For context, we sleep trained my son when he was 6 months old. It took 1 night and he’s slept through the night ever since. There has been 1 or 2 occasions of him being sick where he’s cried in the middle of the night. THATS IT!
We are on vacation and using his newton travel crib. Day 1 he skipped his nap on the flight. Cried like crazy going into his crib but was fine after about a minute. Woke up at midnight screaming crying Mommy over and over again and obviously I went to him. No fever, no poop, just clearly having a bad night due to no nap and being over tired. It took 2 tries and over an hour but we finally got him back to sleep.
Night 2 he cried going into again but slept through the night.
(Naps he cried going in but falls asleep in a few minutes and for background he does not cry at all going in at home)
Last night he cried going in, stayed standing for over half an hour (not crying), fell asleep, and at 2:30 woke up screaming crying mommy, so naturally I ran to him. No fever, no poop, I held him and sang for 15-20 minutes then my husband tried putting him back in. He screamed and cried mommy and daddy for 10 ish minutes until his cry was so bad we thought he was going to puke. We grabbed him again and the whole repeated itself. He was up until nearly 4 and it took another big cry for him to finally lay down and fall asleep.
First of all my heart literally feels broken into a million pieces. It is absolutely killing me to hear him cry and yell for mommy and not go to him but I know he just needs sleep and counting to pick him up is not helping. How the heck do I navigate this?
Second my husband thinks it’s separation anxiety and a sleep regression however I think that would be ironic that it’s started on vacation. Separation anxiety yes but sleep regression no. I think he’s too over stimulated during the day. Too much pool time/exploring etc.
Has anyone gone through this at 19 months? Or just on vacation in general?
Going to let him nap a little longer today and attempt a more chill second wake window and hopefully bed a tad bit early and maybe that will help. My mama heart seriously can’t take another night of this and we are here for 4 more nights.
Someone please talk me off a ledge