Horrible night sleep

My LO is 10.5 months old and in the last 2 weeks her sleeping routines completely gone out the window. She doesn’t sleep at night until earliest 11pm sometimes we’re awake until 2am trying to get her to sleep. She’s BF and we co sleep, she wants to be BF all through the night and wakes up if I take her off, which keeps me up all night. She then wakes up at 9:30/10am regardless of what time she slept, and takes 2 naps during the day, but will still go to bed extremely late full of energy in the evenings. It’s exhausting and I don’t know if this is some sleep regression or how to even fix this because waking up with no energy each day is getting too much for me.

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Teething or sickness usually are the disruptors in my house. It will pass. I always fall asleep if my LO is wanting fed from me in the middle of the night. They sleep in their cot but get moved into my bed if they wake as there’s no way it would be safe for me to sit and feed them.

If she wakes up at 9:30/10am, would it be worth maybe trying to do 1 nap that day and see if she'll go to bed earlier? I'm not sure what her wake windows or nap schedule is usually like, so just a thought! 😊 Fighting her sleep and lots of waking could also be to do with a 10-month sleep regression.

@Yasmin yes I was going to say that too, and then see if you can get back to a normal wake up time like even 8.30am and start trying to make it earlier!

@CeeCee it's so trial and error when the normal routine and things all go out the window! 😅

Hey thanks for the suggestions, I tried 3 days ago to give her only one nap 1-3pm in hopes I could have her in bed at 8pm, she stayed up till 12:30am🫠 and still wakes up at 9:30 after tossing and turning all night. At the beginning of November she was sleeping at 9:30pm ish then out of nowhere she just doesn’t sleep

I would not let her sleep until 9.30, you need to wake her up around 6.30-7am. Sounds like she is overtired

Oh, bless you! Sounds a lot like it could be the sleep regression - I wonder if there will be a new skill she'll surprise you with 😂 have you maybe tried waking her up a little earlier in the morning to see if that helps? I know if she's going to bed that late, it's often easier to let them have the sleep as it's obviously needed, so totally get why you might not be keen to!

You need to start waking her early, like I said the first day or two will be awful as she will be so so tired but use naps to slowly get her out of a sleep deficit. If you dont change the wake up time nothing will change unfortunately, I have been there

Have you had her iron levels checked?

Thank you all for the suggestions, I will try and wake her up early tomorrow and see how it goes during the day, hopefully it’ll fix her sleeping routine!

Agree with the other posters. I would wake her up by 7am at the latest. Get her out in the fresh air and natural light in the morning wake window to help reset her circadian rhythm too

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