Advice on 14month old - from 11hrs sleep to 4!?

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Hi all, my daughter is 14 mths old. We were very lucky and spoilt in the early months when she would sleep through for 10-11 hours. For the last few months she will still generally go down at 7 but can then wake anywhere from 11pm onwards until 5am. This has been constant every night.

She will wake up and flip herself over to sit up in her cot. We have tried a few things from leaving her to tire herself out, to constantly going in and lying her back down every few minutes, to giving in and getting her up to play/feed/sleep with us.

Nothing works at all and with both of us working full time we are literally at our wits end about what to do. To the point where we'd consider paying money we can't afford for a sleep consultant.

I get that our downfall is maybe trying too many things but sometimes you feel it's necessary when nothing makes a difference. Just don't understand what's caused such a drastic change.

Every baby's different, but can anyone offer advice or help from similar situations to us?

Thank you

Could she be teething or poorly?

That's quite a turn-around. Maybe it's a sign her daytime sleep routine needs to change. When does she sleep during the daytime currently?

What's her daytime routine like in terms of sleep? Could it be teething?

Snap!

(I think we crossed posted the same things)

Ha ha yes it seems so. One of our twins is a terrible sleeper so I have every sympathy for the OP.

Hi guys,

Well she's had a bout of teething lately but i can't see any new ones coming through now and this has been going on so long now ... also this behaviour doesn't follow patterns of previous bouts of teething?

She generally has one nap now at nursery between midday and 2 ... and we asked they don't let her sleep too late into the afternoon. This big change has been happening before she dropped down from 2 to 1 nap.

Feel like we've made a rod for our own backs by trying so many techniques and maybe confusing her ... but when you're up for work at 6 and she's on the go till 5 you do get desperate! 😖

this behaviour doesn't follow patterns of previous bouts of teething?

Cutting molars is a whole different ball game. However it's not necessarily going to be that.

I wouldnt discourage daytime sleep. I'd encourage more of it.

At 14 months my youngest was have two 2h naps a day (9am-11am and 1pm-3pm). When she changed to 1-nap days at 20 months, she needed 3-4 hours of daytime sleep. Plus 11 hours at night.

Hmmmmm is she waking up screaming or just needing reassurance? I only ask as my 17 month old is an atrocious sleeper and would wake screaming but it would stop as soon as we took her into our bed etc so clearly not in pain. Does she settle herself ok for naps? Does she have her molars? Again sleep went out the window when dd was cutting hers. And it took an age too for all 4 to come through.

She definitely has her bottom two, not top though.

Perhaps i'm underestimating how bad teething can be ... though why it's just between these hours!? She self settles fine in the day and from 7pm until the "dark hours!" ... when she does scream if we try to put her back down.

I'd have thought she'd be more tired if not napping as much at nursery?

When teething did you up the number of bottle feeds at all? Were there any techniques you found particularly good in helping?

As you can probably tell she's our first so muddling through still trying to learn so much along the way. Thank you all for your words of advice!

Our dd was the same at night but fine during the day. Has she had reflux at all, we found the symptoms so much worse when teething. We used a combination of ambessol and ibuprofen though the ibuprofen aggravated her tummy. For a while we upped her bottle feeds but that became a habit for waking so in the end tough love seemed to work as in my case it was definitely becoming a habit. Teething for us was hell so you really have my sympathy. She(ye) must be exhausted bless her being awake for such long periods at night.