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I think my son did that too. And all my friends said they had horrible 18 month regressions.

My sons regressions just seem to mean early waking. It will go back to normal soon I'm sure!!

I don't know if it is, but ever since it got so light out , K has trouble falling asleep. We don't have black out curtains, so I just quickly put her to sleep then put her down. And this week so far she started getting up before 6am as well. No idea if it's regression, wonder week, or what!

Yeap, 18 month regression is real - all the moms in our birth month club are dealing with it too. Early wakings, random wakings in the middle of the night, weird naps, tantrums, etc. From what I hear it goes like 4-6 weeks on average, could be up to 2 months. We'll have really bad 1-2 weeks, then it will settle down, etc. Do what you can and if you think the skylight is affecting things, thumbtack some blackout material to it.

18 month regression is the only other regression we hit since the 4 month. And it's been brutal.
The waking early was the first step, and it did resolve itself. (He went from 7am wake to like 5/5:30 and now is back to 7am after 2-3 weeks). Now we are just coming out of the night-waking phase. Fortunately only once a night and went right back down with 2 mins of rocking but it was still hard to go from sttn for over a year to that.

I've heard 18 month is the hardest and most unavoidable. So I wouldn't be surprised if that's it.

Yes. Bedtime was taking 1.5 hours so not sleeping till about 9:3 and still waking at 4:50-5:00 am. Every. Single. F-ing. Morning.

Knock on wood the long bedtime routine is over but the 5am wakeup looks like it's here to stay.

@winniebee: Get some white noise machines and do what you can to keep him in his room. DS has been getting up somewhere between 3:30-5am this past week just like awake and pounding his head on his crib and making a racket and I just flat refuse to go get him. At some point he just goes back to sleep because he knows I'm not coming. I have a newborn due in mid-May and I have a second Marpac Dohm at the ready and I have DH run the bathroom fans and laundry room fans sometimes to drown out the noise. I can see the stinker on the monitor and let's be honest I'm awake when he's awake, but I ain't coming to get you until its within 30 minutes of your normal waketime.

My 19 month had 2 motn wakings 2 nights ago, but had a normal night yesterday, so I'm REALLY praying we just passed the 18 mo regression.

@winniebee: we have the exact problem! our room is right next to hers and we have to walk by it on the way to the bathroom in the morning on creaky hardwood floors. it's like all of a sudden she is hyper sensitive to EVERYTHING even with all the white noise machines in the world on full blast.

I'd climb up there and cover that skylight! Our regression was all bed time and wake ups...