1 year old stopped sleeping through the night!

[Mjane123]

Has anyone ever experienced this? DD2 has always been a perfect sleeper, since she was three months old, but the past 1/2 weeks she has been up every two hours, and won’t settle until she’s fed, bottle/porridge etc, she turns one this week, so I’m not sure if it could be attachment related? Or a growth spurt/regression, but she will not settle until she is fed, and then goes back to sleep on her own once she’s finished, and is awake again two hours later, it’s starting to take its toll now, both me and my husband work full time, and my other daughter is waking because of it too, is there light at the end of the tunnel or is it something I’m doing?
advice appreciated! :)

Are you feeding her every two hours or just the first time, then settling her some other way the rest of the night?

From a battle-hardened mother of two terrible sleepers a couple of weeks of night wakings taking its toll made me laugh, sorry.

Teeth? DS is/was actually a reasonable sleeper but a terrible teether and had powered through nine teeth in four months; he’s up two-hourly when in the thick of them cutting through, but will do longer blocks with Nurofen and Anbesol and a cosleep (only if the room is pitch black and white noise otherwise it’s party time).

Illness, growth spurts, development – standing, walking, talking, all play havoc. When DS had an ear infection with his cold a couple of weeks ago he’d only settle with his water cup – I think the sucking action helped. Best thing to do imo is ride out waves of bad sleep if the fundamentals are there: this sounds like a good sleeper having a rough patch, so instead of trying to solve it, remember it will pass and focus on survival: one of you takes on the baby, the other takes on the older child to cosleep them through any noise. Switch positions the next night so you each get one night horizontal in a bed, even if woken by crying. Alternate weekend lie-ins. Drink coffee.

But try teeth as the culprit, and maybe adding a supper right before bed if you think it’s hunger, then a bottle of water to settle overnight for the sucking action.

Have you increased her food in the day to try and curb the nighttime hunger?

Thank you for the tips!

yeah, weve increased her foods and asked the nursery to do the same through out the day, and even started giving her more before bed too, but it hasn’t seemed to do anything