14 month old sleep habits

[Space2000]

Hi I wonder if anyone can advise on 14 month sleeping habits with from experience or if any parents are going through it now.

My baby goes down after a bath, book and then into cot with bottle at 7pm but is wide awake by 8pm. If left in cot (which I'm against) she will scream, tears and be distraught). Sometimes she has a good night but mainly she's not into sleeping.
I've began, just the last few days, a stricter routine.
Breakfast, 11.30 lunch, 12 nap with bottle wake up no later than 2pm, 5pm dinner, 6.15pm bath, book then 7pm cot with bottle.

After she's woken up after initially going to sleep at 7pm we keep giving her a bottle to get her back down but we are ending up giving her loads of milk.

She's booked into a cranial osteopath this week as I'm at my wits end.

An example of a sleeping habit would be sleep from 7-12am then awake til 5am. Then Back asleep til 9ish.

If anyone has any advice, please help. Thank you in advance to any responses.
(I do feel like by 14 months she should sleep relatively ok?)

Another example is tonight, sleep from 7pm til 8pm and then awake til 10.30 but wide awake, excited and giggling.
Last night sleep from 7pm til 9.30pm then awake til 11pm then sleep til 8am.

My dsis had a toddler like this, the solution for her in the end was a later bedtime, around 8pm then he would stay asleep till the morning. As he approached two he dropped his nap and then went to bed at 7

The only thing I can think of is to introduce more in the way of food during the day. Would it be possible to bring tea forward to, say, half 3-4 pm and then a supper of perhaps weetabix or porridge along with the bedtime milk?
I only suggest that because my two sleep much better when they've eaten enough through the day.

DD is the same. Up to bed, usually wakes an hour or so later, she can be up for hours, she's just full of beans and chatty. Filling her up with milk doesn't work. Ashamed to say we've kind of given up and just bring her downstairs - usually till around 11pm then back to bed till 9.30am.

Would be really interested in any solutions as DS has just started waking at midnight and not sleeping till 3am! Should add they are 16 month old twins and I'm really hoping its developmental and will pass soon as I'm flipping knackered!!

To me it sounds like the baby thinks bedtime is a nap (and only sleeps for one sleep cycle, 45 mins).

What about introducing a nap in the afternoon, then maybe she will understand real bedtime is for the long sleep?

To continue with sparkle's post, if you don't already you could try to make it so that her daytime naps are in a light room and daytime noise is of a normal volume; nighttime sleep will of course be in the dark and the surroundings are quiet and peaceful.

Hope you and your dd get a better night's sleep tonight.

Thank you for suggestions.

Tonight she went down at 7pm happily then woke at 7.30pm really really distressed. We bought her downstairs and she took ages to calm. We worked out she's teething so that may explain tonight. We've just put her down but she's hyperactive and hoping she falls asleep with her bottle.

I'm going to try a very quick nap tomorrow (20mins) at 4pm.

Cranial osteopath is amazing! Couple with lunch and dinner at same time every day. A good nap after lunch wake up no later than 2pm. We now have a calm baby. And, touch wood, a good sleeper

How are you getting on Space?

We have a 14 month old who doesn't like sleep much either. We do bedtime at 8-8.15 (and generally only 1hr 40 min total naps in the day) so she is properly tired at bedtime. Might help?

It also sounds like your DD might have a bit of a bottle=sleep association which could mean she finds it hard to get back to sleep without another bottle if she wakes at any time in the night. Can you try getting her to finish the bottle before you put her down and see if she will go to sleep without it (stroke and shh her instead)?

Maybe also try swapping milk for water in any night time bottles, so she eats more in the day?