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11 months - not a terrible sleeper but room for improvement. Advice would be appreciated.

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Eskdale2004 · 24/04/2020 21:21

My almost 11 month old DD is on the whole a very contented baby.

She will settle (with the help of a dummy) for one big nap per day for 2/3 hours (she’ll usually go down between 1-1:30pm.)

We have a bedtime routine which consists of a bath, bottle, story and sleep. She will usually settle herself on a night. Sometimes she protests and I’ll go into her shhh and rub her tummy which seems to calm her and work eventually. She goes down between 8:30-9pm. Then she wakes at anywhere from midnight - 3 in the morning. She refuses to settle anywhere else than in bed with myself and OH at that point. Sometimes she’ll go straight back to sleep but other times she can be awake for 2/3 hours. She’ll wake several times during the night in our bed but is usually easily settled by putting her dummy in and having a snuggle.

Unfortunately we don’t have the option of putting her in her own room at the moment. Ideally, it would be great if she would settle herself back to sleep once she’d woken up without having to put her into bed with us.

We’ve also found out recently that we’re expecting another arrival in November (we’re getting an extension this year - don’t panic!) so it would be great if she was sleeping in her own bed and settling herself too.

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missanony · 24/04/2020 21:27

That’s a tricky one. Is she warm enough?

I think when they want to party for a few hours it’s usually developmental. If she’s doing well for the most part I’d try to ride it out & hope it passes. Sharing a room makes it very difficult so beyond not engaging with her or talking to her, I don’t really have a suggestion

missanony · 24/04/2020 21:28

It might be worth ditching the dummy on the off chance she’s waking for it

Eskdale2004 · 24/04/2020 21:42

@missanony absolutely agree regarding the room sharing. It’s not helping matters. We’re slowly phasing the dummy out - she doesn’t have it during the day now just for naps and bedtime. The natural next step would be to remove it for naps but I didn’t know whether to replace it with something? Such as a muslin, blank is, teddy or whether that’s just defeating the object.

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missanony · 24/04/2020 21:46

I didn’t replace it. We lost our last one and dd just seemed to forget it.

mummyrose28 · 25/04/2020 00:54

I would reduce the nap! 2/3 hours is too long.

Try 1hr 30. My DD did that and slept 7pm to 7am from 12 months.

Good luck you are doing great Daffodil

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