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God yes. From 8 until 10 months old. Teething, growth spurt, sleep regression, wonder weeks, developmental leaps. They all happen in this short time and it really throws them off.

C stopped STTN. She was fighting naps and cranky all the time. Awful. Luckily, it passed and shes normal again now, it was like one night she fell asleep and woke up her old self again.

Oh, I feel ya.

E is 9.5 months old and we've been struggling the past week or two. Naps aren't SO bad...he fights about half of them, but they're actually stretching longer (from 40 minutes to 1.5 hours). But nighttime sleep is kicking my ass. Until a few weeks ago he would go down fairly easily and wake up 1-2 times a night (I was fine with this, it was usually before I went to bed and/or right before I'd get up).

Now he screams when I try to put him down. Thrice in the past week or two he's had these hysterical screaming fits at 2 or 3 am. Like...nothing will calm him but the boob (and he's not hungry, we tried a bottle). And even once he's calm and sleepy again I'll put him down, he'll sleep for like 15 minutes and then stand up and scream again. Last night I only got MAYBE 2 hours of sleep TOTAL. I've reverted to trying to nap when he does.

I don't know if he's teething. He's not fond of my poking in his mouth, but he has a well-baby visit so hopefully his pedi can tell us for sure. He's also hitting/on the cusp of hitting a few milestones, so I'm sure that plays into it. I just hope it ends soon...I can't sustain this level of sleep for much longer. We're just doing anything we can to survive it. I'm definitely worried he's reverting to old habits (being nursed to sleep) but it is the ONLY thing that's worked. I even tried co-sleeping, but he's too distracted by...well, everything.

Anyway, you're definitely not alone.

@TurtleDoves: haha I was thinking the same thing

we started experiencing this a little early, around 7 months. he stopped napping, wouldn't sleep for more than 2 hours at a time at night, and would consistently be awake from 1:30am - 3:30am, screaming.

I threw all training out the window and just nursed him to sleep, held him for naps when he got exhausted, let him sleep in our bed when it got super bad. I think we're in the clear now at 9.5 months and he's getting his old habits back without me having to do much

my suggestion would be to not worry about developing bad habits, and just go with what works at the moment. take that with a grain of salt however, as I never sleep trained and we are still happily nursing to sleep every night and some naps every day