It's not really an issue, except that he does get overtired later in the day with just one or two 40 min naps to last him from 10:30am til 7:30pm. And that I am missing my mums group cos he's sleeping through it!
DS always had one big sleep and two little sleeps at your DS' age. The time of the big sleep varied depending on the day, I just let him do his own thing. I think he mainly had his big sleep in the morning though.
That being said, if I needed to get somewhere I would wake him up. I'd do this by simply going into the room and just making a bit of noise, usually by opening drawers etc. He'd start stirring and kinda wake up on his own if that makes sense.
I try to never wake my sleeping kids or babies, unless I have no choice. If I do have to wake them for whatever reason (it's getting close to dinner time and thus bed time, or we need to go out somewhere, etc) then I try to do it gently by opening the door and increasing the light in the room.
Just do whatever suits your kids best, there is no point worrying about installing a sleep routine if your bub doesn't have any sleep problems.
CheezelMonster - Thanks. That's what I am doing atm, just waking him early if I need to be somewhere. I am happy for him to sleep whenever he wants to. I just thought it was strange for a sleep clinic of all places to be promoting waking a baby and just assuming they'd be savvy enough to go "ah well, I'll just have my big sleep later in the day", lol!
Anyway, it ain't an issue atm cos he won't go down at all right now....
I agree with the others, I'd be hesitant to wake him if he is sleeping, unless you have to go somewhere! I hate waking DD up, not that I ever really have to, but she wakes up cranky, and so would I if I was being woken from a good sleep! She was also a cat napper and never had a long sleep, so I doubt that method would have worked for us, just would have resulted in a cranky, overtired baby at the end of the day!
Up until this week she was having one sleep/day which lasted 1 1/2 - 2 hours, but now she is lucky to sleep for over an hour. I'm doing this a bit but I figure she sleeps as much as she needs to, so long as she isn't cranky..
They will eventually figure it all out. My aunty asked me the other day if I'd taken any tips from the 'Baby Whisperer', I googled it and to me it seems like one of those stickler for routines methods...so to answer her question, uh no..we'll do our own thing and I'm sure one day she will actually sleep!
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but I figure she sleeps as much as she needs to, so long as she isn't cranky..
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