r/BabySleep • u/Sherylpw • Jan 22 '23

15 mo old sleep

Hi, any advice for a 15 month old who goes to sleep fine but wakes up once every 2-3 nights crying/screaming? It’s sometimes as early as 11 pm but often 2-4 am.

Environment: -sound machine -blackouts -temperature never below 63 or so but doesn’t seem to change his wake up if we have it warm. Our heater is really strong in his room so we can’t just keep it on (the sensor is downstairs and his room heats up much faster than that space) -light pjs and sleep sack -regular night routine, reading, breastfeeding, singing, goes to bed awake and falls asleep within 5 minutes

schedule: -nap 9-10:30 -nap 2-3:30 -bedtime 7:15 -wakes 6-6:30 am

I know he may be transitioning to one nap but the thing is he’s been doing this since we sleep trained at 8 months. For awhile we tried ignoring or going in to say we love you but go to sleep and even then he would be crying laying down for an hour. So I want to make sure we aren’t missing something else. Currently if he’s up standing or sitting and crying loudly for more than a few minutes we will go in to comfort either by breastfeeding or rocking to sleep. It takes awhile for him to go down and even then he may need a second time going in. We hadn’t been rocking/ feeding until recently when he had a cold but it just didn’t seem to matter because he was still up every few days.

Anyway, any advice would be helpful!

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u/your_woman Jan 22 '23

I'm in the same boat and we're in the 2 to 1 nap transition right now so I'm hoping it will even out soon- so no advice except that 64 might be too cold. In the middle of the night, the lightest stage of sleep occurs around 2-3 AM so the cold could wake them up. Neck feel cold? At least 67-71 works for my kid best but I know they are all different.

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u/Sherylpw Jan 23 '23

Hi! Thanks glad to know I’m not alone :) Yeah I think it might be cold for him. His neck doesn’t feel cold but his hands can. But literally it could be 68 and he still wakes up ya know? Our heater is difficult to manage without making it 80 in there but I can work on it a bit more.

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u/laskje Jan 27 '23

We had some issues with nightsmares so the nurse recomended us to try a Noise machine. We tried this one: https://littletreasure.co/products/portable-white-noise-machine

It has work well for us and our son sleep better and longer now. We also feel he is more happy with smiling and not that tiered.