#asktheexpert my 1 year 1 month old daughter has sleep regression- she gets up 2-3 times in the night. She sleeps by 8:30 in the night and gets up by 7 morning. But never at a stretch she slept for more than 4 hours. She wakes up cries n search for milk.. mornings she never feels hungry with 4-5 hours gap also. But in the night , she cries.. please suggest. She doesn’t sleep on her own, or by tapping on the back.

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Sleep Cycle in smaller babies is very different and they have a certain pattern initially  which becomes regularize at around 6 to 8 months of age and if the baby is comfortable with no irritability because of infantile colic nasal blockage any regurgitation etc  you should not worry just give a comfortable position to the baby and no medicine is required.
In children above one year of age you have to just make a proper discipline for the child so that gradually the child will develop a proper schedule and avoid too much of screen time and other activities at least one hour before sleep also make the room environment and temperature favourable for the cgghild to sleep.
toddlers may have night terrors and nightmares which needs to be managed accordingly.