18 month sleep regression...

This little girl has been giving us hell at bedtime lately.  She has always been so good at bedtime and sleep time has NEVER been an issue but since Friday night she has FREAKED out at bedtime – like freak freak freak out! Yikes. We did a little research and he is currently 18month old and with that apparently comes sleep regression and she is currently 18months old – like on the dot! The first few nights this stressed me out bigtime but now we are coping and understanding that these regressions happen and we just need to get past it. We also then remembered that at 18months (also almost to the day) Ollie went through the same thing.... the exact same thing. It nearly broke us then as we had NO idea what was going on and why this kid who always loved bedtime now screamed the roof down – gosh..... luckily remembering this has comforted me and this too shall pass.

At 18month Ollies was freaking out so much that he refused his bottle and from then he had no more milk. At all. Ever.

C Bear has now been freaking out so much that she is also refusing her bottle and for the last 2 nights has refused her milk, so we seem to be going down the same path with her. I am ok with it, she doesn’t need milk anymore but this time its crept up on me. With Ollie the thought of no more bottles was a relief – with C Bear I am like “what the heck –already” – really? Can this be happening already? She barely has milk during the day at all anymore so if her evening bottles / night time bottles get chucked at me again they will be no longer. WHAT THE HECK. I don’t feel like I am ready for this....

The photos below depict exactly who this child is – happy and chilled (accept for the last few evenings of course) and I look forward to the time again when bedtime is full of laughs and chit chat until she falls asleep.

The good news is that last night she only cried for about 5 minutes then fell asleep and then again at midnight maybe - she cried and then fell asleep so its much better already. She had NO milk last night and I am praying that tonight is even better.