does not sleep 12 hours

[karabara]

Hi,

In all of the books, and on this website, it says that the baby should sleep 12 hours.  My baby has never slept 12 hours.

She is asleep by 8pm or 8.30 at the latest....
and is awake by 6 am or 6.45 am at the latest.

So it seems like she is a 10 hour sleeper.  Am I doing something wrong? or does she just need 10 hours of sleep at night?
She usually wakes up ready to go....

Her schedule at 12 mos:
6 to 6.30 am wake up and BF
7.30 am Bfast
10 am 4 oz cow's mile
10.30 am nap until 12.30 pm
12.30 pm lunch
2 pm BF
3.30 pm snack
4 pm nap until 5 pm
5 pm BF
6 pm dinner
7.30 pm BF
8 pm to 8.30 pm asleep


12 hours would be great.......but it doesn't seem like it is going to happen?
any suggestions?  or should I go with what I've got?

[Purplecattypants]

How old is your LO?

[karabara]

duh sorry should have mentioned that..........

1 year old tomorrow

[Shiv52]

Happy birthday to your LO!!!

My LO is 13 months.  She has only been sleeping 11 hours at night for the last few months.  I think its a combination of not needing 12 hours and daytime sleep.  I am in the process of switching from 1 nap to 2 and night sleep is now about 11 hours 15 minutes.  She is doing really well with the longer A times too. 

Do you think your LO could cope with less daytime sleep and that may help the night sleep extend a bit?

[Silverblue]

I was about to post the same question!

My lo is 10 months, and has only slept 11 hrs a few times and 11.5hrs once.  He had been going to bed around 7:15 and waking at 5:45 for a while, which I decided was and early wake .. so tried the suggestions to stop this - cut his morning sleep to an hour (usually 1.5hrs +) and made sure he wasn't going down for it too early even if he woke very early.  I tried it for a week - he was very grumpy, and started waking up even earlier (due to being OT I guess?).  So I decided to stop doing it, but to push the nap start times a little so that he could wake from them later and go to bed later ... last night he went to bed at 7:45, asleep just before 8 and woke at 6:15 this morning. 

I am fairly happy with this (prefer it to 7pm - 5:30am!!) but I am concerned that he 'should' sleep longer at night ... clearly he makes up for the shorter night sleep in the day, and even with trying to shuffle this around it hasn't worked so should I just leave him alone and hope that once he starts having less day sleep in the day/one nap instead of two, he will naturally sleep longer at night?

[Hadley12]

My dd is 12 months and has never slept more than 10.5 hours at night and around 10/11 mos, started shrinking that to 9 - 9.5 hours at night! We've shortened day sleep to no more than an hour in the AM and 1.5h in the PM and nights are slowly getting longer. I do think some may need less sleep at night but as pps said, I think 3 hours of day sleep, especially so late in the afternoon, are shortening her nights. I don't think we'll have our nights past 10.5h until the 2 - 1 switch is complete.