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Definitely 5-7 months. He was up 5-6 times a night and I was in my first trimester with my pregnancy and was SO tired. Around 7.5 months that all changed completely and he's been STTN for the most part ever since. We never had to sleep train - I'm so grateful for that. We were about ready to when it all changed.

10-12 months was really hard- he figured out how to stand up and started fighting bedtime. I would sit in the doorway of his room for 30 minutes to an hour with him screaming until he learned how to fall asleep on his own.

Now we are transitioning out of the crib- I'm scared, I'm really scared!

2-3 years. Toddler sleep is a whole different monster. So exhausting...

Month 9-10 was really awful. With teething, crawling, standing, IDK what else. But it was worse than NB stage because I couldn't just bounce or nurse her back to sleep with these wake-ups.

My DD is only 16 months but so far it was worst her first 10 weeks of life until we sleep trained. Why is toddler sleep so bAd? I'm scared... Is it cuz they can escape so easily now and want to play?

It scares the crap out of me that more of you aren't saying the newborn stage!! Dd is 3 weeks old and is nursing for the 6th time since midnight (it's 7am). She has screamed in between and hasn't slept longer than 90 mins all night...

7 months. She just wouldn't go down without us rocking her to sleep.

4-6 months she wouldn't sleep by herself, and wouldn't unlatch. That was terrible. But from month 10 to 11ish stands out in my mind as worse, maybe because we weren't co sleeping anymore so I had to get up out of bed 4-8 times a night, and maybe because we had a brief period of good sleep right before it happened.

@looch: A tough *stretch* between 2 and 3??? A stretch? That's a year!!! That's 1/3 of your LO's life!!!?

Okay, this thread is freaking me out now!!

@nana87: I think a lot of us forget For me the newborn stage was absolutely the worst, followed closely but some crap that happened around 5 months when she decided to be awake for 2 hrs at a time in the MOTN every night and I was back at work.

LO started consistently STTN around 10 months and things have been glorious since then (she's almost a year).

1-2 months, obvi the first few wks were hard, but i was running on ftm adrenaline and while they were short cycles, they were predictable. month 2 was when there was no reason rhyme or pattern....

Umm, all of the ages? I would say 7-8 months has been the worst so far. She was waking up 4 times/night and my sleep deprivation continued to build (and I WOH full-time). It was a really rough month. I'm hoping we're on an upswing.

Wagon Jr... he's always been great so probably 0-4.5 months, when we sleep trained. He wakes up crying almost every night but it's been consistently happening, and he usually goes back to sleep on his own, so I cannot complain.

Lil Miss Wagon... either the first 4 months (BRUTAL... I thought I was going to die) or her latest regression at 19 months (again, BRUTAL... waking every hour at one point and needing us to calm her back down and sit outside her door til she fell back asleep).

@Silva: Ohhhhh yes! He'll occasionally (rarely, really) have a rough night where he's up 3-4 times, but usually he sleeps 7:30-4, eats, then back down til 7-8.

@Cherrybee: Aw, thanks Yes, her STTN plus me getting PPD under control have been the magic combo. Plus she's way more fun now

0-8 months.

@Mrs. High Heels: @Mrs. Bee: you're scaring me bc I plan to switch her to a twin after she turns 2...

Probably the first month, and then from 3.5-4.5 months. The 4 month regression may even have been worse then the newborn stage simply because we came into it with a bigger sleep deficit.

Hands down the hardest was from 3-5 1/2 months. The child just never slept night or day. 11- 13 months was also tough because she was sleeping well ( finally!) but then started waking up between 4:15 and 4:45 in the morning and would be up for the day.

DS- months 1 through 5.5 (when we finally sleep trained)
DD- 4-4.5 months. Other than that her sleep has been amazing!