Frequent night wakes

[FirstTimeMummy2021]

Currently having a tough time with my 14mo sleep. He has recently dropped to 1 nap and has all 4 of his first molars currently breaking through but his sleep has gone drastically down hill.

We are currently breastfeeding to sleep at bedtime and for all wakes, which I'm happy with. Hes waking every 2 hours but settles with a quick feed. I'm struggling as not getting sufficient sleep myself and am working part time.

Does anyone have any ideas about what causes frequent night wakes? Or is it likely to be teeth, walking (also took first steps recently), developmental? If teeth, how long do the molars take to fully erupt?

I'm not going to sleep train, Happy being responsive overnight.. but will tweak daytime naps, wake window, etc if anyone has any advice!

If LO wasn't previously waking every 2 hrs I would say it would be the teeth and the nap drop causing this. Both will resolve themselves with time.

If lots of night waking was already an issue I think that gently nightweaning would probably greatly reduce the waking. Although I wouldn't bother til a time when baby has stopped teething, just giving yourself a harder job if you did it now.

Good luck op!

That's the magic question isn't it

My DD 18 months has been having her canines through the last 2-3 weeks and I am exhausted. We co-sleep and we bf and I am just exhausted.

I know a lot of children have their 1 nap at lunch time until maybe 2pm and then go to be 7ish, that doesn't work for us. My daughter is better off having a sleep in the morning then a loooong stretch for sleep pressure

You could try that?

Remember it's all a phase and they will all get there

Thank you both. He used to sleep really well (10 hours straight overnight) until he hit 8 months, and then it changed. But I'd go back to those initial 'bad' nights happily now with one or two wakes. I think we need to look at the time of his nap and just see, interesting that your daughter has an earlier nap @RedRobyn2021

My heart says to carry on, that it won't last forever. But those night wakes are a killer!

Just an update for anyone else in the future, I've reintroduced a 2nd nap (short) in case he was overtired at bedtime and hiding it! He's slept much better since! Still waking overnight but sleeping for longer than 30mins!