Sleeping all over the place

[2girls&1boy]

Hi Everyone,

I am hoping someone might be able to give me some advice. My DD is almost 12mths old and up until now has been a great daytime sleeper.

She is currently sleeping from 6:30pm-6:30am which is great and not the problem!!

She was sleeping for about 1 - 1 1/2 hours in the morning and 1 hour in the afternoon but lately I am lucky to get her to sleep for 30 minutes at either time. Yesterday she had 10 minutes sleep in total :eek:

She isn't sick or hungry, and I have tried bonjela as she has had some teeth coming through but nothing works. Today I even tried cutting the morning sleep out but by the time she did go down she was exhausted and only slept for an hour anyway... which means she won't sleep this afternoon...

Can anyone shed some light on why her sleep patterns have changed so much.

Thanks
Paula

[Chickadee]

She might be getting ready to drop her morning sleep. When Chloe did this (around 13 months I think) it was a very grumpy couple of weeks while she was flipping back and forth from 1 to 2 naps on an almost daily basis and shifting times around. Rather than cutting the morning sleep out entirely I tried to move it back progressively & base it on entirely on her tired signs instead of the clock like I had been able to before. So instead of going down at 9:30 or 10 she might go anytime between 9:30 and 12. And then sometimes if her morning nap was "late" she'd want a top up nap late in the afternoon and maybe go to bed a bit late that night too. The one routine I kept whenever it was reasonable was that she had a bottle (and/or snack) before her nap - this has always been part of her bedtime routine, so keeping it for her nap has helped I think. Eventually we settled for a little while on an early lunch (11-11:30) and a nap straight after, and then I could coax her through the late afternoon to bedtime. Her nap has gradually shifted later so that it's now mid afternoon.

All I can really suggest, if she is doing this transition, is to try to be as flexible as you can about appointments, and scheduling of other activities.