10 month old sleeping too much, should I worry?

[Pickle0901]

Hi all,
just wanted to get other peoples thoughts… I’m getting quite concerned about the amount of sleep my 10 month old is having… she goes to bed about 7:30 and sleeps for about 12 hours.
She does mooch in between and has some milk but she stays in the cot.

The thing I’m concerned about is that she only stays up for about 2-3 hours and then she will sleep for 2-3 hours. I usually end up having to wake her because we have to either pick my older
daughter up from nursery or it’s time to have something to eat and I want her to have some play time before bed.

i see when we are doing things that she gets very tired and looks tired. And I don’t think we do too much.

any advice? Should I get some blood tests or am I being paranoid. My eldest daughter has never napped and always fights sleep, so I’m conscious that I have that as a benchmark.

thanks

hello
you say dd is 10months, have you had your 9month health visitor check yet?
if not mention it then, if you have, it may be worth trying to get another appointment.

i work in early years. Some children love sleep, some don’t.

if your child is waking at 7am, and having a nap again at 9.30am, that would make sense to me.
if that first nap, is 2-3 hours, and then she naps again at 2-3hours later, does that mean her time awake is around 7 hours within a 24hr period? Just trying to make sense of your post.
on the surface it seems like a lot, ideally a 10month old routine would be something like this;

7am wake
9.30am nap
10.30am wake
2pm nap
3.30pm wake
7pm bed

babies aren’t robots so they won’t always do that but that would be a rough guide

12 hours overnight is at the top end, but not unusual. My 12 month old does 12 hours with about 2 wakes. But she only has 2 little naps. Usually you'd only want to limit naps if baby wasn't sleeping well at night. If you think she is struggling with energy, and particularly if that's a new thing, try making sure she has lots of iron rich foods. If you're breastfeeding, iron reserves drop after 6 months so important to offer iron foods, or you could try a supplement.

I am a first time mum so no older kids to compare with, however, what you describe sounds perfectly normal to me based on my own, limited, experience.
Our baby is nine and a half months old and manages at least twelve hours sleep at night. She's formula fed and is having three substantial meals a day now so generally doesn't want a bottle overnight, sometimes she will wake and want one but usually, the only thing she wakes up for is if her dummy has fallen out and she can't find it! Also, like yours, she tends to mess about in her cot for a bit before she summons us, we can hear her babbling and clanging about on the monitor so know she's awake but let her have a moment to wake up properly before we descend on her. She has a toy which hangs over the top bar of the cot, which she can only access when standing up so it's quite safe. It has a lot of bits on it to fiddle with and she usually amuses herself with that for a bit until she wants us, then she presses a button on the toy that plays a tune, if one of us isn't in there after a couple of presses of that then she starts shouting, but we know the music is telling us we've been summoned so she doesn't usually have to shout as we're in there straight away
She sleeps in her own room now. We hadn't planned to move her so soon but she was constantly standing up in the Next To Me basinet and hanging over the edge so it just wasn't safe any more and the big cot won't fit in our bedroom, so we had to make the move. She's actually been sleeping great since we moved her, I think my husband and i moving around, albeit quietly, was disturbing her, and we can hear her every move through the baby monitor so it's fine.
The only difference to yours is that she doesn't sleep much in the daytime, maybe half an hour nap once a day but the rest of the time she's dashing round all the time. She's on the cusp of walking so seems to view any time when she's awake and not standing up and crusing around furniture wasted! Maybe that's why she sleeps so well at night. However, she does go to bed earlier than yours, largely because, having not really rested much during the day, she's starting to be grouchy and rubbing her eyes come about 5pm so we give her dinner, get her bathed and changed and do the bedtime bottle and she's happy to be put in her cot at about 6pm, which I know seems early but definitely seems to be the time she naturally crashes so we go with what works for her. I think you're completely right to just go with what's working for your baby since every one is going to have such different preferences and routines. As long as your little one is happy and seems well I honestly wouldn't worry. All the best!

How many hours does she slee During the day OP? There is a huge range of normal

Thanks for all the responses. She sleeps about 4-5 hours per day over 2 naps and I honestly think she’d sleep about 6 if I didn’t wake wake her…

Sorry bit what does mooch about mean and having some milk. Is she rousing for a bit and awake?