Night Wakings/very Early Morning Wakings and Walking

I've heard that this can be true with developmental milestones such as walking. You can certainly re-introduce sleep training. We did Ferber months ago.

We had a few early wake ups this month (DS started walking on the 2nd). If he was up early, I waited 5 minutes (most of the time he settled himself) at the 5 minute mark, if he wasn't asleep, I walked in stroked his back, and laid him down again, he was back to sleep b/f I made it back to bed. It's happened once or twice, but because we didn't make a production of it, it's been nipped in the bud.

My daughter is 13 months and started fighting sleep a lot lately too--She has to stay in her bed from 7-7 though and I go in and check on her when she wakes up to make sure she doesn't have a dirty diaper, it's too cold, etc. I nurse her once during the night and then put her back down. She carries on a huge ruckus but we've all learned to kind of tune her out until this phase passes. My 3 year old sleeps through it, and our room is on the other side of the house so I just turn the monitor down and turn it back up every 15 minutes or so to see if she conked back out yet. I want her to get the message that nighttime is sleep time and it's not time to play or get out of our beds. So I guess it is re-introducing sleep training but I refuse to let her get into the habit of waking the whole house up at the crack of dawn (like I did with my son 2 years ago...ugggghh I regretted that for a long time! hah). Both of my kids stay in their beds until at least 7.

our daughter did exactly the same thing, when she first started walking, and my coffee got stronger and stronger, i think its because walking is so new to them that they just have to practice as much as possible, but eventually, after a few tumbles, walking isnt quite as exciting to them as it was at first. and their sleeping pattern returns to normal, thankfully.
K. h.

I don't remember my daughter waking up more after she started walking. But when she would learn new things her first year she seemed to sleep a lot less. She is still that way. Now there are times when she doesn't want to go to sleep. She is learning to read and wants to read every book at bedtime.
Do your best to stay on schedule. If he wakes up at night and is not crying let him go back to sleep on his own. Well the crying thing is up to you, I would give my daughter a few minutes to cry when she was young and then go in. I don’t believe in the cry it out for children that young.