11 month sleep regression?

[stouffer]

So is this a thing for 11 month olds or is it just my LO?

We did sleep training a couple of months ago. It took a few weeks but she was going down awake and self settling and now suddenly she's forgotten all the training and won't go to sleep alone.

Tell me I'm not the only one! The thought of going through sleep training again is not appealing!

 

[patch2006uk]

The big sleep regressions for most are 4 months, 8 months and 18 months. There are growth spurts, teething and general developmental leaps thrown in at different points too (just to keep us on our toes!)

One reason I didn't want to do sleep training is because there are many stories of it working for a few weeks and then it needing either repeating or just no longer working. It's a pain, but I don't think you can 'train' a baby to sleep before they're actually ready to. It took my LO until 15 months to sleep through, and he still doesn't really self settle. You just need to be patient.

 

[ChristinaG]

I think you can absolutely "train" a baby to sleep, but I think a better word is "teaching"...
Its not going to work every time, but they understand that they CAN do it. Other factors are at play at night too sometimes: overtiredness, aches and pains (teeth and growing), bad dreams, etc.
Hang in there, and treat it like any other sleep regression...will probably end in a few weeks - or it might come and go for awhile.

 

[patch2006uk]

I meant more teach them to stay asleep if they still need milk. If they need the nutrition, they'll wake. You probably can't teach them not to, because they're waking up hungry.

 

[stouffer]

She's not needed a night feed since she was about 5 months so that isn't an issue for us.

It hasn't been so much that I have been teaching her to sleep, just to drift off without my help. She's old enough to do this independently and has proven she can.

I'm just trying to figure out why she's stopped being able to do this so I want to see if it's just one of those things that will pass or if there is another cause.

 

[patch2006uk]

In that case, sounds like its probably teething, illness or growth spurt. Whatever it is, it won't last forever

 

[seoj]

Could be a "regression" due to well, just about anything really. Seperation anxiety? Teething? you name it... my LO is hard to put down any time she is anything other than 100% feeling good. LOL. But, once she's better, she goes right back to her easy peasy self to put down- sleepy, but awake and will happily play in her crib and zonk out on her own. But if she is NOT happy, for whatever reason, then we have to rock or hold her till she falls asleep- otherwise, it's just not happening for her (or us!). Whatever though- once she is out she is out... so we stopped trying to re-train her once we discovered she'd be just fine once she was past whatever it was. Not sure if the training just sticks, and they know HOW to do it, just whether they WANT to... but whatever is going on, it will pass. Our LO usually get's through these stages from 1-2 dys to 1-2 wks max. But your Mommy and know best- so just do what makes sense for you all

I'm no expert though- so maybe others will have better insight as to why it's happening? We usually know why with our LO- as she is either sick etc at the time... but when she was smaller, we didn't always know- and just had to go with it till it got better. Sorry I'm not better help!

Best of luck!

 

[kizzyt]

Might be teething, my lo is defo more clingy when she's teething x