Help! Six months pregnant with a two year old son

[trixiebell]

I am six months pregnant with a two year old son. My son doesnt sleep during the day, and then falls asleep between six and half six in the evening. Because of this, he wakes up in the morning between half four and six.

Any suggestions?

Just sympathy hope others can offer something more constructive x

Can you say more about what you do to try to get him to have a daytime nap?

Sorry to say, it might just be his sleep cycle. Mine has always been like that. And people have always told me to try going to bed later (I still wake at 6, 4 or 5 if I'm pg, I just wake grumpy because I haven't had enough sleep), and I am useless at late nights. I do love an afternoon sleep, though. Does he just refuse to go down during the afternoon?

hi trixiebell

My 2 year old son is going through what seems to be dropping his nap. He would usually sleep for a couple of hours after lunch, but now he only sleeps on alternate days depending what we've done in the morning. I still put him in bed with the lights out (although during the day it's not exactly dark) and he knows to stay in bed until I come back for him. He'll then chatter and sing quietly and play with his toys for at least an hour, before calling for me.

If he's tired he'll drop off after a few minutes, if he's not he's happy to have a "quiet time" in his room which give me a chance for a cuppa!

No matter how daunting I would be very tempted to do everything you can to keep your son up til 7pm at least - maybe by doing it gradually.

Does he have a bedtime routine of any kind? Like bath, story, bed etc? If he's just dropping off when he feels like it, he maybe thinks he can just get up when he feels like it too?

I hope you find a solution to this, because pregnant or not, 4:30am is waking up in the middle of the night - not the morning - and that's not doing either of you any good

He managed to have a sleep this afternoon for an hour, and is still awake now. Lets hope that this is the start of something good