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No advice but OMG this terrifies me, since I feel like we have had similar sleep issues Will she calm down and go to sleep if you stay in the room with her? Not that that's a great habit to get into but I remember one of my friends with an older LO saying that it got them through a rough patch.

We went through a weird sleep patch recently too, right around 19 months. She had gone down really easily for a really long time and then for 2 weeks she would cry and we would have to go in and sit with her cradled in or arms until she fell asleep. She would cry out in the middle of the night and she would wake up really early (before 6am). We did a little CIO but it only worked after we had been going in and out of her room to soothe her, and there was nothing else we could do but leave her. But, it passed! She is back to normal now. I think it was a regression....She started stringing words together after that, so maybe her brain was in over drive.

Eta: I don't have much advice except that this too will pass!

Yep we've hit a rough patch and it's definitely connected to more words for him! I've been laying down next to him on the floor on a crib mattress on bad nights.

@NovBaby1112: if usually takes him about 30 minutes. Knock on wood the last few days have been better; he's been in bed around 8 and waking around 8:30. He has been squawking around 4:30/5, yesterday I pulled him into bed with me and today he squawked and put himself back to sleep. So we adjusted bedtime later and are trying to force the sleeping in part instead!

We had very similar problems around the same age - started right before a vacation, and continued for a couple weeks when we got home.

My LO would have loved it if I rocked him, but instead I got him to lay down in the crib and rubbed his back until he fell asleep. Then I'd slooooowly sneak out of the room. Did this routine for about a week. Then I shorted the back rub time to less than 5 minutes, but still stayed standing next to the crib until he fell asleep. Did this for another few days. Then I started backing away from the crib a little bit at a time, and if LO would pick his head up and look at me, I'd reassure him that I was right here, and shush him back down. This worked! Finally, I also started verbalizing what was gonna go down during our bedtime routine "first we take a bath. then we brush teeth. then we get jammies on. then we have some milk. then mommy is going to rub your back for a couple minutes, but mommy has to leave to go to bed in mommy's bed, so no crying when mommy leaves. mommy's right next door in her bed." LO was in the midst of a language explosion, and I think the verbalized routine part really helped!

Good luck. it SUCKS to go through!!!

@NovBaby1112: good luck! let us know how it goes!