How I can 5 month old to sleep later than 5am?

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Having all sorts of sleep issues with 2 year old and 5 month old.

5 month old won't sleep later than 5am, goes to bed at 6pm. What can I do? Put him down to bed later?

The problem is he's usually up from his naps by 2pm and won't go back down, so by 6pm he's shattered.

Do I need to keep preserving with a longer or later nap and put him down later or deal with this?

DS is nearly 2 and wakes at 530am every.single.day. Has done since he was tiny. 5 months is still very young and if your little one is sleeping through from 6-5 that is pretty good! Mine woke every 2 hours until he was 11 months. I'm surprised though that at 5 months baby is not needing a later nap and I would try and persevere (take him out in buggy?) so that he has a little nap a bit later.

He's not sleeping at all, far from it. He's up every 1-2 hours throughout the night. But refuses to go back down at 5am. Then by 7am is hysterical with overtiredness.

Toddler has recently started waking throughout the night as well. I'm recovering from a virus abd have conjunctivitis. I don't sleep more yhan 40 mins in one go.

How can I change this sleep issue?

Hi is he waking for a feed during all those wakings or just to be settled? Odd question but does he usually do a poop not long after 5 a.m.

This is advice if your ff. I would start off the night time routine at 6 o clock. Yes he's shattered then but I've found a bath wakes mine up. If he is waking for hunger during the night why not make his last feed of the night with hungry baby milk ( this is what I did). If your baby is waking at 5 for a bottle you could always disrupt his sleep pattern and wake him at, say 4.30 and give him a quick feed. This way he will still be in his deep sleep and most likely sleep for longer due to his pattern being disrupted.

Hope this helps

Oh and re the poop question. If he does poop not long after 5 then if I was you I would change his feeding pattern slightly, this IME will help to alter his night time pooping.

He does feed in the time she wakes up - he's breastfed though so not sure how I could change his pooing times? And tes a lot of the times he's pooed in the night / early hours of the morning and I think that wakes him up.

Today was:

5am woke up and cried for 2 hours (obviously still tired)
7.30 - 10.30 - nap
1.30-4pm - nap
6.30pm - bedtime

Is that too much daytime sleep?

I would try and split those hours of day sleep to get three naps instead of two, the last being a shorter one. At 5 months they are tired, in my experience, after about 1.5hrs of being awake. Closer to 2hrs when they get closer to 6 months.

Agree with biscuits. At that age DS was having 3 naps a day. 730-9 then 11-1 then a later nap 330 or so. He never pood during night.