Baby learning to walk - is this classic sleep regression time?

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Over the past couple of weeks I've noticed big changes in DS - he is much more playful, cheerful and now can stand up on his own which he does over and over then falls back down.

All lovely however after enjoying 2 months of sleeping through it has all gone to pot. For the last week he is getting up 2 or 3 times a night and getting up early. On a couple of occassions he has been awake for at least 2- 3 hours in the middle of the night. He will wake up screaming but then is very quiet as he lies on me. But he is wide awake!! I can feel his eyelids blink against my chest. Every time I put him down he gets up again and screams if I leave the room.

He goes to bed fine and relatively quickly (still fed to sleep but it was working). TBH even if I contemplated sleep training I don't see how it could do any good as he is wide awake for hours.

Is anyone else in the same boat? He is 14 months and I thought I was finally getting my nights back

The funny thing is he is always cheerful even though he must only be getting 8 hours sleep a night - arghhhhhhhhhh!

I don't know about full on regression, but DD always has a patch of bad sleeping when having a developmental leap. I hope he settles soon!

My 11mo is just starting to walk and is waking up mucheearlier than ever, plus the odd wakening through the night. Have you read about wonder weeks cos this all fits, reassuring to think it's just for a short period!

My daughter was AWFUL just before she learned to walk. She was never a good sleeper, waking 3-4 hourly at a year, but around her first birthday she started waking every 45-60 mins. I look truly haggard in all the photos from her first birthday! She walked two weeks later and calm resumed.

Thanks all! Hoping it's just temporary because I work PT and just can't concentrate.

Let's hope he works it all out soon!