too much day sleep?
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Topic: too much day sleep?
Posted By: Bexee
Subject: too much day sleep?
Date Posted: 24 May 2010 at 10:25am
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9.5 month old DS has just started waking at 6am ish. For the while before that he's been sleeping through until 7/7.30am.
It's coincided with the start of crawling and increased day sleeps. Yesterday he had 5 hours of day sleeps (3 in the morning/2 in the arvo). Prior to the early waking he was having about 3 hours. Should I bite the bullet, keep him up longer/wake him after 1.5 hours and really limit the day sleeps in the hope it will extend the night one? Or do I just go with it? To complicate matters, we start daycare 3 days a week from tomorrow. |
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Posted By: first
Date Posted: 24 May 2010 at 11:03am
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If I were you I would wait and just let him adjust. I found that every big milestone my son hit he would go out of routine a little for a while then he'd be sort himself out within a few months.
Could you just leave him in his cot till seven so he gets the idea its not time to wake. I know that he'll probably be noisey but hopefully he'd get the idea pretty quick. I have always let my son sleep as much as he likes in the day and then kept to a strict bedtime and wake up time for the day. He learns to adjust his sleep around that. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Mum2ET
Date Posted: 24 May 2010 at 2:48pm
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I would also just wait. With every new developmental milestone Ella went through she woke early as well (they just want to practice their new skill). After a while (maybe a couple of weeks????) she went back to normal. She was also a big day sleeper (i.e. now at nearly 3 she sleeps for 3 hrs during the day) and I have always let her sleep as long as she wants during the day (and she still sleeps well at night and was always in bed by 7). ------------- Mum to Ella (5) and Tom (2) |
Posted By: mummymonster
Date Posted: 24 May 2010 at 7:57pm
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Contrary to everything I'd heard. DS's sleeps improved once he started daycare (baring the first week) - go figure.
Otherwise I agree with the above. I try and stick to bed/awake times, and he can sleep as much (or as little) as he wants during the day. DS is not a model sleeper and we do have 'issues' some days. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Helen1
Date Posted: 25 May 2010 at 8:49pm
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I am going to be a bit different here. At that age I was told by Plunket that the 2 sleeps she was having in the day should be no more than 2 hours in the morning (that being her naturally longer sleep) and no more than 1 hour in the afternoon.
I agree that it could be the developmental milestone but after a week or 2 - if he hasn't settled back into a good sleeping pattern then I would wake him after these times for the day sleeps. Might be worth talking it over with your plunket or karitane nurse. Good luck and all the best ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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