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HELP! When good sleepers turn bad.........

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pipkin35 · 14/03/2011 14:51

Posted this in sleep but got no response so am trying here...

DS is 3.3 months. He's in a cotbed, took the sides off just before he turned 3. Never had a problem with his sleep...(woken twice in 2 yrs when we moved house) until the last week. He sleeps in one of those sleeping bags and has finally worked out how to get them off - saying that, he can walk in them.
So, he goes to bed 7-7.30pm and used to do a solid 12 or more hours - he dropped his day nap at around 2.5.
Thing is, now the little bugger just comes into our room on his own anytime from 6am onwards. He looks knackered and is yawning and getting a bit bad tempered but doesn't go back to sleep....! It's not that light in his room, but am aware clocks go forward soon, so potentially he could be rising even earlier?!

Just wondered if anyone else has had this?

Is he now needing less sleep? He must only be getting 10.5 hours, if that.

We also have a 2 year old DD who is a TERRIBLE sleeper, up at 5.30am, never does more than 10 hours etc...and I just don't want a situation where one of us has to be up with both of them before 6am!

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isthismadness · 14/03/2011 15:03

Good blackouts (groanywhere plus blackout material over top of curtains!) and the gro clock with rewards for staying in bed until morning worked for us. Back to 12 hour nights now!

morethanyoubargainfor · 14/03/2011 15:08

our ds did this and we did the whole blackout blinds for him adn it did work, until he hit 7 then it all went pear shape adn we still haven't managed to resolve this and he is 8.5 Blush.

with him thoough it is the other way around, we can't get him to go to sleep, but when he does he doesn't want to get up in the morning! he could quite happily sleep until 10am.

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