17-Month Sleep Regression: What Changed and What to Try Tonight
A practical guide to sudden bedtime resistance, night waking, early rising and nap trouble around 17 months—without treating regression as a diagnosis.
Read the guideSleepBaby.org parent library
Practical answers for calmer days—and gentler nights.
Clear, reassuring guides for the questions parents search at 2 a.m., plus a simple next step when bedtime still feels impossible.
What can we help you understand?
Still waking all night?
See the complete step-by-step plan we recommend for exhausted parents.
Open the sleep-help experienceBrowse the library
Begin with the question you have today.
Latest guidance
Helpful reads for real-life parenting
Navigating the 13-Month-Old Sleep Regression: A Comprehensive Guide
A 13-month sleep regression is a useful description, not a diagnosis. Use the whole-day pattern, nap clues and a calm five-night plan to choose your next step.
Read the guide
14-Month Sleep Regression: What Changed, What Helps, and When to Call
A pattern-first guide to bedtime protest, night waking, nap changes, separation, discomfort, and calm next steps at 14 months.
Read the guide
Baby Sleep After Circumcision: What to Watch Tonight
Some temporary sleepiness can happen after circumcision, but breathing, color, waking, feeding, urine, and healing matter more than sleep length alone.
Read the guide
Nap Schedule for a 1-Year-Old: One Nap, Two Naps and the Transition
A one-year-old may need one nap or two. Use total sleep, repeated patterns and practical schedule examples to decide what fits—and how to transition without wrecking bedtime.
Read the guide
4-Month-Old Sleep Schedule: A Flexible Guide
Build a flexible four-month-old sleep schedule around total sleep, feeds, nap patterns, safe sleep, and your baby's real response.
Read the guide
22-Month Sleep Regression: What Changed—and What to Do Tonight
A 22-month sleep regression is a label, not a diagnosis. Sort bedtime battles, night waking and nap trouble, then choose one calm reset.
Read the guide
Sleep Schedule for a 1-Year-Old: Two Naps, One Nap and Bedtime
Build a flexible one-year-old sleep schedule from total sleep, morning wake time, nap needs and bedtime—with practical help for the two-to-one nap transition.
Read the guide6-Month-Old Milestones: Movement, Communication, Play and Social Skills
A calm whole-child guide to six-month movement, communication, play and social development, including normal variability and when to ask for help.
Read the guide
Cradle Cap: Gentle Scalp Care, What to Avoid and When to Call
You part impossibly soft newborn hair under a night-light and find a yellow, waxy patch that was definitely not in yesterday’s mental inventory. Typical cradle cap looks dramatic,…
Read the guide