Tired and moany in the morning

[DesperateHousewife20]

About 45ish mins after waking/getting up ds is moaning, rubbing his eyes and generally showing signs of tiredness.

I carry on with the morning though, I give him breakfast, have a shower and get us both dressed then Ill either go out so he sleeps in the car/pram or he'll go to sleep in his bouncy chair or bed if I stay in (which is rare)

He's 8 months and we co-sleep and I bf him to sleep, he wakes about 3 times on avg during the night. Nothing has changed recently but its only started in the last few days.

Any advice?

If those are his sleep signals, I'd go with them, obviously allowing for you getting out, so stick him in the car seat or pram for the sleep if you're heading out shortly. At that age mine were both still having two morning sleeps, one about an hour after they woke up, 45mins to an hour long, and similar later in the morning, then longer sleep after lunch. I should caveat that they both slept a lot compared to what I seem to see for others, but much as I couldn't fathom how they could be tired again so quickly having just slept all night (they weren't waking at that age in the night either) apparently they did. Dropped to 1 morning sleep between 12 and 15 mths and then just to afternoon sleep between 18 and 21 mths. Good luck. One of my HVs did quote at me 'sleep breeds sleep' and said getting their daytime sleeps when they needed them sometimes helped their night sleeps to be smoother and deeper, so here's hoping you get a virtuous cycle!

Thank you for the reply. Im fine with him having a sleep in the morning so soon after waking, it just seems odd its just started happening.

Hopefully it'll help his night time sleep!