11 month old sleep gone to pot... advice please!

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Hi all,

DD started off not a great sleeper, then magically, around 7 months, started to sleep through (most of the time).

I the last few weeks it has all gone wrong, obviously coinciding with me going back to work next week. She now screams, manages to sit up and stand up in her cot despite her bag and sleepy head grand thing. I'm scared to leave her crying at length (we have done the doubling method of crying before which worked well) incase she falls over in her cot. Should I leave her? Sometimes she's in a little ball at the bottom of her cot. When I go in I normally get a big smile but the longer it goes on the more tired she gets and cries. She used to self settle so well just playing with and sucking her muslins.

She gets up at half 6, first nap around 9am for an hour or so, second nap around 1pm for around 1.5 hours.

Any advice or experience gratefully received!

Just realised how appalling my grammar is - I'm blaming my I pad keyboard not my brain haha

Just to say Im in the same boat! DD turns 1 next week, sleep has really gone to shit the past couple of weeks. Also v v clingy during the day, only wants me . Lots of bfing and comfort sucking and has gone off solids mostly.

I do think its a developmental leap. Theyre leaving babyhood and becoming toddlers, walking and talking are starting to happen. Bit of an unsettling time for them. Am sure it will calm down again soon.

Mylittlebird poor you - hope you can have a quiet day today? I find a walk and fresh air helps too?

Messybun I agree- think it must be something like that.

We weirdly had a better night last night so will see what tonight brings x

If she's standing or sitting up in the cot does she know how to lie back down again by herself?

Messy Bun I totally agree - she started walking at 11 months and has just turned one so she is literally non stop all day so I can imagine there is a lot going on in her little brain right now. She's also in the process of cutting two more teeth, she's been really late with her teeth and only has the bottom two!

Kariana - she will lie back down but usually ends up side on and then has no room. I'm still super paranoid about her falling and whacking her head, I know she has bumps throughout the day but I still don't like it really. I wouldn't be surprised if she turns into a cot climber, she's frantically trying that's for sure!

Kariana- she can if she's not too upset but if she's stressed I think she finds it more difficult

I was just wondering if that's why she's struggling. She might be waking sooner than you think, standing up for a while and then getting stressed when she realises she can't get back down, especially if her legs are restricted in a sleeping bag. It couldn't hurt to help her practise lowering herself back down a bit more and maybe not using the sleeping bag to see if it helps. I'm not sure it's safe for her to be in one if she's standing up anyway as she could easily tumble over with her legs restricted, especially if she's actually standing up for several minutes before she starts crying to alert you to it.

How is everyone getting on?

We had a few days of improvement but just now two days on trot of two hourly waking...

We seem to have improved in that the random wake ups where we can't settle her have stopped, but her 'natural' wake up time seems to have moved to anytime between 4am and 5am where there's no settling her at all, she's wide awake and ends up dosing in our bed. Our alarm goes off at 6.15 so we've just had her in our bed rather than sit for an hour listening to her cry in her cot and then getting up anyway for the alarm.

So we're better in that it's not two/three times per night, but can still only get a stretch of sleep until about 4am which TBH, even though it's annoying, I can deal with it for now. Still hoping it's a phase and she'll eventually do more of a 7-7 or 7-6 period of sleep...,I can dream!