He wont sleep in day helpppppppppppppppp!!!!!

[purplehaze]

I don't know what is going on!!!!! My 10 month little boy just wont settle for his morning nap anymore he has just screamed the place down for an hour and I feel so stressed out. I'm meant to be going to meet some friends for lunch, but I feel like I just want to run!!!!!

He's only just become a good sleeper at night and has now been sleeping from 7.30pm to 6.30am (bottle) then back to sleep to 8am. He used to go down at 9.30am quite happy for about 45mins and then for about an hour in the afternoon. Now he screams the place down so I have tried to put him to sleep later in the morning. He also has only been having about 30mins in the afternoon which is ok as it's made him sleep better at night.

I just feel I'm doing everything wrong as soon as I get one thing sorted something else goes wrong. I just want to hide away and cry!!!!!!!

Please any advice would be great.

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sounds like he's ready for just one daytime sleep. my dd2 sleeps straight after her lunch for anything from 1 to 2 hrs, and mostly sleeps through at night.

was his screaming over tired or 'crossness' at being put down for a nap? if the latter then i agree that he probably doesn't need it anymore, especially as he has a sort of lie-in until 8am. If my DS sleeps til 8am then he doesn't have a nap but if he gets up at 7am then he does. Also he might sleep for longer after lunch without the morning nap which will help him get through the long afternoon.

I agree that it may be one-nap-a-day time. My DD (now 12 mos) did the same thing around 10 months and I thought, great, now even less time off bc her naps were always 30-45 min and then she'd be up and wide awake.

Now, she goes for nap around 10:30 or 11 and sleeps for 2+ hrs most days! It took some time to transition. I gradually moved the am nap later and let her take a short snooze in the afernoon if she really needed to. HTH.

Good luck. And it's ok to feel insane every now and then. I've been told by many a mother, it's part of it all. Hang in.

purplehaze, btw i found the transition was made easier if my dds were full of lunch just before nappy change/nap, so i pretty much stay at home over lunchtime so she can get a good sleep and don't really plan to meet people over lunch any more, except for odd one-offs.

ph, he's sleeping a brilliant night 12.5 hours and he probably only needs one other sleep in the day at his age. My dd continued having 2 naps a day until about 15 months but she only ever slept 10-11 hours at night so needed to make a bit of time up. You might try giving him an early lunch and putting him down for a nap straight after, I'm sure you'd find he sleeps more than 30 mins that way.

could be right on the 1 sleep a day front. At 10 months though they do also suddenly seem to become more aware of their surroundings, being left, being scared of things - just a thought.

Our DS nearly 11 mths sleeps 7pm - 4am (10 min for a bottle) then back til 8am. Has 30 min morning and afternoon. If we are out in car or pushchair then fine but he fights it at home but needs it as rubs eyes, looses cordination and chews his comforter muslim. Creates in cot for 5 min then is zonked. He has never slept much in day but if he doesn't sleep he is too tired to eat lunch/tea. The instruction manual that came with him is crap

DD went to just one nap/day (usually early afternoon) at 8 months.

Your baby has a comfort Muslim? Does that work as well as a comfort Christian or Buddhist?

Sorry, I imagine that was as typo, but just cracked me up. (esp as my father is Muslim, and well, not that comforting)

But seriously, our DD has a comfort lamb doll and thank God, Allah, Yahweh, Buddha, you-name-it, for that. Very good to have.

Oh I give up!!!! Last night he went back to his old sleeping habits and waking every hour until 5am!!!! then he screamed the place down until I fed him his milk. I don't understand that sometimes he will go from 7pm to 8am with no milk and still is'nt that bothered with it then and then like last night screamed until he was fed. He did wake up at 7am this morning and went down for a sleep at 9am no problem at all.

Thnaks for all your advice everyone I guess I have one of those babies that has a bout 5 different routines!!!! How comes all my friends seem to have these perfect sleeping babies!!!!!

Yes in the early days everyone I mets baby slept through the night and instead of just saying how lucky they were they all sort of implied it was that they were very good mothers. I evily hoped that their second children would be of the non-sleeping variety

purplehaze - he isnt teething is he? Ds good slepper but when he is teething it is a nightmare.