3rd child in sleep regression

 3rd child LL is around 8-month corner. She sits by herself, almost crawls, grabs REALLY well with a good pinch (ouch for long hair). We've been careful not to leave any small items accessible for her, which is hard especially with 2 lil boys.

For the past few weeks, maybe around the time we've traveled to California, she's been getting to fuss a lot, day and night. During daytime she cannot be left by herself for more than, say, 10 minutes as she starts crying, often hysterically. At night, worse. She wakes up MANY times, no matter whether she just starts the night time sleep, or past midnight sleep. Sometimes she falls back to asleep easily, sometimes just by herself, but almost every night there's one episode where she gets wide awake, stays up for an hour or even longer in the worst cases. We suspect she's in separation anxiety period (Ref. babycenter.com), but also wonder if the environmental change over the inter-state trip and multi-family get-together may have triggered something and lingeing.

Apparently we should be familiar with this. Looking back, when our 1st child HG was around 9 months old, I started writing about his lack of sleep continuity. Back then we seem to have started sleep training (to help the sleep of the infant, or it was more like helping to secure the sleep of adults). Time flies, but yes I definitely remember the struggle at night time. It could have been even worse as my wife m was regularly on night-shift and I stayed up late a lot for my work with customers in Asia. Now m comes home every night, and I'm part-time (yes I slowed down my work temporarily). But who knows, now we have 2 little boys who constantly get sick and need attention during night time.

I don't remember with our 2nd child AK if we had an issue with sleeping between his 6 to 10 months period although we were more worried about health as he developed respiratory issue, which didn't get worse as much.

It's actually relieving that what we're seeing is nothing new to us.

 

Won't last long unfortunately though, she's smiley whenever she's happy.