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[wildflowersoul]

Last night West had a bad dream. He was sleep-crying (trust me, there's a difference between sleep crying and awake crying) and whimpering "No Gabby, No Gabby." Gabby is a girl in his daycare class, with whom he apparently fights like an old married couple. Or a couple of toddlers who want to be the boss of each other. It was so sad! He had been going to bed pretty easily for a while, but the past few days he's been putting up a huge protest at bedtime. I don't really begrudge it because it's been kinda nice to get some extra snuggles hugging him while rocking in the rocking chair. And he'll look up every once in a while at his twilight turtle stars with the biggest goofy grin (twilight turtle projects stars on the ceiling in a dark room and is one of the greatest baby inventions EVAR), and then look at me with that goofy grin like he's the happiest little guy in the world. Sometimes it's just perfect. We will ignore the totally random screaming fit in the middle of dinner tonight, even though he had been just happily munching on pasta and yelling "yay pasta!" seconds before. You can't win 'em all

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[wildflowersoul.livejournal.com]

You are definitely not screwing up. I am now convinced that every single kid is totally different when it comes to sleeping (and probably eating), and there is no "right way" to do it. If you aren't sick of rocking him, then I don't think it's a problem. I think it just gets to be an issue when parents are sick and tired of doing whatever it is they have to do to get the little one down. I still give West a pre-bed nursing session.

He'd been in a phase of going to sleep like a champ at bedtime, though that phase may now be over for a while (I think we're also at the 18 month sleep regression??). We're having some decent-ish success at slow night weaning. When he wakes up in the middle of the night asking for a milk break I've been able to stave him off with some back rubs and cuddles. But when he wakes up between 2-4 and asks for a milk break I give in and give him one, because this week that has been keeping him asleep longer in the morning, so he's actually been sleeping until almost 6:00. So basically, still not sleeping through the night, but I am trying to save my sanity by not being the all night open milk bar.

[doplar.livejournal.com]

Hopefully the worst part of the dream was Gabby taking away his toys and/or snacks! I wonder how kids' dreams develop over time and when they first get to the point when they can remember their dreams.

And, damn, there is such a thing as 18 month old sleep regression? You are a super mom!