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12-13 month old split nights - help!

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Mum0015 · 01/08/2024 10:03

Our youngest started with what we think are split nights at 11 months and is still in the thick of it at now 14 months. We've noticed a pattern that she will wake somewhere about 2/3am and is generally wide awake for 2-2.5 hours. As you can imagine, we are at our wits-end, and we have tried everything to address what could be causing it. She is well fed, bottle at bed (7pm), dreamfeed at 11pm. White noise, dark room and dressed to suit the temp. She naps for 30-45 minutes in the morning and then has 1-1.5 hours in the afternoon but never past 3pm. We are considering dropping her morning nap but it will be a real struggle to get her to midday especially when she is up half the night before (last night was 3.30-6am!). If anyone else has experienced this I would really appreciate any tips/help/advice. Our last resort will be a sleep therapist but I fully expect all they will say is she needs to cry it out which we have tried, she just continuously cries for hours and in turn wakes our other child up.

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Haynesy · 01/08/2024 22:22

I’m sorry you’re in split night hell at the moment! My boy is nearly 15 months and started this at 11 months too. At 12 months we moved to one long nap in the middle of the day (2.5/3 hours) and it sorted it after a week. Worth a try, it may take a while to adjust to the one nap though - we had good few days of awfulness during the transition.

teaandkittehs · 03/08/2024 21:07

When we dropped to one nap we initially started the nap at 11am, and only moved it to 12 over time. You don't have to keep your little one awake until midday at first. Split nights are awful, i really hope dropping a nap fixes it. We had to extend wake windows and cut nap time as we were already down to one nap. Luckily the split nights were sporadic and we think they are over now. Good luck x

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