This has been a long week to say the least! According to my weekly emails, Separation Anxiety peaks at 14 months...HELLO Sleepless nights! Owen is definitely going through extreme separation anxiety right now and is now waking several times a night screaming.
We are back to our retraining with letting him cry it out (a bit) and going to check on him every 10 mins but I have to say it's been soooo much harder this time than when he was younger. He knows now that we will come in if he cries long enough so we're worried that it may take much longer to get him back sleeping through the night.
Oh it was a nice 3 months of sleep...now back to the old days! We are determined not to take him out of the crib and trying to comfort him and teach him to go back to sleep. Wish us luck!
One good (well bad) thing is that our monitor broke...I know, silly but I am still using a monitor at 14 months. I really only use it for when we're on different levels but do keep it plugged in at night so I can peak in on him if he wakes up. Just to see if something is really wrong. Well our fancy $200 digital monitor no longer holds charge so I contacted the company and since it's still under warranty they are sending me a brand new one...YAY! But that means that I have to go 4-5 days w/o a monitor. It's super hard right now with him not sleeping but probably better b/c I don't hear every peep he makes.
Hoping for a sound sleeping weekend!
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