12 month sleep regression?

[crumpet]

hi everyone....

so DD is 11 days short of being 12 months and has been a rediculously easy baby when it comes to sleep....
we put her down she went to sleep, she has had the odd rough patch where she fought going to bed but nothing major...

and i guess the issue we are having now is probably the same, nothing major im just curious as to why it might be happening...

she goes to bed at 7pm after her bottle, we follow the exact same routine every night.... bath/shower, bottle, cuddle with dad, me putting her in her sleeping bag, tucking her in, givng her her comforter and putting her sleep sheep on, say good night, lights off, door closed... DONE

but the last week she has started to fight it....
now im happy to let her cry and carry on becasue i know there is nothing wrong so i wait and see what sort of cry happens, occasionally she throws in a "hurry quick things are desperate" and i go straigh in, usually to find her standing up, but that isnt happening very often, once every couple of days...

its taking her a hour or so of carrying on to go to sleep, and then some nights she will wake after a hour, start the carry on again and go back to sleep within 15 minutes.... the other night it was every 2 hours from bed time all through the night, during the night i got up re-tucked her in and she would go straight to sleep....

so im really wondering if its normal for her to start creating a fuss at bed times?

[starangelk]

My dd started this at around the same time and eventually we figured out it was because she was ready to drop back to one sleep during the day. Might be the same for your bubba as she's happy enough with the routine but then can't actually go off to sleep?

[crumpet]

thanks strangelk....

she has actually been having one sleep on and off through the days...
some days she will still have 2, others just one...

i can tell 2hrs after she wakes up, the mornings she is crabby she has 2 sleeps but if she is still going strong she will just have the one...

so should i try to make her just have one from now on or do i follow her lead like im doing?

[starangelk]

DD was still having 2 daysleeps at kindy and 1 daysleep at home for ages and I noticed it when we'd put her down at night. In the end we just tried to stretch her out and only have 1 sleep because 2 was just too much. We also made sure we just chilled with her a bit and didn't really wear her out during this transition phase. On the days she really really needed 2 sleeps, we'd give her one big one and then one in the pram or the car - so more like a bit of a rest rather than a sleep sleep.

[CeCe]

DS did this at 12months of age. I can reassure you he has settled back down, but it was a few weeks of difficulty getting him to settle. Our MCHN said it's common around 12months because they're starting to take so much more in, therefore their mind may be ticking over and making it hard for them to settle.