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I would push bedtime back a little if wake-time is the biggest issue for you. Approx. 13 hours is good. My LO sleeps 11-12 overnight typically with a 2 hour nap, but bedtime is between 8 and 8:30 and wake time is between 7 and 8.

@abbydabbydoodlebug: Good luck...our very worst sleep time was around 18-20 months. Hopefully you'll avoid it! : )

LO just went through this (she's 17 months so she went through it at your LO's age). I think part of it was that it is getting light earlier (we made it as dark as a dungeon in her room, and that helped), part of it was developmental (she went through the language explosion) and part of it was timing, as you suggested. I think she was in the process of moving bedtime later but wasn't quite ready to do so - i've read that around this age they start to move bedtime, sometimes as far back as an hour later! i will say that we shifted bedtime later first to see if it would help and it didnt, it just resulted in less sleep, so clearly she needed to get there on her own.

I've never gone by awake time, because LO doesn't seem to have an issue with too much awake time, but hopefully it's a short phase for you like it was for us! also, LO gets 10-11 hours a night and 11 is pretty much her max. she does ok on 10 too as long as it's good solid sleep. whatever seems to work best for your LO!