My baby has just turned 13 months and until now has always slept fairly well, going 7-7 with some occasional wake ups, all great. no issues.
fast forward to a couple of weeks ago and all hell seems to have broken loose! She is very hard to settle to sleep despite having the same routine as always (bottle, bath, book, cuddles, bed). But the main issue is that most nights she is now WIDE awake for HOURS every night! DH and I basically take it in one-hour shifts to sit with her/do whatever we can to soothe her until she eventually decides to go back to sleep. This can be up to 4 hours! Nothing we try seems to work. Giving milk, rocking, patting, singing, holding, bringing her into our bed. Nothing, she’s just awake. In the end we can sometimes end up just sitting her between us in our bed and putting the tv on for her so she will at least sit still and then she will eventually fall asleep in our bed. We’re both well aware that this is a terrible habit to get into, but when we both have work in the morning we’re just doing whatever we can to try to get a few hours sleep.
I suppose I’m just wondering if anyone else has had any similar experiences or has any advice/words of wisdom as to what could be going on and what we could try? For context she has just started walking and she seems to be rapidly developing lots of skills so it could be developmental, but it does seem to be a bit extreme! She naps ok in the day, between 1-2 hours a day. She might also be having a growth spurt as she’s eating so much too! We have started giving her porridge and banana before bed plus her usual milk just in case she was hungry.
send help!
thanks ☺️