Moving Sons sleep an hour later?

[mrsnlw]

DS now 7m has gotten into a habit of waking at 5ish evey morning. He's not upet or crying - some mornings he takes muilk and goes back to sleep others he just babbles away to himself and is full of beans. We have now moved him into his own room and he babbles away merrily to himself. Which I feel mean about because I'm just leaving him to get on with it. Is there any way I can get him to do 8-6 again? He's currently doing 8-5.

Wait 2 more weeks and the clocks go forward!

Sorry, not very helpful

Don't feel mean - he sounds happy! Better that you can rest whilst he entertains himself.

LET! I was just wondering about the clocks changing actually. Would this mean we can put him to bed at say 9 and he'll sleep til 6?!

I would have thought so. Assuming of course your DS has read the Big Book of Rules.

I'm afraid I'm probably not the best to give advice. Mine is 2 and was up at 3.30am yesterday. Didn't sleep through the night until he was 14 months. Hopefully somebody more helpful will be along soon.

Id say it's worth a try, but doesn't always work like that unfortunately. Mine tend to wake up around 7 no matter how late their bedtime was. I am certainly no expert though.
still waiting for 4 yo to sleep through

I just feel cream crackered today ARGH! Every other aspect of parenting I can deal with - even the pooplosions - but the tiredness - OMG!

What time is he fed previous to 5am?

I would treat the 5am wake as a night feed and do whatever it is you do when your DS wakes up in the night (ie feed and settle)

8-5 is not enough sleep at night so definitely don't move bedtime later. If anything make it earlier. Over-tiredness can result in early wakings.

FATE He has a feed usually 5ish, 10, maybe 2 and then 6. He's on 3 meals a day now. Prior to mid Jan he slept through for approx 2 months.

What time would you suggest bedtime? I dont get in til 545 and by the time we've all had tea and got him changed its 7pm. He settles immediately at 8 and goes to sleep.

If yo shift bed time and wake time, you also need to shift brakfast / supper time etc. Thats the only way we made the clock changes stick.

Assuming you don't have other children that need to get up for school, then I'm not advocating an earlier bedtime just yet. But I would be advocating a nights sleep of 8pm-8am, or 8pm-7am at least. You should be looking for 11 or 12 hours a night. What time does he have to be up by for you to go to work?

Is he in childcare in the daytime? He may well not be getting enough daytime sleep.

Because he was sleeping through before does not mean he will continue to do so. Not in the first year anyway, this constantly change.

FATE nope just DS.

We get up at 645 and are out of the house for 8. He is at nursery 2 days a week and with my parents 3 days a week. He has breakfast at 830 in those places. He's been getting hefty naps - anywhere between 2-3 hours a day on average (sometimes less).

His routine is:

(5ish bottle if he wakes for it)
645 get up, get washed, dressed, (perhaps have a bottle)
830 breakfast
first nap approx 10-11
12 lunch
another bottle around lunch
second nap approx 1-2
(when at nursery early tea at 330)
another bottle approx 4
tea with us approx 6
get ready for bed 7ish
bed at 8.
(I was offering a bottle at 10 but he never takes it now so I dont offer)

I don't think that's enough daytime sleep, so do think the problem here is over tired.

My 5 1/2 month old sleeps 2 to 3 hours in the morning (from about 9am) and then 2 hours from 1pm. Plus sometimes a 40 minute powernap afterschool (if only 2 hours in morning).

My older children have managed on 2-3 hours a day from about 18 months old once one single lunchtime nap is established. Before then I would be expecting 3 to 5 hours of daytime sleep.

Really?! sometimes he does have an hour at 5ish too.

Yes, really. I am the other side of the 6 month barrier when sleep changes, but I would not have expected less than two 2 hour naps from my four children until they were 12 months ish and ready to change to a single lunchtime nap.

But I am not the expert on your child. You are the expert on your child.

Well, we got in, I gave C his tea, got him in his pjs, we had ours, had some cuddles and by 715 he was rubbing his eyes. Fast asleep by 720. He woke at 130 as he'd got stuck on his belly and decided I'll have some milk for the inconvenience and then didnt wake til 610 (and I suspect that was because we were up). Lets see if it works again tonight!

Wow if my 8 month old naps for more than 45mins at a time I'm lucky - sometimes I can resettle him so he gets nearer 90mins but never 2h, he only naps 2 times a day. He wakes early but tried pushing him for a third nap (hard work ) and it's never made any difference. He is worst when unwell or teething but normally sleeps 6-5