Impact of walking on sleep

[PurplePetalPip]

Hi all, I'm looking for other parents' experiences on whether learning to walk impacted sleep. DS is 15 months and has never been a brilliant sleeper but with some sleep training we got him to sleeping through until about 4:30/5.

However, recently he's reverted to waking a lot, sometimes after only 20 minutes, other times after a couple of hours, and at 3:30 he seems ready to start the day!

All in all he's probably only getting 8 hours sleep. We've been limiting day sleep to 2 hours as well but this doesn't seem to help.

The only thing I haven't ruled out is that he's on the verge of walking independently. He can take a few steps and walk with me holding his hands, and we've been practising a lot during the day.

So 2 questions really:

1. Did learning to walk disrupt your LO's sleep?
2. Did sleep improve once walking?

Honest answers please! I need to be prepared if things won't get better!

Yep definitely! Crawling, walking and now at 18 months she's trying to speak proper sentences, she wakes up chatting I. The middle of the night.
I'm at work on night at the moment and DH sent me a voice note of her chatting on the monitor at 1am for almost an hour.
When she was learning to walk, we used to find her walking in her cot in the middle of then night. All fun and games 🤣

And yes sleep did improve as she got tired from running and walking. But I should warn you that her brother walked and talked earlier than her and his sleep was the pits! Never improved and even at age 9 he's not a great sleeper and never has a lie in.

@mishmased oh it really is a rollercoaster isn't it! Just when you think you've got one thing cracked, along comes another change to throw you a curveball. I'm just clinging on to any tiny hope at this stage that once walking is mastered it might settle things a bit, but then I'm sure something else will come along.

@mishmased your little one chatting on the monitor sounds adorable though!

Absolutely! When my DS figured out crawling he'd wake up and crawl round his cot at all hours, that started to improve and I though phew! Then he learnt to walk and he would wake and mince around for a bit. It was exhausting all over again. Sometimes he was still asleep though so would then flop back down and sleep on. He's now just under 2 and I'm still creeping round, holding my breath, crossing my fingers that nothing wakes the baby god.
Solidarity!

@firstbabyworries oh god I know that feeling of dread that the baby could wake at any minute! And then DP goes stomping round, knocking everything off the bathroom sink, slamming doors!

Thank you for replying though, it's useful to be able to put the current situation down to something, even if I know as soon as it passes another issue will come along to take its place!