Hi! My DD2 has just turned one and SLEEPS ALL THE TIME still!! I have worked out she must sleep about 18 hours in about every 24!! I know most people will say "enjoy it while it lasts" etc, but it is beginning to worry me.
At night she sleeps from 7pm til 7am (but that's only cos she shares a room with DD1 who wakes her up at that time, if left to her own devices, she would wake up about 9am/10am!!!!) Then she sleeps from 8.30am til about 12pm - She would have another sleep in the afternoon from about 2pm til 4pm, but I don't let her; but then she will normally conk out about 4pm, which make bedtime a little more tricky.
Is that normal?? Does anyone else' 1 year old still sleep as much as this?? If she doesn't get her full quota of sleep she won't eat and just sits in the high chair arching her back, throwing food eveywhere and screaming her guts out. It is quite scary.
She was a little prem (month early) and is still quite small (18lb, 6-9 / 9-12 clothes) and is very active when she is awake.
I am just starting to get a little worried, particularly with the screaming when she doesn't get enough sleep.....
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1 Year Old DD2 Sleeping TOO MUCH!!?
CaptainDippy · 30/05/2006 10:20
Mmmmmmmmm, well my DD1 was pretty sleepy too - up until she was 15 / 16 months she was sleeping 12 hours at night and then 4 hours ish in the day, but she was ok if she didn't get loads of sleep - whereas DD2 screams her head off!!!! I suppose that's what I really worried about - the crazy behaviour!! Thank you for your reassurance yawningmonster!! 
dont worry - i took y dc1 to doctors because of it - people kept saying it was not right but infact ALL my (5)have been the same -i found it quite annoying tied to the house as some have been complete pita if not getting it.I now think its their brains growing 
I am going to report this thread to mumsnet on the grounds it is making me sick 
seriously, don't mean to make light of this - actually I am sure it's not a problem, you say your DD is very active when she is awake, so I wouldn't worry; she knows what she needs, and it obviously isn't doing her any harm. She is still very young, still a baby....I'd go with it.
As I said sparklemagic ds slept alot of hours but it was definately pretty interupted at nite and he didnt actually sleep through (longer than 4 hrs) until he was 13mths, until then he woke pretty regularly! So dont feel too , it also used to worry me as ds has a medical condition and I worried that it was a sign things were not going well.
LOL at reporting this thread. Having been up since 5:30 after having been woken twice last night (once for an hour) am very, very .
Hey - this is a thread about me being worried that when DD2 doesn't get enough sleep, she won't eat and screams the house down!!!! Don't be too - It ain't all a bed of roses!! Had to get up at 2am cos she'd done a massive stinky poo - Does that make you feel any better!!?
That's ok!! Thank you for your though - It does make me feel a bit better!!
CaptainDippy
Ds (18 months) also screams the house done if he is tired and hasn't got enough sleep. He has always done this and is impossible to calm down. We have just come back from a holiday and the flight was a nightmare as he didn't get a proper lunchtime nap (we were travelling to the airport and he slept but he only had 1.5 hrs insted of his usual 2-3 hrs and it was in the car which is never as good for him as in his bed). He was manic by 5pm and screamed so loudly you couldn't hear any of the announcements on the plane 
. He eventually fell asleep but was really grumpy when we got off the plane and in the cab again.
I find this a real problem as people think I am making a fuss because I am always planing my days so that he get enough sleep. The problem is if he doesn't my life is hell. If he does get enough sleep he is a different child.
Ds needs sleep but really fights it so I have the worst of both worlds on that front - well he does eat well so at least I don't have any problems with him on that YET!!
Space issue, I'm afraid, also I'd quite like them to grown up sharing a room if poss - Think it does them good IMHO!! Don't know, thank you for posts though!!
CaptiainDippy and then LOL when I saw all the faces on this thread!
I wish DS2 would sleep like that.... think of all the stuff I could get done..... washing...... MN..... tidying.... MN...... cleaning... MN......
Interesting. Perhaps I should. Mmmmmmm.....
Yes, I could get all of that stuff done when DD2 is sleeping, but unfortunately I have 2.4 yr old DD1 to worry about - so nothing gets done in DippyLand, I assure you!!!!!
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CaptainDippy - lol -
I generally don't confess to my DS sleeping habits as I figure I will just get a load of cyber-coffe cups pelted at me! - however I do understand that whole thing about being tied to the house - PITA - until I decided that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em ! - and so now I nap in the afternoon while DS sleeps - Sod's law says it will all go tits up with a second baby, but for now am just enjoying the naps!
Hope you get your two sorted .
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