To wonder why babies sleep is getting worse

[Pondlife87]

My LG will be 11 months next week. She's never been a great sleeper with 6 hour stretches being the absolute max. But it's just getting worse.
Our routine is roughly this:
Awake at 6 30 (although recently we've been getting 5.30 wakes).
Nap around 9.30 (sleeps for between 30 to 80 mins)
Nap around 2 (sleeps for between 30 to 80 mins)
Bedtime at 6.30/7

She's not too bad being put down but then she wakes up every 30-45 minutes until around 10. Then she will do a 2/3/4 hour stretch. Then she's up again every hour. It's normally for boob and she's breastfed so it's all on me.
Will this ever end 😭?

If she was doing six-hour stretches then it's not to do with being unable to self-settle/waking every sleep cycle, as clearly she could self settle at one point. It just comes and goes, goes up and down, and there are so many factors: teething, development stages, regressions, yes night feeds but it's not the be-all and end-all that some posters seem to think.

It's more likely, I think, to be to do with overtiredness (or its friend, undertiredness!) and that endless bloody nap science of awake times and nap lengths that had to constantly change as the baby gets older and has different sleep needs. I bloody hate naps and awake times and can't wait til they stop even if it means dealing with DD all day. She might just need a routine tweak to get back on track.

(For the record my 1 year old can self-settle perfectly well, still wakes up anywhere between 2 and 2 million times, and sometimes self settles back, sometimes wants to feed, sometimes feeding doesn't work, sometimes wants a cuddle, sometimes flings me away and wants to do it herself. I think some kids are just crap sleepers.)

Last nap is waaaaaay to late, IMO.

Can you keep her up longer in the morning? Then she will sleep longer hopefully but more like from 11am or 12pm - a 1-2 hour nap then would be much better

I remember naps being tough at 11 months as not quite ready to drop the morning nap but not able to go to 12 either without a nap. I started trying to push the morning nap as late as possible and dropping a later nap. Eventually they start being able to to nap once at lunch time.

For sleeping through - my son didn't till nearly 15/16 months. He was bottle fed but still woke for milk every 4 hours at night. So while you may stay it's different to breastfeeding - he was still waking and expecting a feed.

We started sleep training when I was confident by baby was eating well during the day and there fore the night feeds were for comfort. Then we started night weaning and used a softly softly approach.

So step one we switched milk to water. Then water to a cuddle. Cuddle to a pat on the back.

This took 3 weeks so very gradual and once we stopped getting his feed, he stopped asking and expecting and started sleeping through.

Night ween her. Send dh in when she wakes. Offer water instead