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Should I be worried?

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Rowlie · 01/01/2023 10:55

My DS 15mo has started waking for up to an hour and a half in the night. Last night it was at 3-4.30am, the night before 1.30am. This has been going on for a few weeks.

He is not crying. He chats, shouts out, babbles, bangs his cot - so I don’t have to go to him but it surely can’t be good for him to be losing this much sleep during the night. I think he’s only getting about max 12.5 hours total per day, sometimes less.

He is the process of transitioning to 1 nap around 12ish. On a good day this will be 2 hours but sometimes only 1h30. He also sometimes still has half an hour at 9.30 ish (I wake him from this so he will sleep again at lunch). If this happens he has a later lunch nap (1.30pm ish).

He has got teeth coming through but I don’t think he’s waking with tooth pain as he isn’t upset. He is then sometimes up for the day at 5.30am. But usually if he wakes for an hour or so in the night he does sleep in longer until 6-7am but I hear him every hour stirring from 5am.

Does anyone have any ideas - should I be worried?

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Mistonthemountains · 01/01/2023 19:13

This is a split night. Nothing to worry about - just really bloody annoying and tiring.

Rowlie · 01/01/2023 20:17

@Mistonthemountains yes I have heard of split nights however it seems to suggest this is a much longer awake time (2-3hours). He is up for around an hour sometimes a bit more but not close to 2 hours. Also he seems to go in and out of sleep in this time.

What causes a split night and is there anything I can do?! Again the internet seems to suggest it’s caused by too much sleep which I don’t think can be the case for my DS!

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sunflowerandivy · 01/01/2023 20:50

We had split nights during the 3-2 nap transition. Stopped as soon as we consistently had 2 naps. I would just stop the two nap days entirely. Cut total daytime sleep to 2 hours. Maybe even 1.5 hours

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