18 month will only sleep for 10 hours at night

[M0NSTERGIRL]

Good morning.
My little boy (almost 18 months old) will seemingly wake for the day after a maximum of 10 hours of night sleep, usually around 5:15am, even if he’s woken in the night. He will also only have one nap of around 1hr30 in the day. Is this enough? I leave him in his cot till 6am, most of the time he’s happily babbling to himself, so I hardly ever go in before 6, to try and encourage him to sleep until atleast then. I’m just worried his wake windows are too long in the day, but weren’t long enough for him to have 2 naps. He’s been on this routine for a while now! Any help would be appreciated!

Your 18 month old sleeps for 10 hours straight overnight? And sleeps for 1.5 hours a day? That’s not a problem, that’s the dream!

You’re very luckY. Honestly. He’s fine. If he’s happy then he’s getting enough sleep.

My 16month has been sleeping 10hrs since 1yo. Never done a 12hr stretch. Goes to bed at 8pm, wake 6am, 2hr nap. What you said doesn’t sound concerning at all.

Sounds pretty good. That's great that he's ok to stay in bed. Unless his grumpy or overtired I wouldn't attempt to change it.

Sounds amazing. At that age mine woke up screaming every couple of hours!

Same here. Mine woke screaming (sleep apnea).

I'd be very thankful!

Honesty that sounds great. I'm still up in the night with my 7 year old!

DS was like this. Always needed a bit less than we hoped. Very bright hopefully off to Oxford in October with 4 A*s. NHS says is within normal limits. The only way to get 11 hours out of him by 18m was to cut the nap to 45 mins. Then he would go 7:30-6:30. Otherwise it was 8-6. By 6yo he had an 8:30 bedtime ALWAYS up by 7, usually 6:30

www.nhs.uk/live-well/sleep-and-tiredness/how-much-sleep-do-kids-need/

He is 18 next month and gets up at 6 to cook his lunch (complex Asian omletes) before school. Regularly awake at midnight there is nothing I can do. Db is similar.

Neither of my DC sleep/ever slept longer than 11 hours at night…

I used to worry about it with DC1 because everyone bangs on about 7-7 but she’s doing great and that’s just how she is (dropped her nap soon after turning 2 too ). DC2 seems to be the same.

My DD dropped daytime naps around the time of her 1st birthday unless she was ill. She was sleeping 10-11 hours a night. Usually a good sleeper but if she woke in the night she was dreadful to get back to sleep.

TBH a regular nap would have been really good.

I think that's perfectly normal. My son is nearly 2 years and has been sleeping 8pm to 6/7am with a couple of wakings to breastfeed since forever. He will sleep for several hours in the day if conditions are perfect, but normally has about an hour.

If your baby seems happy then assume the baby knows better than the books. They generally do

Average sleep for this age is 11-14 months, so he’s within that.

What time do you do the nap?

10 hours a night and a nap. That’s amazing. My 18 month old wakes a couple of times in the night and sometimes won’t go back to sleep

That seems normal/ good?

Ds is almost two. He’s never done more than 10 hrs overnight ( and wakes 1-2 times still)

He woke 6.30am today, refused nap, and now happily doing a puzzle at 8pm our time… on average he goes 8.30pm-6.30am (10hrs). Naps maybe 4 out of 7 days

I was up with my 18m old 3 times last night. I wish they'd sleep 10hours. Nap was 1hr10 today, but I had to be lying next to them for 45m of it. And your LO is happy babbling in their cot for 45m ish once they wake up too? Mine screams and wails as soon as their eyes try to open.

Did you sleep train? What did you do to achieve such good sleep?

Help with what exactly OP?

Wow.
I have nothing to say about this except from all of us parents with kids that DO NOT SLEEP EVER you need to count your blessings and find something else to moan about.
I would kill for this.

Wow, so many bitter people on here! OP is just asking if it's normal to sleep 10 hours rather than the textbook 12 hours we are all led to believe.

Yes it is normal. All babies are different and so are their sleep needs. My DS sleeps 10-11 hours a night and 1.5 hours in the day (most nights he wakes a few times during the night), and my DD used to sleep 12-13 hours straight at night abd 2 hours in the day!!

@OutlookStalking hope you don’t mind me getting in touch! I just wanted to ask how you know your LO had sleep apnea and how you got a diagnosis? I’ve just come across you comment by chance. My 19 month old wakes screaming also. The moment he wakes he cries, throws his head back and arches his back. He can wake anywhere between 1 (on a rare very good night) to 7 times, and sleeps with his mouth open. Everything I read says mouth breathing isn’t normal in toddlers. However I’ve watched a few videos of toddlers with sleep apnea, and he does nothing extreme/obvious other than the mouth breathing. I sleep in his room with him ever night and have watched him very carefully. He doesn’t snore much, and doesn’t appear to have obvious pauses in breathing followed by gasping breathes. Was sleep apnea obvious in your child? Hope things have improved for you x