1 Year Old Waking in the night for 2 hours wide awake

[Charlotte74]

I am new to this site and have been reading some of the post but don't understand some of the abbreviations sorry!!!

My daughter has for the past week been waking up at 2am until 4am wide awake playing but sometimes screaming (not crying)!!! She shares a room with her twin brother and sometimes she wakes him too!

I have tried teething gel i have tried giving her a bottle at night but she still doesn't settle!

I don't pick her up don't make eye contact with her when i go in to her which can be up to 8 times during the awake time! I have checked to see if she has any teeth coming through but nope none on there way!!

I am desperate for some advice

She has a good routine

Wake at 8am

Breakfast at 9am

Nap at 11.30am (for 1 hour)

Lunch at 1pm

Dinner at 5pm

Bath at 6pm

Bed with bottle at 7pm

She is a good eater.

Any advice would be great, but please don't use any abbreviations or if you do can you please let me know what they mean!! I will get the hang of them once i get to understand them promise!

Desperate for some help or advice as i am soooooo tierd.

Kind regards xx

[Julianne1984]

Blimey, *hugs* to you, I know how it can be as my LO used to do this 10-midnight!! We figured it was because he was not tired enough to be sleeping. But I think as your little one (LO) is 12months old, 6.5hours is a bit long to go before bedtime! My LO is 16months now and can do 6hours at an absolute push. Have you tried moving the morning nap later in the day?? If she's getting up at 8 and going to bed at 7pm I'd expect maybe something like this:

A: (Awake) 8-12:30 (awake for 4.5hours)
S: (Sleep) 12:30-1:30
A: 1:30-7 (awake for 5.5hours)

Or even put the nap right back at 1-2...?

I think it could very well be over tiredness at bedtime. My LO wakes a few times before midnight now if he's too tired at bedtime. Is there any reason the nap is so early in the day? If you need to keep it that time could you move bedtime earlier, which will mean wake-up earlier and the nap stays the same time? Hope that helps! (HTH) There are some people on here with a lot more experience than me on here and I'm sure thy'll be along soon to help a bit more xx

[Charlotte74]

Thank you Julianne

I will try and put her nap time to 12.30 and see what happens i will try anything at the moment as i am at the end of my teather with lack of sleep!!!

I put my LO to bed at 11 as she gets a bit wingee then.

I am actually trying today no squash just water just in case its the ingredient's in the squash even tho i buy no added sugar squash.

Thank you for your help and advice

Regards

[Julianne1984]

It could very well be that putting her down too soon for the nap (even if she is whingy) could be why the nap is only 1hour aswell... if she's not tired enough for that she'll wake up early... getting the timing right with one nap you should be able to get 2hours out of her... It's trial and error really. Try to keep her entertained a bit longer each day or two and gradually move it. Doing it too fast could cause the opposite, over tiredness (OT) and would probably give more problems. I found that when I thought my little one was tired he was actually bored! I gave him new things to do, and saved certain favourite toys for the time i needed to keep him going longer xx