My almost 14 month old daughter has never slept longer than nine hours at night. I know 9 hours is brilliant, it’s taken us a really long time to get here and her in her cot not co-sleeping. We’re all better for it, but the 5am wake ups are getting to me.
She’s up at 5am
Nap around 9am for an hour
Nap around 2pm for an hour or so.
Then bath, story and bed by 7pm, but she’s never asleep until 8pm.
She’s then up at 5am, sometimes 4.30!
We’re at a point where we sing her to sleep, we’ve gone from only BF to sleep to now cuddles and down in her cot, she charges around and sings back for about an hour before relenting. It works, I never thought we’d get here, it was gentle and I’m glad we got here, but I’m also getting a bit bored of laying on her bedroom floor singing twinkle twinkle every bloody night for an hour! Also having to go to bed at 9pm so no real evening!
I’m wondering if it’s a nap thing? Should I try to go for one nap? But she seems to really need that morning one! Possibly because she’s up at 5am 🙄 any ideas?