https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 17 May 2026 00:18:25 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sudden-changes-in-13-month-olds-sleep-please-help-me-understand#post-1069228 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 22:52:33 +0000 skibobrown 1069228@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, molars are generally worse than the front teeth. My daughter is also generally pretty good with teething, but the molars definitely gave us more trouble, and the teething for the molars lasted forever! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sudden-changes-in-13-month-olds-sleep-please-help-me-understand#post-1069183 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 22:29:22 +0000 Giraffe 1069183@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Penny Lane: he's supposedly between leaps 8 and 9, but the other two reasons are very likely! He's been working really hard on his talking, and I can't feel any new teeth yet but he's drooling like crazy. Hope your LO's sleep gets better soon! </p> <p>@skibobrown: the dentist did say that she thought his molars would be coming in soon, and that was almost a month ago. Did you find that your daughter had a harder time with her molars than with earlier teeth? C has eight teeth and none of them have seemed to bother him much at all.</p> <p>@BabyBoecksMom: he's the oldest in his room by about six weeks, and no one else seems at all ready yet, so it's tricky - today he napped with the bigger kids who are all down to one nap, but only slept about 50 minutes.</p> <p>He's doing much better at night, so even if naps are all over the place he's basically getting enough sleep. It was really those few nights when he seemed distraught that had me worried - such a throwback to his first few months. It's amazing how the sound of that particular cry still stirs up such strong emotions. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sudden-changes-in-13-month-olds-sleep-please-help-me-understand#post-1066461 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 05:49:38 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 1066461@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Giraffe: it's possible he could be ready to drop a nap. DD was later than most kids when it came to dropping a nap, but the other kids in her class had dropped around 13 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sudden-changes-in-13-month-olds-sleep-please-help-me-understand#post-1066319 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 22:46:31 +0000 skibobrown 1066319@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Growth spurt? Teething? Getting ready to drop a nap?<br /> This is around the age that my daughter dropped down to one nap... but it's also around the age of getting molars too, so it could be either one of those (or something entirely different). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sudden-changes-in-13-month-olds-sleep-please-help-me-understand#post-1066312 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 22:40:32 +0000 Penny Lane 1066312@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Giraffe: could he be wonder weeking, teething, or working on a milestone? </p> <p>My LO is almost 13 months old, and his sleep has been off the last few days too. I can see teeth trying to cut through in his upper jaw, so I'm blaming that for now :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sudden-changes-in-13-month-olds-sleep-please-help-me-understand#post-1066273 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 21:54:22 +0000 Giraffe 1066273@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BabyBoecksMom: that is good to hear, thank you! He still seems a bit unsettled, but the hard crying has stopped. If his new pattern includes more STTN (which he did again last night, woohoo!) I won't complain. Did your daughter shift to one nap around this time, by any chance? His daycare teacher thinks he might be ready, but it seems way too early to me!</p> <p>@edelweiss: exactly! I had no idea that sleep would be, by far, the thing we'd struggle with the most and understand the least. He's been better the last few nights, and actually went down this evening without so much as a peep. How is your LO's sleep these days? 7 months is such a fun time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sudden-changes-in-13-month-olds-sleep-please-help-me-understand#post-1065157 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:03:47 +0000 edelweiss 1065157@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i haven't experienced that (yet--LO is 7 months old) but just generally wanted to empathize with the confusion/fatigue caused by the mysteries of baby sleep. how did things go the past couple of nights? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sudden-changes-in-13-month-olds-sleep-please-help-me-understand#post-1065131 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:55:04 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 1065131@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Giraffe: I remember DD doing something similar around that time. Her sleep was all off, but I think I chalked it up to a growth spurt and so it settled into a new pattern after a few days. I did hold her more before putting her down for a nap, and talked to her before the nap so she knew it was coming. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sudden-changes-in-13-month-olds-sleep-please-help-me-understand#post-1060191 Mon, 02 Sep 2013 13:31:34 +0000 Giraffe 1060191@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son is 13 months old and has never been a great sleeper, but for the last few months he's slept well at night (usually with one wake-up/nursing session) and taken at least one decent nap per day, with minimal fussing. Even if we put him down and he doesn't go to sleep right away, he seems content to talk to himself for a bit and then drift off.</p> <p>This all changed a few days ago. He slept through the night, which is very unusual for him, on Thursday night, and then took a two-hour morning nap on Friday. He didn't nap on Friday afternoon, but we chalked it up to the long morning nap and great night of sleep. He also slept through the night on Friday night. </p> <p>On Saturday, he took a decent but shortish morning nap. We tried to put him down for his afternoon nap, and as soon as I left the room he started crying hard, which he almost never does at all anymore. It was heartbreaking! He calmed down after 15-20 minutes (just at the point I was going to go in and rescue him) but never actually went to sleep. Bedtime was similar - inconsolable-sounding crying for about 15 minutes, but then, fortunately, he fell asleep. He woke up around 5 to nurse and wanted to nurse for a looooong time. I put him back in the crib and he went back to sleep until 8:15, which is about two hours later than his usual preferred wake-up time.</p> <p>Since he woke up so late, I decided to try skipping the morning nap on Sunday and putting him down early for his afternoon nap. More hard crying and another failed nap. I then took him to the grocery store, followed by an hour-long walk in the stroller. Still awake. He was actually in a great mood all afternoon - I don't know how he did it. At bedtime, he started in with the loud crying, but only for a couple of minutes, and then slept until about 5 again. Just like the previous day, he nursed for a long time and then went back to sleep until after 8 this morning.</p> <p>Sorry for the novel - I'm hoping the details will make it more likely for someone to recognize a pattern and tell me what the heck is going on! If you have experienced anything like this, I would love to hear about it. </p>