10mo sleeping between 12-13 hours a day?

[goodmorningsunny]

Hiya. I have a gadget called an owlet that measures my daughters sleep. Despite the fact that she's in bed 7.30on and wakes at 6.30am, and has 2x 1 or 1.5 hour naps, she only manages between 12-13 hours sleep a day. I've seen in some places it say she needs minimum 14, some places even say 16!

She is quite cranky a lot of the time and I wonder if this is to do with this. I just don't know how to make her sleep more! She has white noise, eats and drinks well, blackout blinds and a quiet house.

No babies are the same my 6 month ds has on average 12 hours a day and will not have any more I use the baby tracker app to record it. As long as your dd is warm, fed and clean and she still won't sleep she may not need the extra sleep. I drove myself crazy and upset my DS trying to get him to sleep longer, and I've admitted defeat and just going with the flow 😊 x

she is having a huge amount of sleep, far more than many. What do you think is going to happen if some random app judges that she should be getting more?

Sleep wise ots not too bad! 11 hours at night which is great. Naps could probably go slightly longer, depends if its mostly just an hour at a time. How often is she doing 1.5hours? My 10 month old does 1 hour in the morning and then 1.5 in the afternoon. Also depends on the times of the naps. I try to get him to sleep as late as possible, so 1/ 1 30pm till 3pm as he gets really cranky early evening.

My DS is 3, sleeps 14 hours a day and has done since he was 5 months. Just loves his sleep, perfectly active and healthy.

I'd say if you're worrying about it to this extent then it's probably time to ditch the monitor to be honest.

It sounds like she's getting plenty of sleep, way more than many her age and the monitors don't track accurately anyway. You can't force her to sleep more but you can remove the source of your anxiety over her sleep.

I have an owlet too. I like it. My almost 10 month old sleeps 10-11 hours a night (broken with a few wakes still) and has 2.5 hours naps a day. The maximum she will sleep is 12.5/13 hours a day. She wakes at 5-5:30 am most mornings. Nothing I can do to get it later! I had to cut nap lengths to max 2.5 hours as we were having split nights where she'd wake for hours in the night. She is warm, has white noise, blackout etc.

The source of anxiety is not the monitor. The monitor also records heart rate and oxygen sats. The source of the anxiety is all the websites and baby sleep guides that say 14-16 hours a day sleep needed

My DS is nearly two and has always averaged about 13 hours of total sleep per day. Some kids just need less.

A routine does work best for him, so we’ve been quite strict on that.

Very normal. My 9 month old does very similar and if we try to get more sleep into him then split nights and early mornings start. Lots of websites and apps such as huckleberry give the higher ends of average baby sleep. The cynic in me thinks they do it deliberately so parents worry and then they can sell you their plans to “fix” your babies sleep.