9 month old disrupted sleep.. soo tired!

[Bookworm1993]

Our 9 month old LO has normally slept quite well with the odd wake up at night. This has been disturbed a few times with things like colds and teething but now I feel that every night is consistently very disturbed and she's now waking every 2 hours.

She is FF on 3 solid meals plus some snacks through the day. Sleeps in her next to me and up until about 3 weeks ago would go down at night within 10 minutes. Now it takes hours for her to go to sleep in the first place which probably means she's waking up so much because she's over tried but we are putting her down early she just doesn't seem to go to sleep. She'll pull herself to stand up and scream holding her hands up and I usually lie her back down and put my hand on her tummy and rry to reassure her. We use white noise every night and also have a black out blind and she sleeps in a growbag. Her teeth started to come in at about 5 months and on and off she has issues with this but I don't think it's been the issue in the last 3 weeks.(can't be certain though)

Tonight she took 3 and a half hours to settle and she's just woken up after 2 hours of sleep. She has eventually fallen asleep on my bed but we don't want to co sleep if we can help it. It's so worrying because she was initially a good sleeper and i know various factors can disturb it but my husband and i can't cope much more with the lack of sleep.
Her general routine:
7am wake up/ bottle feed (7oz)
8am- porridge or wheetabix with formula and fruit or yoghurt
9:30 am nap for one hour- usually in pram with white noise. Minimum fuss sleeps well
Usually give her a small snack when she wakes fruit/ breadsticks/yoghurt (10:30)
12:30-lunch
1pm-2:00 naps for hour usually again in pram with white noise (Takes a bottle before going to sleep)
2:00- small snack same as above
4:30-5:00- short nap (30 minutes)
5:30- dinner
6:00- bath
6:30-7pm- bottle and settling to sleep

Husband is night shift so sleeps upstairs during the day in our room so LO sleeps downstairs as can't use next to me

Recently tried dropping last nap admittedly only a few days ago. Should i persevere? Is there something more glaring that is missing or would help?

Thanks

It's so hard, you have my sympathies. At that age mine would for sure be on 2 naps only, maybe even one mega one in the middle of day on occasion. I'd move the second one a bit later and drop the third. Maybe bedtime is even too early but I'd try the nap first and see if that helps. But sometimes it's not really something to fix but just a phase to have to endure, so don't get too focused on finding a solution or it can send you mad! You're certainly not missing anything and sound like you're doing fabulously.

I think if she's waking up from her 3rd nap at 5pm and then you're putting her to bed at 6.30/7, she's nowhere near tired for bed! Her nap schedule reads more like a 5-6 month old than a 9 month old. Wake windows for 9 months tend to be 2.5-3.5 hours with the longest one before bed. I'd be dropping the 3rd nap and try where possible to have her naps in her cot.

Most 9 months are on 2 naps. Mine at 9 months woke at 7am, napped 10-10.30/11am and then afternoon was 2-3pm roughly. I never let them sleep past 3.30pm.

The thing that stands out for me is the very short wake window between the last nap and bedtime. Might be worth looking at the huckleberry app for ideas for 9 month old schedule and see if you can tweak it a bit? It could also be separation anxiety around that age. x

Thank you all I'll definitely drop to two naps and move the second one later.