![]() Experts suggest beginning to employ a nightlight at this time (we have always used one so that hasn’t been a possibility for us). The first is that growing and an increased awareness of their surroundings leaves many toddlers at this age with a new fear of the dark. There are a few theories as to why children just over a year and a half might go from sleeping beautifully to having troubled sleep. It turns out this is fairly common, which is surprising given that nobody warns you about it. I’ll start by saying I didn’t even know such a thing existed until I Googled something like “19 month old baby is all of a sudden not sleeping and what is happening because I am going crazy” at desperation one night at 2am. I think we’re square in the middle of (one month late!) an 18-month sleep regression. At first I thought that it was teething, but enough time has gone by without any of our old cures working that it’s clear that that’s not our problem. ![]() The Little Monkey is 19 months old and has (with the exception of a night or two here and there) been sleeping wonderfully for well over a year now. Remember that fatigue from the newborn days, where you could feel the pressure of being tired behind your eyes, and in a dull soreness at the base of your head? Where coffee only made you feel that odd combination of jittery and exhausted, and you saw the 3am hour come and go for many nights running? I’m there again, and the only weird part of this is that I don’t have a newborn. I am sitting down to write this in the midst of an exhausted fog.
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