Sleep-trained nearly one-year-old tearful before naps and bedtime again

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This is more out of interest than worry as we’re v lucky with DDs sleep but wondered if anyone else had gone through the same.

She’s always been good at sleeping once down but was taking forever to actually go to sleep so we did some sleep training (going in and out of the room at increasing intervals) at 10 months which worked a dream and after 10 days she was able to settle for naps and bedtime with zero tears, either falling asleep straight away or just chatting to herself and drifting off.

But recently she has started crying when we put her down again, and it can take up to half an hour of going in and out to settle her. She does go off in the end, though more from exhaustion than anything else I think, sleeps well and wakes up in a lovely mood so not too worried but just wondered if this was a development stage (I guess everything is at this age?!)

Context: She’ll be one in two weeks and is standing and cruising lots and can walk (slightly wobbly) holding one hand of an adult which is new. Often now when she cries when we put her down, she pulls herself to standing in her cot while she does so.

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It could be a developmental leap or part of a sleep regression?? DD1 (now nearly 3) was sleep trained at 6 months and throughout her whole sleep life since then has at periods refusing to fall asleep but it only lasted a small while. One of the culprits was that she needed to drop a nap at around the 1 year mark (to one a day) so she was actually getting too much sleep and finding it hard to fall asleep at night. How many naps is your DD getting?

Thank you for your reply. She is still on 2 naps a day (around 9am and 1/1.30pm) both around 90 mins so I def feel like she still needs both.

Yesterday the crying before naps was shorter than previously (though it was my husband doing them rather than me so that might have impacted it) so hopefully it is just a developmental thing??

Look up sleep regressions as it may play a part, lots of developmental things are a happening around the 1 year mark! I would leave dd to it for around 30 mins but if she continued to cry I’d get her up and go about my day as if she had napped, she was very cranky however it soon passed and she soon decided to take those naps perhaps she overcame her tiredness or perhaps she realised sleep was the best option