Sleep Regression

I think this is worse than having a newborn. At least with them you know you can feed them and they will usually go back to sleep. It is getting really hard getting up with Lauren lately and it is getting to the point that it can be every 1.5 hours to 2 hours. She will scream and scream till we go in there. We can't leave her because she will hurt herself. The other night we were downstairs when she started so it took us about 10 minutes (I put my pj's on first as I thought I would be in there a while) to get there and by that time she had hit her mouth so bad and split her lip open that I had to wash down the rails of her crib, change her shirt, wash her face and hands and take her stuffed lamb to the wash as it was all covered in blood. Then she slept even worse because she kept waking up looking for her lamb and it wasn't there as he was drying in the hall. I spent most of the night sleeping beside her crib as all the sleep consultants have told us to not take her out of bed and to keep telling her that it is bedtime. We were wondering if it was pain from her teeth as I am sure she has a cavity despite us brushing her teeth twice a day and never giving her a bottle or anything in bed. Then her infant development worker reminded us that this is a normal thing for kids when they are learning a new skill. It is just that most of the kids are over this around one as they are walking by then. Right now she is really working on walking and talking. In the last month her speech has exploded and she is basically walking all the time just unsteady now. She oddly has been doing so much better with both of them since she has been sleeping awful. Infant development thinks that she is working so hard on learning them that she isn't sleeping because there is so much going on in her head right now. I sure hope they are right and that she hurries up and learns it then because I can't do this much longer. I am exhausted.