Complete change in sleep habits - 13 month old

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Any advice welcome please. 13 month old's sleep has completely changed overnight. 8am wake ups are now 6am, 1.5 hour naps are now only 45 minutes and there is a lot of crying. I could maybe understand if bedtime was earlier but it isn't. We're still somehow hitting a 9pm-10pm bedtime.

Yesterdays example, woke at 7am, 45 min nap at 10:30, 1 hour nap at 3:30 then didn't sleep until 9:30. Woke at 6:30 this morning and only recently fell asleep for her first nap which I can guarantee will be 45 minutes again. Is that enough sleep? It doesn't feel like it because she still wakes frequently at night. She doesn't sleep longer than 3 hours without waking.

Has anyone else been through this?

Hopeful bump :( another disastrous bedtime.

How does she get to sleep?

She's not getting anywhere near enough sleep in a 24hr period, so the issue could be that she's massively overtired. If I were you I'd spend a few days doing literally anything that works to get her to sleep - car, pram, cosleeping etc so that she catches up. Then you'll probably find it gets a bit better.

I’d say it’s time for 1 nap, either c. 11am for c2hrs or - if not napping, have lunch at 11.30 and sleep straight after- up no later than 2.30pm.
id say the early wake ups are pretty normal but that you’re battling bed time because they napped mid afternoon. Most 1 year olds should be awake for c. 6hrs min before waking from nap and bed time

@MolliciousIntent Fed to sleep 99% of the time. We already co-sleep and she has a feed whenever she wants during the night.

@OnlyFoolsnMothers That sounds great in theory but the nap is never 2 hours long. Her first nap today was 45 minutes so there is no chance she's making it to bed time without another nap. We've tried days with 1 nap and she is even harder to settle, and then wakes up even more frequently during the night. She just doesn't seem ready for 1 nap yet.

I would say massively overtired.

Also the problem I see which a lot of people probably don't like is lo is feeding to sleep so they expect it everytime they wake to get into next sleep cycle. They need to go into their cot fully awake to be able to self settle in there.