****Is your baby 4/5, 8/9 or 12/13 months old and sleep has gone mad? Read this...****

[EffiePerine]

There seem to be a few posts recently on sleepp problems at these ages: this is a useful description of common sleep regressions:

moxie.blogs.com/askmoxie/2006/02/qa_what_are_sle.html

the conclusion seems to be

• it's normal
• it won't last for ever (honest)
• do what you can to get through

So basically I just have to live with the 3am playtime? Damn you woman...

nono IT GETS BETTER. Really it does. It's so easy to think a) your baby is a complete freak because every other baby you know is sleeping through and b) this will last for ever. It doesn't

I'll take your word for it now, but be warned I'll be back in a couple of months if he hasn't dropped our night-time playdate

so why is my 16 month old doing it?

moxie.blogs.com/askmoxie/2007/06/qareader_call_d.html

it doesn't stop after a year, it seems!

hmmm according to that it should be over by 18 months. we'll see.

This has reassured me a bit about my 9mo - going through the crawling, pulling up and teething stages all at once and we have one knackered grumpy baby with one knackered grumpy mummy!

well it has made me feel a bit better about my just about to be 8 month old so thanks

but not quite as much as a decent sleep would...

With you there, MrsJC!

I hope thats the reason I just had to post about my 12/13 month DD not napping!

The 8/9 month period was awful for us. Just when we'd got used to the occasional longer stretch DS was waking all the time again.

was just about to post asking why my 9mo has been waking 3 times a night for the last 6 weeks after sleeping 12 hrs a night for the previous 5 months!

but what if your too tired to read the link !!

He is not sleeping day or night for longer that 15/20 mins

Julez that's awful . How old is he?