if she falls asleep, great. If she doesn't, she plays in the crib until she gets mad (usually 45 minutes-1 hour). At bedtime we've had periods of having to stay in the room with her, holding her hand, singing songs outside of her door, and just about everything else. Now we put her down, tell her one story and then go to our bedroom where we can yell down the hall to talk to her and generally have to go back in 1-3 times to give her water, books, etc. The night wakings never lasted more than a week at a time, so we just went in and did whatever we had to to get her to go back to sleep and they phased out after a few days. Good luck!

We had a terrible sleep regression right around two. Our son would go to sleep without issue but would wake up at 3 / 4 / 5 a.m. and not go back to sleep. It was terrible!

@Mrs. Turtle: I just want to commiserate. My 2-year old is going through this right now as well, and it's his bottom 2 molars that are coming in. He was a nightmare last night and was not my normal, happy, sweet little man. Teeth wreak havoc on these poor kiddos and they seriously lash out. DS2 only has one more molar to go and then I'm done with teething FOREVER! I can't wait. Lots of luck to you and hope you all get some sleep soon!

Mine will be 2 in four weeks and he’s a hot mess with sleep. Solidarity sister!

I think we are *fingers crossed* just getting over this hump with my newly 2 year old. She was taking an hour to go to bed - lots of screaming and “one more song” requests. At its worst, she was waking up at 4 am and demanding more songs to lay back down. So tired!

Hard to tell since we also had a baby when my first turned 2, but yes sleep was crazy for a while there!

@Mrs. Turtle: So many days of 5 am wake ups - we have 3 weeks until he’s two. Then he’s exhausted by 6 pm and wants to go to bed and the whole thing starts all over!!