9 month sleep regression

[SaharaSahara]

Hi

My baby has suddenly decided she doesn’t want to sleep anymore, what on earth is going on?

I took to google who indicated it could be a possible sleep regression.

How long is this expected to last? I’m so tired, she just won’t go down easy anymore even for naps. I understand she will have a longer wake window as she gets older and I’ve taken that into consideration. However, even after being awake for say 6 hours she’ll fight to sleep and it’ll take forever until she actually does only for her to wake again 30-40 min later.

She’s well fed before naps and main sleep so it’s not hunger waking her because if we offer a bottle she refuses. She’s just fussing constantly.

Any advice? Anyone survived this?

What's her normal schedule? 6 hours is a very long wake window for a 9 month old, my low sleep needs 9 month old does very well with a 4 hour 15 minute wake window before bed. How does she fall asleep? And, is she going through a lot developmentally at the moment? Learning to crawl/walk or developing her speech?

@shivawn her normal schedule would have been a wake window of 2.5-4 hours (varies depending on time of day) and then napping without a fight. I’d put her down and she’d just fall asleep. There was never any effort required as she never fought the sleep but now it’s as if she’s doing everything in her power not to settle.

Teething could be a factor but I suspect it’s a regression. Developmentally she’s more active and rolling around etc but not crawling or walking yet.

It’s been 3 nights of this so far and I’m really tired, not getting much sleep as she keeps waking and then it can take upto an hour to settle her again.

Oh that sounds very tough. It's great that she falls asleep independently, maybe try adding 15 mins extra awake time to a couple of her wake windows and see if that helps? Could just be down to changing sleep needs as she gets older. My guy dropped a full half hour of sleep per day a few weeks ago, which sucked since he was only doing 12.5 hours a day as it was!

Hopefully just a temporary blip if she's normally so good and it's only been 3 days, I know it feels like it will never end when you're in it though! Might be that she's getting ready to start crawling, I think that's what the 8/9 month sleep regression basically is, just so much happening developmentally during that time!