Screaming fits at bedtime
My 8 month old has been fighting and screaming at bedtime for almost a week and I’d like advice. It’s wearing on us emotionally because falling asleep by herself has been her only strong suit for several months.
We generally wake her up between 7:00-7:30a, she averages about 3 hours of naps a day, 13.5 hours of sleep/day. Average wake windows are 3/3.5/3.5. She generally goes down to bed around 8, give or take 10 minutes based on cues. She has been going to sleep in under 10 minutes by herself in her own room until this week.
Suddenly she has been screaming until she hyperventilates and can take up to an hour to calm down or has a false start and then screams. On the 13th and 17th, those fits are followed by 8-10 hours of straight sleep, which have only happened a couple times before in her entire life. We think this may be the start of separation anxiety, but does anyone have suggestions on what else it could be?? What are we missing here?