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14mo waking exactly 1.5 hrs after going to bed then up till 12-2am

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MrsKoala · 22/11/2013 20:02

I have had problems with DS sleeping since birth, but, he has always been hard to get to sleep but once down, down for the night. However, we have struggled for 2 months to get him into a good routine of proper bedtimes. It worked for a few weeks but we had 2 weekends visiting family and ever since he has been waking at exactly 1.5hrs after going down. He wakes full of beans and happy, not grizzly or still tired at all. Then runs about laughing and climbing till we can take no more and take him back to bed at midnight. He then wriggles round the bed (we co sleep) poking us in the eyes and ears and playing with my hair till he eventually drops off again at about 2am. I then force him awake at 7.30am hoping to keep the routine going. He grizzles about and clings to me all morning till i put him in the buggy and walk for an hour 10-11am - he fights sleep till about 10.45am. I let him sleep for an hour and a half and then keep him awake playing in the garden, walking to the swings, playing with shapes etc. At 4pm he starts to yawn and i bath him, have dinner, do stories and he falls asleep between 6-6.45pm. Then he wakes again exactly an hour and a half later and it all starts again. I am in tears tonight as i just can't go on like this. I am exhausted. There now isn't a moment of the day he isn't 'on me', all day and all night limpeting on. I just need a couple of hours to myself.

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teacher123 · 22/11/2013 23:02

Am absolutely no expert but it Looks to me like he sees bedtime as just another nap if he's waking an hour and a half later full of beans! Maybe try moving everything gradually? He's obviously still exhausted at 7.30am if he's not dropped off till midnight, so maybe wake him at 10, let him nap at 2pm then bed at 9 or something, wait till that sticks for a few days and then keep moving things every couple of days?

Monty27 · 22/11/2013 23:03

Put him to bed a bit earlier, an hour and a half later feed him, then go to bed. See what happens.

INeedThatForkOff · 23/11/2013 00:41

Are you me? DS is doing this - I'm up now while fucking DH stays in bed. I'm also working (13hr day yesterday) and about to move house. Absolutely raging.

MrsKoala · 23/11/2013 08:54

Thank you all. I was so tired and frustrated last night. I feel terrible but when DS woke i was so furious with him i could barely look at him and just burst into tears. I couldn't bring myself to cuddle him. I'm such a shit mum :(

teacher - we used to try later beds and wakings but he would kind of go past it and get a second wind. Especially because we are staying with Mum and Dad and DH and they get in about 7-8ish and the excitement then of daddy home and nana getting dinner etc would send him into an over excited spin. The chance of bed before midnight then is nil.

Monty - i'm sorry, i don't understand your post Blush Do you mean put him to bed for a nap about 4pm then get him up an hour and a half later and feed him? If so that's kind of the routine we had before and he wouldn't sleep till 1am most nights, then wanted to sleep till 10am and then nap again at noon. It meant we couldn't do anything.

INeedThat - i know exactly how you feel. DH had work to do so i was left with DS. I was raging too.

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