Lately, my 9 month old (who will be 10 months Dec. 5) doesn't want to sleep that long. She fights her naps during the day. When it's bedtime, she'll wake up after a few hours and want to play, or want me to hold her. We are thinking that since she is being more active during the day, she doesn't want to go to sleep for fear that she'll "miss something". She is getting over a cold but hasn't had any problems sleeping until recently (the past few days). I was just wondering, how much sleep is normal for a 9 month old?

DD who is almost 9 months has been doing the night time thing as well. Sleeps for a few hours and then is UP. We've been trying to ignore her as much as possible (that sounds awful) I mean just letting her hang in her crib until she starts to cry. 2/3 of the time she'll go back to sleep on her own.

As far as sleep amounts. She sleeps about 12 hours at night, but wakes 2-3 times most nights. She normally takes 2 naps that last about 1 1/2 hours. She normally goes down pretty easy for the 1st nap. The 2nd one is a bit harder.

Do you think your little one might be teething?

Did she recently start crawling or walking along furniture? When DS started doing this he was waking too and Dr. said his muscles might be sore like if you or I were exercising.

My DD did this as well. She's 2 and a half now, and thankfully when she wakes up at night, she just lay's there and "thinks". At least that's what she says she does...lol. But she was always so afraid to nap because she thought we were doing something cool without her. Like you said, afraid they are going to miss something. She just finally got over it and stopped crying when she would wake up, because she realized we were just going to come in and tell her to go back to sleep (after making sure nothing was really wrong). And now that she is over that, my 5 month old DS is fighting sleep cause he is so fascinated with his sister, he want's to make sure he see's everything that goes on. So here we go all over again! LOL!

My DD is also 9 months old. sleeps from 9am to 11am, 2pm to 4pm, and 7:30pm to 7am. Her pediatrician said that I am very fortunate, that not many babies sleep as well as she does. He said that many people only dream of their babies sleeping that well. I try to alway put her in the bed at the same time every day. (for her naps and bedtime) Occasionaly she will not sleep, but I leave her there for about an hour or so. If she starts to get fussy I will get her up, but most of the tiem she is happy, usually she will plat a bit and then go to sleep. I find giving her something to drink bofore her naps helps. She is always more content when she has a little something to drink before hand. At one point she was doing what your child was doing. I just skipped the am nap and did the pm nap early. That worked good. After two weeks, she went back to her normal schedule though. Good luck with your little one!

I wish my child would sleep from 7:30 am to 7:30 pm! She goes down around 9 or 9:30, sometimes wakes up between 2:00 and 3:00, and we just put her in our bed, praying she'll fall back to sleep. I nurse her until she falls asleep and she stays in our bed until about 5:30... then she's up. I can't seem to get her to squeeze in a few more hours in the morning. I've tried keeping her up later, but nope: she's up in the morning when her dad goes to work. I have to stay up with her until her sister wakes up for school, then she'll fall back to sleep in the car during the drive to school.

I thought about the comment that was made about sore muscles... she has been more active lately, pulling up on furniture and trying to take steps. I never thought she could be over-exerting herself... she loves to do it and I don't force her to get up. She does it on her own. And she is teething, by the way. I had to give her a little tylenol the other night just to get her to go to sleep. Poor thing.

Hey,

My brother who is just recently 8months sleeps most of the night. He doesnt give in but he does in the end. Takes him ages to give in. He normally sleeps for about 10-12 hours. Sometimes he doesnt go to sleep till 11pm and sleeps till 8. Depends on his dad. His dad goes to work at 8 so he likes to see my brother before he goes so yeah wakes up about 7 to half past. He has a wierd sleep patten some days are better than the other but he sleeps mostly 10-12 hrs. He sleeps during the day for about hour or two.

Yeah, the teething can really effect thier sleeping patterns. I put a teething ring in dd's bed, I found that helps her. she also sleeps with her favourite pink blankie now that she is older. I have found that putting her to bed earlier has made her sleep later. You may want to try and see how it works. In one of my parenting magizines it says to try that. An overly tried baby will not sleep as well, so it says. I found that with my dd that it does help her. You can try it. Just move the bed time up by an hour or so. I have also found getting her to bed before she is overly tried makes the process a whole lot easier. Wish you luck.