One year old's 12 hour sleep and food?

[Winehound84]

My daughter is 12 months and she has been properly sleeping through from more or less 7 months. We aim to have her sleep 7:30 to 7:30 but she often wakes up around 6-6:30 screams for up to 10 minutes and falls asleep again until 7:15-7:30, which is very annoying cause it means I don't really sleep anymore. Up until last week she has been breastfed 4 times, now 3 plus 3 times solids and snacks. Since pretty much forever she has been RAGING through her morning nappy change until she is on the boob. Right after she turns into an angel. Her dinner is at 5:30 pm and I give her boob at 7:15 pm or so.. but I dont think I have much in the evening, so since she wakes up early and rages in the morning, my question is: IS SHE HUNGRY?? How much milk do your one year olds drink before bed and what time is their dinner? How long do they sleep??

If the baby wakes at 6am crying and then by 7:30 has a nappy full of poo - it wouldn't surprise me if the 6am cry is due to a full nappy.

Either way, as pp have said, personally, if my DD wakes up crying I go and find out what's wrong and fix it.

12 hours without food, drink or a cuddle is a lot to ask of such a little little one. None of mine have ever slept for 12 hours - we sometimes get 11 if we've tired them out enough. It's OK to ask for help on how to improve things however I think your expectations are ridiculously high. Why not bring DD in for a cuddle at 6am? She might go back off, she might not, but it saves the screaming and who doesn't love a cuddle with a baby?!

Did you mean to be such a GF?

Well no doubt will get the OP when she has dc2

*karma will get the OP

Blimey, you seem to be getting a hard time OP.

We aim to have her sleep 7:30 to 7:30 but she often wakes up around 6-6:30 screams for up to 10 minutes and falls asleep again until 7:15-7:30

The wake probably is hunger, but not starving and I must be fed hungry, as is evident from her whining, self setting and going back to sleep.

Also realise that breastfeeding is about far more than calories. It's more about comfort at this age. Baby may well be waking and might be settled by a hand on chest or similar. But since she's self settling I wouldn't say this is needed.

If the 6am wake is especially bothering you, I can think of 3 solutions:

(1) make bedtime later. 11h sleep at night is to be expected for another 6-12 months, so you do well to get 12h. If bedtime was 8pm, wake would probably be 7am ish

(2) try a dream feed. Not perminantly, just until this 11h hunger is grown out of. So lift, wake and feed baby when you go to bed. Add in a nappy change to help her feel more comfortable in the morning.

(3) just wait. Given you don't have to go in and settle her, switch the monitor into lie and leave her to go back to sleep. She'll grow out of it in time.

She's getting a hard time as her expectations are unreasonable.

You say this to women who's babies wake mutiple times fate.
Why not this women who was just completey rude to everyone

her expectations are unreasonable.

Meh, it's about context.

A cosleeping, free overnight access to the breast mum of a 13 month old who expects baby to start sleeping through by next month because she's now 'Had Enough' - she has unrealistic expectations.

A mum with a self settling, sleeping through 13 month old qwhos waking early (like the op)- not unrealistic expectations in my opinion.

OPs baby can certainly make these changes. Clearly has the capacity to in the way many babies don't. Just needs some tweaks, as mentioned in my previous post.

OP - it really shouldn't be difficult to make these changes. Your expectations for your 1 year old are well within realistic for your child.

My son is 18 months old and sleeps 7.15 til 7.15. We have our family tea at 5pm. Then he has his bath every night at 6.30pm then cows milk after bath. Both my boys have slept through from 5 weeks so i have been very lucky.

I agree with what pp said about the poo thing at 6 being what is waking the baby up. Nothing much you can do about that (although I think GF says something about protein at a certain time to prevent this? Don't think it works though). I don't think it is hunger as she wouldn't go back to sleep so quickly if she was hungry.