13 month old going backwards?

[Himsher84]

Hi everyone
We’ve had problems before with sleep but around 10 months DD settled and was sleeping roughly 7.30-7 every night with 2.5hours of naps in the daytime.
She’s turned 13 months old today and for the past week she’s up at 6am (give or take 10mins either side). We leave her in the cot and she dozes for 10mins every so often but will not go back to a proper sleep.
Her room is blacked out and she has white noise consistently
I’ve tried adjusting naps (both slightly longer and shorter) but have made no difference.
She struggles to wake from naps and is also asleep within 10mins of being in the cot every night (rocked to sleep for naps otherwise she just screams the house down or plays despite being tired)
Current routine

Awake 6-6.20
7.45 breakfast (refuses to eat before then)
9.45 cows milk usually 5-6oz
10-11/11.15 first nap
12pm lunch
2pm snack
2.45 cows milk usually 6-7oz
3-4pm asleep
6.45 bedtime routine
7.10 cows milk usually 6-7oz
7.30-7.35 asleep

I’ve tried giving longer naps and putting down later still up at 6
Shorter naps so there’s longer between last nap and bedtime - still up at 6
My next step will be shorter naps and then earlier bedtime but I’m really scared she’ll then start getting up at 5am instead
Having an older child and the school run etc I’m exhausted and also feeling trapped in the house as she’s usually so tired that baby groups become a screaming match
Checking wonder weeks it says leap 8 is week 55 (she’s 56) so that’s now so is that all it could be?

Any tips or advice is great as we were following huckleberry care routine and she was doing it to a t and I was getting some good sleep but now it’s all out of the window

Forgot to put dinner is at 5pm

I would suggest

Nap 1:
9am nap (as soon as back from school run).
9.45am wake

Nap 2:
12.30pm
Wake up for school run - 2.30-3pm?

Mine dropped to one nap a day at 13 months of about 2.5 hour. Could you try that?

Tbf my DD (18 months) still only sleeps till 6:30 and takes until 8pm to drift off (bed at 7:30pm). She just doesn’t need as much sleep as she used to.

Today we are trying 9.30-10.30 then 2-3.15 and up to bed at 6.30 to be asleep for 7.15

Luckily hubby is around today to pick DS up from school at 3

Boondia

She can get to 10am at the latest if she’s up at 6 and then she’s screaming with tiredness so I don’t think she’s there yet with the one nap
If the differing naps don’t work then I’ll start letting her have a 30-45min nap in the morning and then a 2 hour nap later on around 1 and if she that helps as then it will start the basis for pushing through for a 12-3 nap everyday

This week is going to be hard anyway as we have her last set of jabs today, dentist on Wednesday at 9, her baby group Thursday at 9.30-10.15 so I need her to back into a routine so I can plan around it hence why the baby group we started last week as she wasn’t napping until 10.30

I think her second nap is too late. Think @FATEdestiny has made a good suggestion, although I’d be tempted to have a shorter nap in the morning

@ChelseaCat

I think her second nap is too late. Think *@FATEdestiny* has made a good suggestion, although I’d be tempted to have a shorter nap in the morning

That’s what we are thinking too at this moment in time Thursday she has baby group at 930-10.15 and then falls asleep in the car for 30mins after so then she goes up for her second nap and is asleep for roughly 1.30-3 and then bed for 7.15 so if that works then we’ll start doing short nap in the morning and longer in the afternoon so she’s awake for longer before bed

Hope it improves for you OP 👍🏼

Update
Monday was a write off as we had jabs and it made her ill so she went to sleep for 7, was up at 2am for 20mins as she has been a little sick and then back to sleep until I woke her up at 7.15 Tuesday morning

Following on yesterday 10-11 and 2.30-3.30 naps she was up to bed and asleep for 7.15 again
She’s woken for the dummy at 5.40 this morning (typically I can’t get back to sleep now!) and hopefully resettling as I need to her to sleep as we have the dentist at 9am so we can then get back for her first nap

Honestly don’t know what else to do now as she can’t go longer than 3hrs after waking without a nap in the morning so I’m having to miss out on things to get her home in time for naps because she keeps waking so early

UPDATE: due to a baby class yesterday she ended up with one short nap and one longer one and it still didn’t make a difference
She woke at 5.55am for the dummy and then eventually settled back to sleep about 50mins later
Instead of me then waking her at 7.15 for the school run hubby is at home so he’s done the school run and she’s still asleep!
Waking her in a minute so we can eat go to the shop and baby group before lunch and one long afternoon nap for however long she wants (but upto 3hours Max!) letting her take the lead now after a couple of weeks of 6am wakings and two day naps I’ve decided to just go for the one nap and see what effect it has as getting up at 5am is the same as 6am isn’t it?

I’ll just do some days with one nap depending what time she wakes - ie I’m not going to wake her as now hubby works from home I can do school run while he gets her up and then other days if need be two shorter naps depending on waking times

I need to do this for my sanity as well as coping with my PNA

Wish me luck!