Ds (11 months) has decided that 4.30am is a good time to get up and greet the day. I can normally manage to persuade him to go back to sleep after about 45 minutes of stroking and patting, but then it?s only for half an hour or so?he goes to bed at 7pm and sleeps (usually) until 4.30, when he just doesn?t seem tired anymore.
What?s strange is that even when we put him to bed later (e.g. 7.45 last night) he still wakes between 4.30 and 4.45. It?s nothing environmental ? his room is very dark, and he wakes at the same time whether we are at home or somewhere else, so it?s not noise outside. Even the amount of daytime sleep doesn?t make any difference.
On the one hand, he?s only just stopped waking multiple times in the night, so I feel I should be pleased he?s got the hang of uninterrupted sleep, but at least he never used to wake at stupid o?clock in the morning full of beans.
I?d welcome any advice ? co-sleeping isn?t working, when I bring him into bed he just yells and tries to poke me in the eye. At the moment one of us has to get up and take him downstairs and play with him so everyone else in the family can get some sleep.
Why isn't there a tired emoticon on MN? Surely it would be much used and appreciated.