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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]"We moved her to a toddler bed early and that helped, she didn't feel as trapped in the crib. She wanders around now but doesn't scream as much"[/b]

OP here. How early did you move your child to the toddler bed?

Thanks everybody for your answers!
My son is not teething now and his sleep has always been like this, whether or not he was teething. I did not cut his daily nap time, he did that.  He goes to bed and then wakes up after 1 or 2 hours. Then wakes again around 4 am and sometimes at 5 am again. From then on, he doesn't go back to sleep. We don't go to his room, we let him self-soothe but he is waking up everybody as he can go on for hours crying and yelling. We have another kid and he is waking him up too.
Our pediatrician has not been very helpful, she just suggested to let him cry until he falls asleep again, which doesn't address the issue of disrupting everybody's sleep.

Another problem is that, when he is awake, he never wants to be alone, this is for sure. Someone needs to be with him all the time when he is awake or he will cry and yell the all time. This adds to the exhaustion. I don't know if it is separation anxiety.... but how do you deal with that?

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I'm the PP with the low sleep needs kid. Our kids are incredibly alike, down to the not wanting to be alone thing. I chalk it up to extreme extroversion. I didn't even realize that letting a baby sit by itself to play was a thing till I had my second. My DD HAS to have someone next to her at all times or she cries.

We moved her to a toddler bed around 18 months? She was able to get in and out of it no problem. We baby proofed the room and have a camera on her. She has a few books but no toys. She can even turn on her light. She wanders around, talks to her stuffed animals, looks at books. It's been good. The only thing is she will still scream sometimes for someone to come in but we are working on that with our Hatch ok to wake clock.

To the PP who said this is normal- well kind of. Some kids are wired to need less sleep. MOST kids need about 15 hours a day, and about 12 hours consolidated after 12 months. Scientific experts agree on that. Maybe not hippy attachment parenting "experts" but legitimate child sleep doctors. That being said...some (very few) kids don't sleep. There's nothing you can do but help them learn that sometimes we have to be quiet in our rooms. [/quote]

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