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I think it's a stage. Bedtime was ROUGH for a few months with H. She would stay up for over an hour pat when we put her down. Insane. My husband wanted to keep her up later, but I put my foot down. As far as the wailing, we would go check on her if she seemed like she needed us, but otherwise I just left her to talk to her animals/happy screech until she fell asleep. A switch flipped a few weeks ago and bedtime has been SO MUCH EASIER. Like night and day.

I think it's like us now - DS is almost 19 months so they call the 18 month regression but my ped said it happens anywhere between 16-24 months. My son would cry and scream at bedtime, then yell and holler in his bed for up to an hour or more, then wake up at 5am hollering. Then he's obviously tired and cranky and throwing tantrums. It's the pits.

We tried pushing his 730pm bedtime to 8pm like you but it wasn't helping and all the moms in my birth month told me to try an earlier bedtime instead. For 2-3 days we went with a 7-715pm bedtime and he actually fell asleep faster and slept through the night. Then we had a few days of the same nonsense as before, but then followed by a few days of normal behavior. I think it's just a phase you have to ride out.