Please could you advise me on what you think is going on. My baby is nearly 13 months and her sleeping patterns have suddenly changed. She is having a 3 hour sleep in the morning (used to be 90 minutes), and then another hour or so in the afternoon, or she missed the afternoon nap altogether. If she misses the afternoon nap she is incredibly restless while sleeping at night. Over the last week she has started waking up at around 12am/1am and will not go back to sleep for about 90 minutes. We've had to resort to rocking her or popping her in our bed as we are both so shattered and to sit next to her cot while she cries to be held kills myself and my husband.
Her routine is as follows:
5am wake up
6am bottle
7am breakfast
8:30am sleep (3 hours)
12pm lunch
3:30pm nap (fights to go down/sometimes won't nap at all so we resort to a walk in the pram to just calm her down and give her some quiet time)
5pm dinner
6pm bath
7pm bottle and bed
If she doesn't get her afternoon sleep she wakes every hour for the first two or three hours after she's been put down to bed, just for a dummy and then goes back to sleep, no rocking or picking up required.
Regardless of whether she sleeps in the afternoon or not, she still wakes in the earliest hours of the morning for an extended night waking!
Last night she was up for about 90 minutes and then woke up for her day at 4:45am........I'm so so tired I could cry.
Would be open to any advice or help, please!
With love
Cleo
