How does your 10 month old sleep?

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Just that really. Looking for some perspective. DS nearly 11m sleeps through but wakes every day between 5.5.30am and it’s killing me. I had PPD and PPA in the early months caused largely by his sleep (up every 1-2 hours for months and no napping in day).

Things have obviously improved but I still feel so down and tired starting my day this early. I have tried so many different things to try and get him to sleep until 6am. My friends’ babies around me all seem to sleep until 7am or they wake once in the night but sleep in later in the morning, which tbh, I think I’d prefer right now.

I know I’m lucky he sleeps a solid 10 hour stretch most of the time, but I don’t feel lucky. And DS seems tired and unhappy.

Usual things.
Is lo hungry? Add a supper?
Cold?
Dark?
Naps? What are they like?

For us. If we put our lo to bed at 7pm their be up at 530am. She goes bed about 8pm depends on the day and naps and nursery etc. Sleeps till 630am and 7am unless it's sweating out of control hot 😆 🤣

When we changed bedtime it was initially worse and then lo started sleeping in later.

@ChittyBang1987 not hungry as have tried resettling with a bottle. Blacked out as much as possible - we’re in an old Victorian and the doors are wonky so some light does creep in but barely and this morning at 5am when LO woke it was still dark near enough. Possibly hot atm but we have fan on him and this has been going on months now.

Two naps on a set schedule at 9am and 1.30pm. Obviously hard to get to 9am with a 5am wake but I try, sometimes will go down 8.30-8.45am. Naps total 2.5 hours.

Have tried later bedtime but to no avail, although I have heard you have to change things for a few weeks? He often falls asleep within minutes at bedtime. Could over-tiredness be causing it?

Our 10 month twins are usually up around 5:30, especially thanks to DS (who usually then kindly wakes his sister). He’s become like our little screamy alarm clock. I think later bedtime may help, as on the occasion he manages to stay up past 7pm he doesn’t wake quite so early.

@TheBatwoman bed time seems to make no difference here. Went to bed at 10pm the other night due to travelling and still up at 5.30am 😴😴

The thing is when you change a routine, it can take up to 3 weeks to see a change. It takes about a week with my lo. But everyone is different. One late night won't make a difference.

Do you wake lo from naps? I think my lo was doing about 3 hours. If you are waking them. I would suggest letting them sleep as long as possible for morning then push afternoon later getting ur later bedtime.

Then as time progresses cut the morning nap down. If that makes sense

@ChittyBang1987 no not waking him. He does about 1hr 15 for each nap. Occasionally will do a 2 hour lunch nap. I would never wake unless it was excessive, which I don’t think it is. He seems overtired to me all the time. If I let him I recon he’d sleep again 2 hours after his morning nap.

When lo wakes at 530am. I would do anything to get them back to sleep. No talking usual bits.

Failing that. Maybe a way that may work. Do 3 naps as a temp basis. Add a cat nap to get later bedtime. To help the wake windows and being overtired. Maybe do an earlier first nap. Say 8am? Then when lo sleeps in after later bedtime then can make that first nap much later.

The other theory, but it could cause extreme overtiredness. Move first nap to 9am regardless how tired and wake after 30 minutes. The theory is they are catching up their remaining sleep in this first nap.

Yes lo is overtired from what your saying

Mine is 15 months now but her sleep has been the same since she was around 4 months.

When she was 10 months she’d sleep from 8/9 - 8/9. Her routine went a bit like this.

• 8/9 bottle
• porridge for breakfast around 10
• 2 hr nap at 11
• bottle when she woke up
• lunch around 3 and go down for another two hours
• 5 another bottle
• dinner at 6
• bottle just before bed
• sleep for the night at 8/9

Does he eat much food during the day? I’d say try your best to keep him up until 8pm and see what happens and see when he wakes up? I’d try to do that everyday and hopefully he’ll fall into a routine where he sleeps later and wakes up later

if it makes you feel any better my 10 month old has never slept through the night and also wakes up between 5-5:30. He also is frequently up at night 😅, a good night (very rare) we have around 3 wake ups before getting up for the day, on a bad night it can be close to 50! We’ve tried everything but just can’t seem to get out of this cycle, obviously doesn’t help now with teething and all the milestones! You can get through it hun trust me , I know it’s hard but you just have to think it’s not for ever! 🙏 xx