11 mth night waking due to teething ???

[Miraclelim]

My 11 mth dd is down to one nap startung this week. Suddenly last two nights she woke up crying chewing on her cloth. I know both her side incisors are about to cut thru. Don't know whether that is bother her. I gave her meds before bed at 1800 n she woke up at 11ish last night crying n rolling around I gave her some meds m she didnt go back to sleep till 0130 n slept till 0730 this am.
Last few days easy were

Mon (first day on one nap)
Wu 0615
Nap 1105-1305
Bedtime put down at 1800 didn't sleep till 1820
STTN till 0630
First long night since like 1 mth ago.

Tue didn't try 1 nap as was out n abt.
Wed
Wu 0630
Nap 1115-1245
Bedtime 0630
STTN

Thur
Wu 0620
Nap 1130-1245 ( won't go back to sleep again so left her in cot till 1330)
Bedtime put down 1815 but didn't sleep till 1840
NW 12ish whiny n crying chewing on her cloth gave her some meds and finally settled at 01ish.

Fri
Wu 0625
Nap 1105-1340( woke up at 1225 whiny for 2 min back to sleep then woke up at 1305 for 1 min whiny and back to sleep again) woke her up at 1340 as I want an early bedtime
As I got dinner party. I gave her meds before nap
Betime put down at 1810 slept at 1825 I also gave meds before bed.
Nw 23ish 40mins in bed rolling n sucking her cloth then crying wont settle back to sleep n finally 1230 gave some meds and at 01ish finally asleep till 0730.


Not sure what happened??? Maybe it's teething u think?
She hardly ever ever wake up at night. Has slep thru since like 6 wks. Only wakes up when she was sick or occasional teething. But not this long . Pls help. TIA

[Skadiver13]

Hi hun it really does sound like discomfrot I would just keep offering meds and see what happens. Although an 11 month old being on one nap could be OT as well. Any reason she is currently on one nap? 12hr day for one nap for an 11month my contribute to some OT, but it does sound like teething.

[Miraclelim]

I also don't think she is overtired. Bcos she is so happy full of energy all the time n she actually got more sleep in total 13.5 hr since on one nap rather than 12hr on 2 nap. Reason for transition was she had been refusing pm nap n it's also getting so close to bedtime. N bedtime is pushed back so late to 2000 but she still wakes up at 0600.
All I can put down to its teething. What do u think?

[Miraclelim]

Thanks skadiver13. Hopefully this is not going to last long. Not used to her having night wakes at all. Missing my sleep. Never has teething this bad. 

[Skadiver13]

OH hun I feel you. and I hate to say it is just sometimes the pits for some lo's. My ds did great teething until the 1yr molars and canines all came in at the same time right during his 18M sleep regression. This has been a joyous time for me (insert extreme sarcasm) You'll get through it. ((hugs))

[Miraclelim]

I have another one hr night wake again. 
Surely it has to be teething right.cant be overtired???
My easy yesterday
Wu 0730
Nap put down at 1200 didn't sleep till 1215-1345. Didn't pick her up till 1400
Bedtime put down at 1840. Didn't got to sleep till 1853.
Nw 0200 wake up rolling around whiny, gave meds at 0215 still cry n whiny then I pick her up rock n cuddle for 5 min then to her down. Didn't go to sleep till 3am.
Wake up at 0700.

What is wrong with my baby???  Is it overtired ? But is so happy during the day n wake up happy no crying or any tired signs....
What am I doing wrong?

[Layla]

I would be careful putting her on just 1 nap at this age and it is quiet possible she's overtired...it could just be teething but it could also be from being overtired. It's true that some babies are ok on 1 nap by at this age but most are not. I also put dd2 on 1 nap at around 11 months and then all sorts of stuff started happening (nap shortened, night wakings and yucky early wake ups) and we went back to 2 naps.

Just my thought

[Miraclelim]

How do I put her back on 2 naps? Should I put her down at a time 4 hr if wakes up at 7am? See how she goes? She has been refusing short catnap in the pm. I can't do bedtime any earlier than 6pm? What should I do? :-(
She used to sleep at 1030 when wake up at 0630.

[Layla]

From memory, you were doing the long am/short pm nap? You could probably try limiting her morning nap to 1.5hrs and try and APOP the catnap. We did the short am/long pm nap... did you try that at all?

[Miraclelim]

Yah I was on long am and short pm. Tried the other way around the other day it back fired. Had 30 mins in the morning. Then m only slept 30 min too. Very grumpy all day.

If I put down at 11am -1230
Then1600-1615
Then bedtime 1915?
This okie.

I was capping pm nap at 20 mins before but interfering with bedtime she won't sleep till almost 8pm. So I am thinking capping at 15 mins. And see how it goes. What do u think?

Thank you so much for your advise.

[Layla]

If you see that she's particularly cranky in the morning or she wakes up earlier, it may be worth trying for 2 naps that day. Remember that its not uncommon for bubs to have a longer day during the transition period so even if her bedtime is pushed to 8 pm, in my opinion that is fine until she's used to being on just 1 nap.

For me, being flexible was important - if my LO wasn't falling asleep in the morning, I would make that a 1 nap day and offer an earlier bedtime. If she looked like she needed a nap, I used to shorten in to make sure she would take her afternoon nap. Some days we only ended up with 2 short naps but that comes with the transition too I believe. If you want to protect her bedtime, then maybe try an even shorter catnap but again, I never did that with my LO.

Maybe rather than giving her a morning nap at 11; you could do 10.30 so it would be something like this:
6.30 - wake
10.30-12 - morning nap
3.30-4 - afternoon nap
7.30 - bed

Of course her night wakings could be from just teething rather than the routine she's on

[Skadiver13]

^^^This was our routine for the longest time until about 13M when we dropped the the AM nap and pushed it to 11:30.

[Miraclelim]

Surprisingly in sun I put her on two nap
Wu 0700
Nap 11-1230
Nap put down at 1600 didn't sleep till 1615-1635 woke her up
Bedtime put down 1915 asleep 1930 and no night wakes
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Yeah. Daddy puts her to bed first time as I was admitted to hospital
Wu this am 0626
Nap 1045-1215
Nap 2 daddy trying hard to put her down. Fingers crossed she sleeps

If again no night wake maybe she is OT even though she is so happy all thd time. Hmmmmm

[Layla]

Hope you're ok and it's nothing too serious.

Great to hear no NWs that night...it's funny you mention her looking happy and not tired during the day. Dd3 doesn't display any tired signs prior to being put down for a nap and would happily play if I left her to it but as soon as I take her to her room and put on the white noise, she starts sucking her thumb and will fall asleep in less than 5mins.

I would continue offering her that morning nap and if she's not taking the morning nap on a particular day, then let that be the 1 nap day and do an earlier bedtime

[Miraclelim]

Normally no prob with morning nsp because doing long am short pm. Pm is the one that always get refused. Just lying in cot happily sucking cloth. Hubby just rang and says she us not taking her pm nap. So I just ask him to go in n rock her.

I m feeling better going home later. Missing dd can't wait to cuddle her. Hope she sleeps thru tonight because mummy is exhausted!!!