9 month old sleep up and down

[newmummytonoah2016]

Hi looking for some sanity or to know I'm not alone.

My 9 month old has always been a pretty rubbish sleeper and only slept through a few times since being born, the last couple of weeks she has treated us to about 4 or 5 nights sleeping through. Sadly not all in a row, you get one or two good nights sleeping followed by an absolutely dreadful one! Where she will wake up and be wide awake generally whinging for a couple of hours.

In the midst of this she's cut a tooth (possibly 2) so we put that down to some of it, but she slept through the last two nights so thought she was maybe over that until tonight! Where she's just had another 2 hour party and woken the whole house up (I've got a 2 year old to add to the fun). Oh and she's just mastered crawling!

I'm just wondering why it's so up and down? My first baby was a dream for sleeping unless he was poorly or teething, my little girl on the other hand is a nightmare! She decided to skip her second nap today so I'm wondering if this has made her overtired as they don't tend to sleep as well do they if they are overtired?

Any advice would be brill 😴

Does your little one have a mid-nightly feed?

My son, until he was about 1.5, would wake up around 2am for milk. He would immediately fall back to sleep after feeding. If he didn't have one, he wouldn't sleep properly and could be a handful.

Being overtired, like you said, made a huge difference to night sleep quality as well. It's probably not a huge help, but I found with my son, once he had a nappy change, fed, hurled, cuddle, he wouldn't really get a choice. We had a video monitor as well if he was being difficult, so would sit and watch that and time when to go check on him. The days he was extra difficult (like when we went on holiday) I would BF, cradle him and sing to him. I still sing one specific song for soothing and one specific one for bedtime, when needed. Maybe you could try training her to that? Good luck xxx

I think they do some sort of chamomile teething powder as well, you can give to her. We would give our son that just before bed and when he woke up in the night, when he was teething. I don't know if he just liked it for being sweet, but worked a charm.

Thank you for your reply!

She doesn't have a set time really that she feeds, usually when she stirs we top her up with bottle and go from there really. But she sometimes just gets really squirmy and wriggly in your arms like she won't settle again and other time she drifts off a dream after some more bottle, it's real pot luck.

I thought I'd figured the pattern was with her naps as the days she skipped her afternoon nap seemed to be the days we had a real struggle with her. But yesterday she didn't nap in the afternoon and slept until 4.20 from 7 and went back down until 8, so did really well. Where as tonight she just woke about an hour ago and is on and off stirring now. Doesn't seem to be any pattern to it what so ever. Xx

There is a 9 month sleep regression. My lb is all over the place at the moment and screaming loads

I feel your pain! My little girl is just the same, she's so up and down. After this post we got more nights sleeping through than not. Since I've found she's cutting her top teeth and has mastered crawling and pulling herself up in the last week or two she's becoming a bit of a monkey in the night again. Last night she screamed for ages, woke up just before 11 and I don't even know what time she gave in. She's so wriggly when she wakes up like she wants to be put on the floor to crawl about so it's hard holding her and settling her back down.

I'm hoping it's another passing phase either due to her teeth or that she's just got so much going on in her head from learning all these new skills. I just hope we get sleep again soon 🙈