Sleeping...too much?
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Topic: Sleeping...too much?
Posted By: peanut butter
Subject: Sleeping...too much?
Date Posted: 22 October 2008 at 9:19am
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This is cut and pasted from the Jul/Aug board as It hought I would draw upon the collective experience of all you wise women
What do you all think....I probably should be happy. Tom is sleeping a lot at the moment.
Heres an example: wakes at 7am, and is now back in bed asleep at 8.30! He rarely stays up past 1.5 to 2hours in the morning. He gets grizzly, starts rubbing his eyes and doesnt protest when I put him down. Great! I get to shower, email, hang out washing etc. He sleeps for 2 to 2.5hrs.
He wakes up happy and we have lunch, go out, play etc and he goes back down around 2pm....again for up to 2 2.5 hrs. I love this sleep as I sleep too.
So whats the problem? yesterday I had to wake him from both sleeps after 2.5 hrs. In the morning we had to go out and in the afternoon it was 4.30 and I thought he should be up for dinner at 5.30. As it was I gave him dinner later.
He then goes to bed at 7pm but we have been struggling to get him to sleep before 8.30 or 9pm!!! This is not like Tom. He is waking a few times in the night. Sometimes he resettles after a little whimper other times I need to get up and comfort him (usually only once a night).
I am wondering if he is so tired in the morning when he wakes that he spends the day catching up and I wish we could get him back to his 7pm bedtime. I am reluctant to give up his any of his day sleeps as I really need to time myself. Unless I wake him a little earlier...but it seems wrong to wake a sleeping bubba.
any suggestions, experience? Maybe its just a phase that will pass in a few days. |
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Posted By: 11111
Date Posted: 22 October 2008 at 9:42am
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my mikey was/ a big sleeper when he was Tom's gae he slept like a new a baby he would still ahve 2 sleep's aday and still go down and sleep all night I was worreid but relised when he was up he was totally active. So I guessed he needed the sleep. Even now he will sleep upto 3 hour's in a day. and still sleep at night. I would only worry if it was affecting his night sleeping.
ETA sorry just reread your post. What we did to get mikey down to one sleep was make him stay up till about 11.30am gave him lunch at 11am then woke him by 3pm so gave him a longer sleep earlier in the day that way I still get a break. I find if he goes down too late in the day ie after 1pm them he will sleep till 4 then we would have trouble getting him to bed daylight saving of course has stuffed thing's up a little in our house tho. ------------- Deborah Mum to:   
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Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 22 October 2008 at 10:16am
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Cooper is a fantastic sleeper during the day, he wakes at 7am and is back in bed by 9 - 9.30 he isn't negotiable on these times either. He usually gets up between 11.30-12 and then goes back to bed at 3.30 and sleeps till 5.30. Has a bath, then dinner and is back in bed by 7.30.
If I didn't have to pick Nyah up from school he'd probably go back to bed around 2.30, but he has no choice with the 3.30 sleep and he needs it otherwise he wakes during the night. It could be a phase, Cooper sometimes likes to change things up a bit. Normally he'll go back to his routine within a few days. Good luck  ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 22 October 2008 at 12:58pm
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Spencer took to refusing to go to bed at night just before he dropped down to one sleep so maybe he is kind of ready but not quite.
Spencer was quite strange, first he refused to have the morning sleep then he went back to having two sleeps then he started refusing the afternoon sleep but would sleep in the morning and then slowly that morning sleep has become an after lunch one. We had early lunches for a few weeks but now he goes to bed around 1.30pm, or sometimes like today a little earlier. (he's been swimming so is more tired). There is a baby in our antenatal group that still has 2 good sleeps a day though and he is a little older than Spencer so they are all different with how much they need. Some days Spencer doesn't have a nap at all but is still perfectly happy and not tired, same can't be said for me though 
I would just ride it out for a bit and see what he does and if it doesn't look like he is going to change anytime soon maybe start waking him from his afternoon nap so he is tired again by 7pm. Although I hate waking them too so that would be a last resort really. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: pomikiwi
Date Posted: 22 October 2008 at 2:04pm
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I'd try the 11am ish bedtime if you can hold him out that long, whats he like if you're out and about with him?
Otherwise could you wake him maybe after an hour in the morning and maybe no long than 1.5 or 2 hours for his avo sleep? ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
DD-Carys Amelia 17.03.06 |
Posted By: Mum2ET
Date Posted: 22 October 2008 at 3:46pm
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I would probably wake him early from his afternoon nap (even though I hate waking a sleeping baby/toddler).I read somewhere at this age they shouldn't be sleeping past 3.30 in the afternoon if you want them to go down at a decent time in the evening.
Has he gone through a major developmental change recently (i.e. walking)? I found that when Ella first started walking she was so,so tired and then eventually once she got used to it, she was fine. ------------- Mum to Ella (5) and Tom (2) |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 22 October 2008 at 7:45pm
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I think what you're doing is fine, I think he might be staying up later in the night because of the light? I would try extending both his sleeps out by 1/2 hour (ie first morning sleep at about 9am instead of 8.30am) and wake him after 1 or 1 1/2 hours in his afternoon sleep. -------------  |
Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 22 October 2008 at 8:53pm
| Well today he only slept for 1.5 hrs this morning so was up longer before his afternoon sleep. he then went down for 2.5 hrs and went to bed at 7.30......asleep by 8 so its an improvement. I think I will just run with it. He obviously needs the sleep as we dont have a battle with them. I think he might be growing heaps and he's teething again (or not feeling well as he had a mega runny poo this evening). |
Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 22 October 2008 at 9:06pm
Nice (about the poo ), Spencer always ups his sleeps when he's a bit off colour as well. I think riding it out is a good idea, we had a few weeks where Spencer would spend the odd evening sitting on the sofa with us till 8-8.30pm and then he dropped that extra nap and starting going to bed at 7pm again. Sometimes is just easier to go with the flow than try to force them.-------------
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Posted By: pomikiwi
Date Posted: 22 October 2008 at 9:47pm
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SOme babies/kids sleep more than others, you know him best. My little one always needed sleep until she turned 2 ish, then she would nap great some weeks and not others. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
DD-Carys Amelia 17.03.06 |
Posted By: mamanee
Date Posted: 24 October 2008 at 12:27am
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Sam dropped his second sleep at about 11 months old so we've only had one day time sleep here for AGES, he's 17 months now. He fights his sleep at night if he is asleep too late in the afternoon, but if he doesn't sleep long enough, he will wake during the night. At the moment he wakes at 5:30AM (Grrrrr) and hangs on till 11AM and will sleep for nearly four hours, which is awesome and he will still go down at 7:30PM. But if he wakes at 7AM he will go till about 1-2PM and sleep till 3:30PM and that is borderline too late I find, because he will muck around till about 8:30PM getting off to sleep.
I LOVE the four hour sleeps though. |
Posted By: MissCandice
Date Posted: 27 October 2008 at 9:26am
Yup this is what the sleep specialist told me, when we were having trouble with Kylahs sleep. She said not to let them sleep after 3pm, otherwise it will effect their bedtime. ------------- ~ Mummy to a beautiful girl ~ |
Mum2Ella wrote:Posted By: ~Princess*Gaby~
Date Posted: 28 October 2008 at 4:53pm
| Gaby's sleeping patterns go really crazy when she's teething.. maybe he's teething???? |