Sleepy only 1hour after waking up in AM???

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Does anyone else's baby ever seem totally knackered within 1 hour or 2 after getting up in the morning? My DS is 10 months old and many mornings he'll barely be able to hold it together for breakfast after a 10 and half hour night of sleep (with one bf at 4 or 5am). Today was another one of those days: he woke at 6:15am (in good spirits) and by 7:30 was a mess. I kept him up until 9am but instead of getting a good sleep, he cried and cried (for 30m) and only slept for 30min. I suspect he was overtired. I am truly baffled how he could be so tired after a good night's rest. Should I be putting him down for a very early nap?? The problem with this (when I have let him go right back to sleep) is that he'll sleep 1 hour or so and then he's tired again by 11am. Then he can't stay awake for lunch. He sleeps maybe another hour/hour half and up at 12:30. Then he cannot make it to 7pm bedtime. Basically, if I go with his natural sleep rhythms, it gets really messed up. If I force him to nap on a schedule, he has a really hard time settling himself (like today) and has poor sleeps and gets overtired. Even his afternoon nap today was bad. What in heaven's name would you do? Please --- all advice welcome.

i would let him sleep when he is tired.

if he needs to sleep let him.
My eldest was like this slept all the time!!
He is 15 now and does pretty much the same..think there were a few years in between when he was awake!!!

Oh, let him sleep.

DS1 used to go back to bed no more than two hours after getting up till he was at least one.

And he often slept for three hours then too, then was up till bedtime. Worked for us.

My DS did this (goes a bit longer now he is 16m) and so do/did many other babies I know of. I wouldn't worry as it is very normal. I vaguely remember reading about this being a normal pattern in some sleep book or another. Let him sleep when he shows his sleepy signals, look at him and not the clock. Take advantage of it being at that time of the day by having a lovely, long bath!

Let him sleep! So what if lunch is a little bit later?

I have 2 lo's. dd never slept. ds sleeps lots. I know which I prefer!!

DD is also 10mnths and she does the same most mornings. I just go with the flow. She has 1-2hrs first thing in the morning and will then go down at lunchtime. Some days she might have an afternoon nap and when she doesn't she goes to bed at 6pm instead of 7pm. Works for us.

BTW With ds I use to force set naps times and it was always a mess. He would cry and take forever to settle. With dd I follow her lead and we never and the crying thing.

I have always thought DD was strange as she was exactly like your DS! She is now 22month old, sleeps till 7:30 and goes back to bed at 9.15 for 2 hours, and then no more naps! I've tried (as she's older than your DS) to move her one nap to the afternoon, but she wasn't settling, she too was overtired.

Like everyone else has said, i think its best to let them sleep when they're tired. Just wanted to say your DS is not the only one!

My ds2 is currently fast asleep having been up for a stunning 55 minutes! Don't worry, let them sleep! Then you can come on here with no worries!

My dd is almost a year old, she tends to be tired almost as soon as she is up. I tend to think it's because she wakes at 6:30 being hungry / thirsty, but is still tired so still wants sleep. On a weekend I try to let her go back to sleep, so very quiet feeding, quiet in our room. She'll go back to sleep sometimes just for an hour, sometimes two, so I'll leave her in our bed with us. She'll then have another sleep around 11:00 for about an hour, and then again around 4:00 for another hour and then sleep from 7:00 til 6:30 again.
On a weekday, as I have to go to work, we'll get her up and ready at 6:30 and then off to the CM's for 7:30 where she'll have brekkie and then a sleep. She gets less sleep in the week because she's so nosey and doesn't like to sleep with the other kids around, so I dont mind the additional sleep on the weekends, she obviously needs it.
DH sleeps a lot, I think she gets it from him!

Well, that settles it then! I'm relieved to get a unanimous response because it helps me be more confident in what to do. It makes alot of sense to go with the child's natural sleep needs -- I guess my worry is that when I go back to work, he'll have to stay up and go to the CM, and likely won't get put back in his cot until 9am these mornings. I suppose those days he'll just be more tired (and the CM can deal with him!).

Aha, this sounds like my ds. He is knackered almost exactly one hour after waking in the morning. I count it as part of his night's sleep and I go back to bed for an hour too!! So he wakes after 11 hours, feeds, plays for 30 mins and goes back to bed for an hour. He then has a sleep from 10ish til 11ish and another one in the afternoon. I think let him have his extra lay-in

My lo's like this too, I let him sleep gives me time to pamper myself

DS is 4 months, wakes at 6.30am after 11 hours kip and is usually asleep in his cot again by 8.30am!!!