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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have an 18mo son who has been a lousy sleeper for a while. We moved when he was 12mo and we have generally traveled and bounced around a lot and it has been tough on his sleep. We just got back from a trip overseas where he ended up sleeping in our bed with us from 2am-7am every night. We've been back for 2 weeks now and we are still struggling. We understood for a week with the time adjustment but now we are at a loss. He wakes up every night around 2-3 am and then doesn't really sleep the rest of the night. Wondering if anyone has any advice. I tried the "cry it out" last night but he ended up just crying forever so we had to go get him.

Note- we still do 2 naps a day but are transitioning to 1 nap/day. Any advice would be very much appreciated. [/quote]

I don’t think it’s fair to call him a lousy sleeper if you admittedly have been dragging him traveling and bouncing around a lot everywhere. Of course it will be tough on his sleep. He’s a little kid. Maybe he is a good sleeper or he could be a good one but he never had the chance to get the hang of it. And your expectations of this young child is that he should bounce back within 1-2 weeks, for what? Why should he bounce back when you’re likely going to bounce around again causing him to have to constantly adapt to new places/time zones? If I were him I would constantly wonder where I am bouncing to next week rather than how to bounce back from what has already happened.

No wonder sleep training isn’t working. Part of sleep training is preparing the environment and following some kind of age appropriate schedule. None of that can be done easily when he doesn’t have the stability he probably needs.

I suggest being lenient on him and recognizing that it is NOT his fault that he is being bounced around for whatever reasons. I am not going to get into the reasons why a child is moved around that much because it’s your personal business but if this how your kid has to live, then you have to at least be reasonable about what you expect from him. It is mind boggling that you are at a loss for why he can’t sleep well when you mention that he’s been bounce around a lot. You don’t think that plays a part at all? If this is just how it has to be then this is just something need to deal with. Accept that this is part of him being bounced around. [/quote]

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