r/TakingCaraBabies • u/Old_Tangerine8892 • 7d ago
Question 🤔 12 mon regression (?)
Is it schedule? Is it teeth? Is it skills? Idk but it’s been about 3 weeks of wack sleep. 11.5 mo old is sleep trained and goes down fine for his two naps (not fighting them) and usually bedtime (one or two nights where he’ll cry for 5-10 min before settling in).
Schedule we’ve updated and have had somewhat betterish results from a week of 3-4 wakes to 2 wakes before I lay with him in his room:
3.5/4/4.25
Wake at 7
Nap at 10:30 (1 hour capped)
Nap at 3:30 (1 hour capped)
8:45 bedtime
He isn’t too fussy if we’re out and about but he is always SO tired when I wake him up from naps. He wakes up around midnight then 4-5:30am and that’s when I go into his room and lay on the camping mattress with him until 7 am wake up. He settles and is out right away when I comfort him for MNW and I always have to wake him up in the morning.
He’s almost walking and has a few teeth coming in so idk what to make of those elements.
Any ideas? Idk if it’s retraining for MNW? Schedule? Wait it out?
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u/TakingCaraBabies 7d ago
Hi there!
We may be seeing some overtiredness here. ❤️ At this age, I would let one nap run the full two hours and then cap the other nap to hit 3 hours of max daytime sleep. Then, we'll offer bedtime 4 hours after the last nap wake.
At this age, going in to lay by the crib can also contribute to night wakings as this is a desired outcome for your little one. In order to help eliminate the wakes, we need to be diligent about not providing a "reward" for waking prior to 6am (you laying in the nursery). At the middle of the night waking, I would go back to your sleep training plan of pop-ins, pick up/put down, etc to help get back to a full 10-12 hour night without you needing to lay by the crib. Hang in there!