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Anyone's DC dropped the morning nap at 10 months?

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duende · 11/06/2010 11:39

Hi. I'm really hoping someone will be able to help. I posted on another thread about the problems I'm having at the moment with my DS (10 mo) and his sleep. He wakes zillion times at night and I don't know what's causing it. He started crawling 3 weeks ago and has been pulling himself and standing up for about 10 days. Since this started, he's become impossible to put down for naps and bedtime is a battle too. He used to fall asleep on his own in the cot, with the help of a dummy and his blanket. Now, as soon as I lie him down, he stands up. We repeat this a number of times until he gets annoyed and than hysterical. He also gets hysterical if I leave his room. Today and yesterday, I haven't been able to put him down for his morning nap. He has just fallen asleep now - at 11:30. So he probably won't have a nap in the afternoon but will wake up to early to cope easily till bedtime.
What do I do? Do I let him go down at this sort of time, or do I persevere trying to put him down earlier (used to be about 9:30), or do I try and keep him awake till about 12:30?

How do I know if he's ready to drop the morning nap?
And what makes him wake 10 times a night??
I haven't been this sleep deprived and fed up since he was 3 weeks old

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AllSheepareWhite · 11/06/2010 11:57

Feel for you Duende, am still going through this and my DD is nearly a year!

Check the room is not too light, I know since I got a black out curtain DD has slept better.

Could be teething so therefore feeding more for comfort (and to help grow teeth) as teeth seem to push through more at night.

Could just be he is so excited at his new skills that he just can't contain himself and wants to try them out. DD used to try and crawl in her sleep!

Have now switched DD to one longer nap in the afternoon after her lunch so that she is more tired at bedtime, sometimes works .

This is what I have been doing with DD:

At first with DD I put her in her cot and rubbed her back/ear/head whilst she listens to her glow seahorse until she went to sleep. If she tried to get up and play I would tell her to lie down and if she didn't I would quietly leave the room. She would get upset and cry, which I let her do for a few minutes before returning and telling her to lie down again. She soon got the message. After a few days I moved to rubbing her back for a few minutes then moving to sit next to the cot where she could see me (again if she didn't lie down I would leave the room as before). Then I moved to sitting away from the cot, then sitting on a bed in the room, now I am trying to move towards the door in an effort to just be able to put her down and she self settle to sleep. Who knows maybe I will be successful.

I am also trying pat and shhh if she starts to wake in the night, also winding and now send DH into her in the earlier evening until I feed her when I come to bed. I am going to start offering water if she wakes in the night to see if she will eventually just not bother waking. Last night she fed every two hours, you are not alone!

It is terrible being sleep deprived, if you can try and catnap when he naps in the day, I say leave the cleaning at what ever else needs doing your sanity is more important!

duende · 11/06/2010 13:56

allsheeparewhite, thanks for replying and sorry to hear things are not great for your either. My DS is not breastfed anymore and he hasn't fed in the night for the last 6 months. He eats well during the day so I don't think it's hunger either.
We have a black out blind in his room.
Last night I have him calprofen just before bed. He woke up 4 hours later and woke up crying 5 times during the next hour. At this point I gave him another dose of calpol and he slept till 4:30. Should I assume teeth are a culprit amongst other things?

unfortunately, I am now working from home part time and have to work when he naps, so no rest for me

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dycey · 11/06/2010 14:12

Yup - gave up and went to one sleep at 10 months - at 11am for 1.5 hrs. I found I was fighting to get him to nap .....

easier to get them to sleep if they are REALLY tired (but then you can get them overtired and I did that today with 16 month old and ended up using buggy again....)

Try letting him have one nap late morning - it might work?

dycey · 11/06/2010 14:14

And I find if he wakes from the nap late enough (after mid day) then he can cope til bedtime... maybe yours will?

They do these sudden leaps and suddely can stay awake for longer and longer.

ALso teething means they can't nap easily. Try the buggy?

Poor you with the sleep. BEEN THERE!

duende · 11/06/2010 14:24

dycey, he used to have a morning nap around 9:30, and then another in the afternoon between 1-2pm. today he didn't go down till 11:30 (but this time fell asleep within minutes instead of fighting me for an hour) and slept till 2pm!
maybe this is the way to go... or maybe he'll have a completely different plan tomorrow

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AllSheepareWhite · 11/06/2010 15:48

Duende, does sound like the night waking could be teeth related from what you have described and you are doing all the right things. Hopefully it is just a phase, my DD's teeth seem to push for several days then stop again. Must be a shock after six months of him sleeping nights.

willowstar · 11/06/2010 22:18

My little girl is just starting to do this some days and she is only 8 months. Just going with the flow.

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