A question about getting DS4 back to sleep. Its not so much a problem, just a bit annoying. The title will be too long if I try and explain it here....although this is quite long now so maybe I should have just told you here...never mind, click it i...

[LadyTophamHatt]

Blame the constant late nights/early mornings for that title

Anyway....

Ds4 wakes for a bottle between 5-6am, he'll generally drink it all but then will not under any circumstances go back to sleep.
Youall know the story, climbing all over me, walloping me, pulling my hair, flinging himslef around all fo rfun, he's giggling and laughing the whole time even though the room is dark and I (we) try not to laugh with him.

I don't really mind the time he gets up, I average about 6-7 hours which I can survive on BUT I gaurantee, without a doubt he always goes back to sleep as soon as we're downstairs. He's alseep right now, snoring and has been for about 30 minutes.

We could both be asleep in bed if beating me up wasn't so much fun for him

So, dear Mners please tell me how I can get him to stay upstairs to sleep. I can't carry him up again because he'll wake up, and I can't leave him down here because the big Dsses get up soon after him and they'll wake him up. Is there anything I can do??

I remember the days of getting up at 5.30, and thinking when will this ever end. It has ended, but i remember it well. Mine used to do the same wake early and then be ready for another nap, but they did time it well, like when im trying to get the older one ready and off to school, so actually worked out well for me.
I think you just have to grin and bare it! He will grow out of it, this you must know having already had 3 other dc. It is hard and tiring, but at least your up and have done a few jobs by 7am-ish, that i miss these days - i am far less organised now that i dont even get out of bed until 7.

I would give up trying tbh. Get up with him, give him his bottle downstairs and try to make the most of his nap time. I think you will get more and more stressed trying to make him sleep and him poking you and climbing all over you.

Dont the clocks change soon? That will make a difference wont it?

this mornig it was 5.20 and she went back to bed at 7.30 and is still fast asleep

but dont the clocks go back and thats my worry it'll be 4-5 am starts

Yes, i think they do go back. So will only be 7.30 now. If lo wakes now at 5.30 it will be 4.30 (ugh)! Thats just nasty! But of course they will be going to bed later by that hour too.

Maybe try stretching out the bedtime by not only that hour, but an hour and a half?

Hyooooge sympathies LTH. No sage words of advice though, I am far too knackered to think.

(goes off to start own thread)

haychee...are you mad????

there no-way I'm doing house work at that time of the morning, Good lord woman the mere thought makes me feel faint!

Mad I tell you, MAD!

lol at concept of housework before th sun is up!

endh - wierd - my littlest, also an offender in this manner (ive served him asbos but he just ignores them, sigh) is a january baby too... maybe there is something to your theory... (makes mental note never to get pg in april again)

He's asleep again now. early morning really aren't his thing....he needs to realise this

What time does he have his last feed of the evening LTH? Also bed time. Perhaps he needs to have both later

Try and delay the time he goes back to sleep by a little each day, so that instead of having 2 morning naps (i.e. at 7 ish and 10ish) eventually he is just having one morning nap (at 9/10ish). He should then "tack on" the early morning nap back to his night's sleep, and wake at a more appropriate 6/7am. Does that make any sense? probably not. Hard keeping them awake when they've been up since 5am I know, but it did work for me when DD1 was doing exactly that!

Expect I'll be going through all this again soon when DD2 gets to 9months [sigh]

he doesn't rea;ly have aroutine to sleep bodkin. Being No4 he grabs a bit a sleep whenever he can so I genuinely have no idea if there any pattern to his sleep beyond the fact that he normally goes to sleep when we go to playgroup on awednesday morning!

But besides all that since I started this thread he's been staying awake when I bring him down stairs in the morning.....