I have a DS who is nearly 5 months old.
He sleeps quite well at night I think - normally 7pm to 8am with a quick feed about 5ish.
But I really struggle to get him to sleep during the day. I have been working on his morning sleep and now most days I can get him to go down in his cot in the morning but he rarely sleeps longer than 30-40 mins. Sometimes, like today, he wont go down at all in his cot - I ended up feeding him to sleep on my bed where he slept for about 30 mins.
Other than that I am lucky if he has another 30 mins in the afternoon, and then only if he is out in the car/pushchair or if he falls to sleep while I feed him.
Understandbly he is pretty tired and grouchy from about 5pm onwards because of this and cannot really stay awake past 7pm but other than that, he doesn't seem to be suffering any other ill effects from his lack of sleep during the day, however everything I read says he should be having about 3 hours of naps a day which at the moment seems like a pipe dream.
In total he has about 14 hours sleep in 24 -13 at night and then an hour a day. I suppose what I'm asking is if is this sufficient or whether there is likely to be any long term effects of his lack of sleep during the day?
Many thanks in advance
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babyboysmum · 11/07/2009 21:26
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