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Ds will sleep in our bed from 5 but not in his own!

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mrsflux · 29/04/2010 08:14

Ds has started waking at 5ish. Not good! He will go back to sleep till 6.30 or 7 in our bed but I don't sleep.
He will not go to sleep again in his own room! He just screams.
Do we persevere and get him out of the habit by refusing to let him in our bed?
Or let him in our bed and I resign myself to my day starting at 5!
or can we persuade him to sleep longer? Maybe cut out a nap. He is 1 and can just manage a day at nursery where he's only napping once.

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Guadalupe · 29/04/2010 08:17

Does your day have to start at 5am because he gets in with you? Will you not go back to sleep?

Ds2 gets in our bed sometime in the early hours, always has done and he is 3 now. I quite like waking up with him there.

My older two also did this, and I think they stopped about 3 or 4. They certainly don't do it now at 12 and 8 anyway!

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Guadalupe · 29/04/2010 08:19

oh sorry, just noticed you said you don't sleep. That is a bit harder then.

Have you tried blackout curtains and all that? I wake up around then sometimes atm because of the birds singing or its getting lighter.

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tortoiseonthehalfshell · 29/04/2010 08:21

Mine does this, and it was fine till a couple of months ago when she kicked and squirmed so much that I'd end up on the edge of the bed all cross. When I'm not there, for some reason she settles down and sleeps near her Dad no problem.

So I'd bring her into bed for an early morning breastfeed, wait till she dozed off, then go and sleep on the sofabed in the study instead and leave her and her Dad to it.

Worked great till last week when she started treating Daddy as an early morning trampoline. Now we're persevering with Operation Cot.

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mrsflux · 29/04/2010 08:29

Should have added he usually naps for 40mins to 1h 15 at 10 and 2 ish. We wake him after about 1h15 as if he has too much day sleep he doesn't go down at bed time.

Is dropping a nap the answer? Or us he still too little?

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mrsflux · 29/04/2010 08:31

We have a make shift blackout blind. Our room is lighter than his tho by quite a lot!

I've never managed to sleep well with him in our bed. Think I worry too much or feel too squashed or get kicked in the guts.

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mrsflux · 30/04/2010 08:19

It was 4.20 today!!!

Took an hour and a half but he did go back to sleep in his bed till 6.45.

I feel like a zombie- ESP as I was out last night!

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Guadalupe · 30/04/2010 16:47

Oh poor you. It is really hard isn't it.

I took ds for a wee around 5am and then I couldn't get back to sleep. Hopefully it will be a phase as he adjusts to the new light. If you really can't sleep with him in your bed then you will have to persevere. Good luck!

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mrsflux · 01/05/2010 16:41

Hooray! 5.57!!!
He woke at 3 and dh for once got up and put him back to sleep. Then nothing till nearly 6!
We were so chuffed we watched incredibles in bed with him!
fingers crossed it wasn't a fluck!

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Guadalupe · 01/05/2010 18:53

Oh good!

Hope it carries on, and maybe send your dh in every night and you can sleep through.

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mrsflux · 02/05/2010 10:20

oh poo! it was 5.20 today. dh couldn't get him off to sleep so he was up and about downstairs at about 6.

do you think he's ready for 1 nap instead of 2???
he can manage 1 nap during a day at nursery but has 2 when at home.

we had to help him switch from 3-2 naps a while back as he just kept waking earlier and earlier, so not sure he'll make the transition on his own.