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[quote=Anonymous]My son has been sleeping through the night since he was 16 weeks old. We've never dealt with any regressions or teething issues...

Until now.

He's 22 months and for the past 2 weeks he has been screaming and crying when we put him in his crib. He claws at our arms and neck and cries "mama!" It BREAKS MY HEART. I know we aren't supposed to create a "long term problem" for a phase...like, we can't start bringing him into our bed, but this is so hard. I'm laying in bed crying and typing this while he screams.

We've tried an earlier bedtime, later bedtime, night light, door open, etc. He is not sick. He is not teething. It's been two weeks of bedtime tantrums. We go back and forth between tough love and coddling.

It's like the saddest most awful tantrum. We don't know if we should pick him up and rock him, or ignore him completely...?

Sometimes when we go check him and settle him down it works and he lays down. Other times it backfires and makes him cry harder when we leave.

HELP.
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