A little advice on bedtime?

[Taurean]

We have the same problem and DD is 10.5 months!! She doesn't always do it though but it does happen quite a bit. I personally think it's just one of those things and we choose to just go with the flow.

We do the same routine every night (and have done since she was only a couple of weeks old) but I think she's just a little unsettled some nights and therefore her sleep is disturbed. I know it's frustrating but I feel better thinking about how we go to bed - some nights it's early, some nights late. Sometimes I'm really tired, sometimes I'm not. Sometimes I need to read before I go to sleep, sometimes I just nod straight off. Why can't our babies be the same, IYKWIM?

Usually when DD does this, she just needs a cuddle to relax her or sometimes extra milk. We just try all of our tricks and eventually something works! We did have one night recently though when she was super tired so she was in bed at 6.15pm (bedtime is usually 7-7.30). She played up until 8.30 when I gave up and just let her out to play in the lounge while we watched TV. She was so hypo, crawling around like a mad child and laughing all the time. DH and I ended up seeing the funny side in it all but we did wonder how on earth we would get her to sleep. Anyway, we tried again at 9.30pm and she went straight down and didn't wake until 9.30 the next morning Sometimes I think they just need to really find their sleepy feeling

Continue with your routine and hopefully it'll just be a random occurrence.