12-month-old sleeping time

My daughter is turning 1 in a few days time! Yay!


Her sleeping time is at 10pm and wakes up at 7 in the morning, i think it's rather late and a bit short.. I'd like to push it forward to 8.30...


here's her daily routine, wakes up at 7, milk time at 8, congee at 11.30, milk time at 14.30, fruit at 17.00, congee at 19.00, and last bottle of milk at 21.45, sometimes she would just fall asleep while drinking the bottle....


should I cut out her last bottle of milk? or cut down the portion of her dinner at 19.00 if I wanna move her bed time early to 8.30? Any recommendations on the meal time?


Any advice on making her sleep through the night? She still wakes up once or twice in the middle of the night...


Many thanks!

I agree that 10p is too late. Somewhere between 8 and 9 is fine.


Instead of skipping the bottle, I think you should consolidate the 1700 fruit and 1900 congee into one meal of some sort, taken at 1730. Then do the last bottle around 1930. You could move thew 1430 milk to 1400.


It's going to require some adjustment and it will take a few days to figure out what works.


Sleeping through the night. It took our #1 until past her 4th birthday to sleep through the night more often than not. Waking up is normal and will pass with time. Nothing one can do! :) Just don't coddle her with food or drink at night. Calmly help her fall back asleep.

Thanks axptguy38! That's really helpful!! Will try to combine the fruit and congee into one!! Hopefully we can move the bed time forward!! *finger crossed*!

BTW I wouldn't do the whole change at once. Spread it over 6-7 days, with a small change each day.

Agreed about the food. At one year of age transition to adult foods.


The place for porridge is breakfast. ;)

Totally, totally agree with Cara. I am surprised (shocked!) to hear a child of one year old is not offered cereals, veggies or meat etc. You can puree the adult's meals or like Cara said, cut into small pieces so you don't have to cook different. You will probably find that the child does not need so many bottles of milk as it has solids instead and it will sleep through the night with a full belly.


Personally i believe all children at this age need 12 -14 hours sleep. With a full tummy, a bottle of milk and a nice warm bath at 7.30, you'll find it will sleep a full 12 hours. At this stage it may take 1-2 weeks to adjust, some crying i'm sure but persist and you won't look back!

You didn't mention how much she naps during the day time?


By the time my daughter was a year old, she had already dropped her morning nap and was just sleeping a two-hour nap at lunch time (although other babies may still be having two naps a day - short morning nap and bigger lunch time nap. No late afternoon nap, otherwise they won't go to bed early).


My daughter falls asleep between 8-9pm at night and wakes at 7ish... she's about 20 months now.

i was wondering about the nap too. she doesn't nap during the day. it's quite a long day for her.


i agree with everyone else. move her dinner time to around 5:30 - 6:00. then she can have her milk at 7:00. the fruit you can fit together with any other meal during the day.


and yes.....give her rice or at least food that resembles 'adult' food.

Thanks for all your great inputs!


She naps twice during the day, one at around 10am, and one at around 3pm, both for 1 - 1.5hrs.


With her congee, it's not just plain congee, it's actually quite thick in texture (close to rice), and I also add in meat & vegie in it.


I'll try to close up the gap between the fruit and her dinner time slowly.. hopefully I can push her bed time forward!

you can also try giving her one longer nap instead two short ones. a nap around 12:30- 1:00 after her lunch.


you can combine the fruit with the milk time. it's not too much for one sitting. or give her milk before her nap and the fruit as a snack when she wakes up from her nap. fruit is light enough that it shouldn't interfere with her dinner.


i also noticed that she only has milk for breakfast. she should be getting food for breakfast along with her milk.


i don't think you need to cut down her dinner or her milk. my daughter has dinner at 7 and she can still finish all her milk at 8. give it a try, maybe she can finish it.

My daughter turns 10 months in two days. Her routine is this:


6:30am wakes up and has 7oz milk

7:30am - breakfast, consisting of a small finger of toast, half a banana and some yoghurt. She feeds herself the toast and banana and reaches for her water herself.

8:30-9am - nap. Usually around 1 hour

11:30am - lunch. Some pasta/fish/shepherds pie/calves liver and a baby bel cheese or apple, pear, raisin and cinammon puree for pudding

12:00 - lunchtime nap of around 1.5hrs

2:30pm - 6oz of milk

5:30/6pm - supper. Usually a meal similar to lunch (but we give her a good balance of veg, carbs and protein throughout the day). I always try to give her some finger food so she can start to feed herself. I also try as much as possible to offer her the spoon, even though it's quite messy ;)

6:30pm - bath (usually about 20 minutes)

7pm - 7oz of milk and then 12 hours of uninterrupted sleep (unless she's teething then she sometimes wakes up).


when we go to restaurants, she sits happily in a high chair and I feed her bits from our plates, as long as I'm certain there is no added salt or sugar and it's not too oily.


I would also strongly recommend you move your baby onto a more 'adult' diet but take it slowly. You need to introduce a lot more food as it sounds like you're still weaning. Over time make the food more lumpy until she's happy with really solid food. I give my baby whole pieces of chicken, for instance, and she munches away quite happily (she does tent to bite of huge chunks that she then chokes on but I just gently pull it out of her mouth, so make sure you always supervise when your baby eats). She actually gets a bit annoyed if I try to feed it to her. But she's certainly not a fussy eater so hopefully it'll be smooth sailing for us. You really need to add more variety to your baby's diet or you really will have trouble feeding her when she becomes more objectionable in, oh, 8 months time!!


Good luck!