Split night- PLEASE HELP!

[Emily920]

Hi Everyone, I really need some help as I am so exhausted!!

My daughter is 11 1/2 months old and her routine at the moment is..

6:30am wake up
7:00 breakfast
8am 4oz bottle
9am NAP- 1hour
10am snack
12pm -Lunch
1pm/2pm -NAP -45 minutes
3pm snack
5pm Dinner
6:00 bath
6:30 bottle and bed

Now my issue is, she sleeps well until 10:30pm and wakes up to come into our bed.. she won’t settle unless I put her in. I’ve tried the cry it out but she gets really worked up and I just can’t do it!

When she comes into our bed, she then sleeps well again until 2:30-3am and spends the rest of the night pretty much awake.. trying to crawl around, etc. I try everything to get her back to sleep but she just doesn’t want to which results in me just lying there awake to make sure she doesn’t fall off the bed and I just let her get tired again before she nods off herself at about 5am but then is awake at 6:30!! This has been going on now for about 2 months!!

If you have Been though this, please can you give me some advice! I really don’t know what to do 🙈 Thank you x

@WeeDoughball @Emily920 when I first read about it, it genuinely took me about 2 weeks to start doing it because of the fear that I'd wake him up and it wouldn't work and I'd just have a fuming baby on my hands.

I've never tried at night. I think give it a go if she has a regular wake up time. If it doesn't work in same way you'll have only lost 15 minutes of sleep so worth the risk I think! Good luck

@Emily920 how did you get on?

@teethingbabyhelp
It’s brilliant! I only ever had to wake her for one day, and since then her morning naps are now always longer than an 1 1/2 hour! It’s so simple and I wish I had known about it sooner! She is less tired, always wakes up happy and it’s just much easier!

It’s also helped in the night too! So what I’ve decided to do is push her bedtime back until 7pm. Last night for example she slept from 7pm until 4:50am straight through!! She hasn’t woke up in the night and stayed awake for 2 hours for about a week now so it’s a win win 😊 I just need to work out how I’m going to get her to sleep in a little longer in the morning lol but definitely do it!! Xx