1 Year Old Has Stopped Sleeping Through the Night

Updated on September 08, 2010
C.A. asks from Charlottesville, VA
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Ah yes, the age old question of how to get the baby to sleep through the night. I am not really looking for suggestions on how to achieve it but rather curious if others have had the same experience. My one year old started sleeping through the night around 12 months, but now, sadly, a month later has stopped. Yes, we are teething and seem to be transitioning to one nap, but the teething didn't seem to bother her before. Have others had the same experience and did the sleeping-through-the night come back? If so, what was your situation and how long did it take?

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L.M.

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Hi! Yes, everytime our 1 year old gets a new tooth sleep is disrupted for about a few days to a week- then sleeping through the night returns. We give him a little Tylenol on those rough nights, putting him to bed earlier also seems to help him sleep longer and later. I got that advice from Baby 411 and it really has worked for us! That is just in general for getting babies to sleep better, it wasn't particular to teething.
Good luck!
L.

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M.B.

answers from Sacramento on

My son was never a good night sleeper before the age of one year. He would have some good stretches of 11pm-5am or so but never throughtout the night then voila! At a year, things got better .
He wasn't getting sick so often from older silbling.
He was through the barrage of immunizations which through every thing off.
He was getting older and moving around more throughout the day first crawling then walking making him more tired.
He only has one 2 hr nap but sleep through the nap (knock on wood). He has been doing this from 1 yr til now: 20 mos old.
Things that seemed to help were: medicine for teething when he was teething, making sure he ate a lot during the day and had milk right before bedtime so he wasn't hungry, a clean diaper right before bed and I mean right before he fell asleep or went down, a fairly routine time, a night light in his room in the event he wakes up and is scared, I go in and re-cover him once in the night to make sure he's not hot/cold, I don't put him down before he's tired and I make sure he GETS TIRED (lot of activity) throughout the day so he is tired .
I was never a fan of CIO so I'd get up, change his diaper and feed him and things always got better!
Hang in there: this too shall pass .

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M.M.

answers from El Paso on

My 15 month old did the same thing around a year. I read that it is due to aquiring new physical skills, along with all the other things like teething and routines. I am still not guaranteed a full night sleep, but I just try to keep plugging along with a routine. Dinner, bath every other night, playtime, maybe a snack and then a book. We are also down to one nap durring the day, but he gets awful cranky around dinner and wants to sleep. If I let him, then he will stay up till 11. I think if you just keep up what you are doing, she will start sleeping through the night, maybe not every night, but then again I dont always sleep through the night either at my age :)

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M.J.

answers from Chicago on

My daughter did that several times in her early years. Sometimes it was due to being out of town, a recent illness, teething, or just nothing at all. She used all her persuasive powers to try to get me to pick her up. She'd cry and scream like a banshee! But all I'd do was re-train her to sleep thru the night and it resolved each time.

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C.C.

answers from Washington DC on

I was going to post something similar today-I have a 2 y/o who has NEVER slept through the night. The Dr's have always told me she is suppose to be getting more sleep-Duh? Now it is even worse then before because not only is she wide awake at 430 am we now start bedtime routine at 0730 (bath, story, bed by 0830) and hope she goes to sleep before 11pm. We have to lock our 9 month olds room because he is out like a light by 830 and sleeps until we wake him at 530. If we don't lock his room our 2 y/o will go in and WAKE HIM UP! I finally decided that I have to go to the pediatrician to see whats wrong because I am so tired. Hang in there it will get better

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