My DS is 10 months old. He has not been, so far, a particularly good sleeper. He has always been quite an early riser. However, as he is nearly a year, I was hoping this might have changed as he got older.
We have another older child, and both work so are finding the early starts difficult.
He usually wakes any time betwern 4.30am and 5am. He can stay in his room, chatting and grumbling for about twenty mins/half an hour from when he wakes up.
Our routine is roughly this:
Get up 5-5.30am
9 oz milk
Breakfast (cereal or toast or banana)
Nap ( about 9.30/10am) we are trying to phase this out.
Lunch between 11.30-12.00
Nap 12.30 (usually between 45mins to an hour)
3pm 9oz bottle
Dinner between 5-5.30
Bed between 6.30 pm and 7pm
He has small snacks throughout the day. We have tried black out blinds, earlier and later bed times. He usually wakes up through the night at about midnight but goes back to sleep with a quick shush/ pat.
How does this look? Any obvious mistakes? We are open to any suggestions as to how to get him to sleep a bit longer.
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Advice on our routine to see if we are causing early wake ups
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mermaid101 · 02/06/2015 09:29
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