12 month sleep regression?

[19annie86]

My almost 12 month old this past few weeks has started waking alot at night, it starts every hour after being put down, and then sometimes during the night it's every 20 till 30 minutes, I can see her on the monitor she initially wakes and sits up, if I wait a while she then would cry a little but not full on crying.

She has never self settled which it my fault I know but besides that, as soon as I pick her up and sit down her eyes close again, I don't set her back in straight away I wait maybe 10 minutes, sometimes if I'm lucky when I set her in that's it, but others as soon as she touches the cot she roll and sits straight back up. She had always been fine at sleeping, might have woke once in the night.

Is anyone else going through this and did it last long, it is starting to get so difficult at the minute with lack of sleep

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Her not self-settling is not your fault! It's entirely normal for babies to need support to fall asleep, and how you initially get her down doesn't mean she can't link sleep cycles or continue sleeping when she wakes at night. And if she was sleeping well until this new development then she CAN do those things! She just currently needs more help and is going through something. Mine isn't quite 11 months yet so I haven't experienced this, but frequent waking like this can often indicate physical discomfort - is she teething, cold, hot, fighting a cold, ear infection? Especially with wanting cuddles to comfort I would think it could be that she's not feeling great?

Totally agree.

Thank you for your reply, she has teeth coming through at the minute, but what makes me think it's not teething is that she doesn't seem distressed or in pain, for a few nights I did give her medicine to help but still had the same wake up. She is trying to take her first steps at the minute so maybe development related, I'm not sure