Hi all, my 8 month old boy has never slept through the night. He’s well established on 3 meals / snacks and 3 bottles a day. He wakes every single morning at 4:30 or 5:15. Today it was 5:15 and we get up every morning into day light at 7:00. Usually morning nap 9:30-10:30 (have tried 30 min and 45 min also but this didn’t help). Lunch nap 1:30–3:30 and bed at 6:45, has been 6:30 sometimes. This morning, like many mornings he didn’t go back to sleep from 5:15-7:00. The odd time I can get him back to sleep around 6:30 and he has to be woken then at 7:00, he is clearly still tired.
Today I decided to try new approach of a 10-15 min power nap at 8:00 to 8:15 to get him to last til morning nap. He then rejected the morning nap as I guess the wake window wasn’t long enough. But I only did this because 5:15-9:30 wake window is the problem I think.
any suggestions to help fix this? He is sleeping in his own room, in total darkness, white noise on, heating controlled he’s not cold and he’s never overly into his morning bottle so I am confident it is not hunger. I’m reluctant to do morning nap say 2 hours after waking, so say 8:30-9:30 as he is awake then for too long til 1:30 lunch nap. We previously did 1-3 lunch nap but wake window between that and bed was too much for him.