Routine for a 12 month old, not sleeping

[Kel55]

Hey just wondering what your daily routines are for 12 month Old (or around this age)
And how do they sleep?
My baby girl has the same routine everyday but her sleep has got really bad. She used to sleep so well but the last 6 months she wakes around every hour!
Last night she woke at 10pm and was wide awake until 4am!
I’m really struggling. I have asked hv for advise but she has said I’m doing everything she can think of and she doesn’t know what else to suggest.
She goes to bed so well I put her down awake and she goes to sleep herself no problem but she won’t stay asleep.
Any advise?

What time are you getting her up? What are you trying for nap times?

Has she started walking? The brain development needed for that is huge and not really a surprise that it disturbs sleep.

May also be teething?

When she wakes up in the night, what happens to get her back to sleep?

At 12 months I'd expect daytime routine to be

7am wake, breakfast
9am milk then nap
11am wake if not already awake
12pm dinner
2pm milk and nap
4pm wake if not already awake and give snack/drink if needed
6pm dinner
8pm (or 4h from waking) milk and bed

Her routine is
7am wake up milk
8am breakfast
930am back to sleep for around 1 hour
10:30am (when she wakes) snack then okay time or baby group etc
12pm lunch
1pm nap time for around 1 hour
2pm milk
3:30pm snack
5pm dinner
6pm bath, story time
7pm bed
She goes straight to sleep at bedtime no problem then sleeps till around 10pm and from them onwards she can wake every hour some nights!
Some times straight back to sleep other times awake for hours at a time.

She still has no teeth so we keep thinking it’s teething but 6 months of no sleep and still no teeth.

Yes she is walking she started walking at 11 months and is on the go non stop.

When she wakes up she will be standing in cot crying or calling me, I lie her back down cover her over. More often than not she will go back to sleep with me doing this but then is awake again a hour later!

Then occasionally like last night she is wide awake and up for hours.

You mention covering her up, could she be waking due to being cold? I'd suggest a size 6-18m sleeping bag. Get one that zips like a jacket, the ones with shoulder poppers won't work for a mobile toddler.

On average, how much night time sleep is she getting on a normal night? I'm thinking that if she's had 6 months of sustained disrupted night time sleep and is also only having two 1h daytime naps - she may well be chronically over tired and that could be the cause of the disrupted nights.

Yes she has the sleeping bag on at night time but she has a little blanket she likes to rub on her face so when I lie her back down I snuggle the blankly back in to her.

It's totally normal for babies to wake (a lot) at night, well into second year, and sometimes to stay awake for quite a while as a lot is going on developmentally. Even if they don't disturb us as they settle back down, they, and we, still wake several times overnight, we just don't realise or remember.

FWIW, We never had the night time partying phases but DS did wake a lot and NEVER napped more than about 2 hours in the day (and only just over one by the 12m stage). He still shuffles about quite a lot at night and sometimes talks or yells out. Sometimes he's asleep again by the time I come to and sometimes he isn't.

Oh, and at 2.7, he's just decided to start liking a sleeping bag. With shoulder poppers. Stays on fine!

Thank you harrysmummy
I think we will just have to wait it out “it’s a phase” we have tried so many things and changed things and nothing makes any difference.
My HV said it’s more uncommon for baby’s to be sleeping through at this age and the majority of 12 months old are still waking a lot.
Like you say there’s a lot going on developmentally. I don’t think a slight change in routine etc is going to change anything.
My eldest didn’t sleep through till she was 5 so I guess I could have a long time of sleepless nights in front of me lol

Only thing that's ever helped for me, (and only one DS, and staying that way) is bedsharing as he then wakes less and I don't have to move. And going to bed pretty early to try and get a decent stint in.

Now at 2y7mo, I'm sometimes waking in my own bed more than one night a week. And sometimes not!