12 month old at nursery - sleep patterns seem erratic -

[dearbeatrice]

hi, sorry if this has been asked lots before...

my son was in a good routine, and it's generally stayed as such, albiet little changes of sleep times etc,

is it usual that sleep patterns go out of the window when they make big strides ie walking more?

the nursery say he's not sleeping there, he looks so tired and fell asleep on the way in, he's waking lots ie an hour after we put him down, in the night, early (5 am) for bottle. tried weetabix before bed for him last night.

is it an age thing?

also, any views on whether he's okay for 12 month jabs at 5pm given all this? I dont' think he's poorly, just out of routine (gone up to the 1 - 2 age group at nursery too, so maybe this has affected it?

thanks so much for any advice

I would say he is over-tired hence the disturbed sleep patterns. He is also experiencing so much more each day so his mind is a little whirl of information. On the days he is not in nursery can you put him down to bed earlier? He seems to need to catch up.

Also, if he is expending so much more energy then he may be hungry, hence the early morning wake ups.

Is there anything the nursery can do to help him sleep? Would they walk him round the garden in a buggy? Does he have a comforter that he needs to sleep with? My DD never slept at Nursery at this age so I sent a sleeping bag in as she sleeps in one here and it did the trick! Now she is in the 18 month+ old room and she sleeps for 2 hours!!

He may also be having a growth spurt, I would try to before bed snack, we do toast and it does help.

As far as jabs go then if he is not poorly then I would get them over and done with otherwise you could just be prolonging the agony - if he starts to sleep better over the next few weeks you would hate to distrupt again with jabs.

Could he be teething too?