Sleep regression while learning to walk? Is this a thing?!

[Daisywho]

My 13 month old DD is on the cusp of walking and is going through a horrendous sleep regression; she’s never really slept through but normally only up once or twice a night and resettles with a quick feed.

For the last couple of months she’s been waking up at around 2am and is completely wide awake, monkeying around for 2-3 hours. I am exhausted!

I just wondered if it has anything to do with her trying to get her walking off the ground?! I’ve tried everything I can think of to tweak her routine but nothing seems to work!

Has anyone else been through this and come out the other side..?!

Hopeful bump for the evening crowd

Mine was a horror with sleep when learning to walk. She took ages to get the confidence to go. So we had 6-8 weeks of God awful sleep and naps. She was a horrid child to be around and I was horrid because I nearly died from lack of sleep. 😪
It just seemed to right itself once she got walking proper so no words of wisdom I just feel your pain. She has beeb and still is a really good sleeper so it hit me hard.

Yes! I found that every milestone seemed to be accompanied by a few days of horrible sleep. I think I read somewhere that it's their brains doing a tonne of neurone growth when learning to roll over/walk/talk etc. And they're trying to map new neural pathways in their sleep.

I think a few days or a week around a new milestone do lead to disrupted behaviour, this can be sleep/food/general mood.

I thinks it's unlikely that months of terrible sleep is related to learning to walk though. She can't have been 'on the cusp' for two months! It's probably just coincidence.