We have the same problem and DD is 10.5 months!! She doesn't always do it though but it does happen quite a bit. I personally think it's just one of those things and we choose to just go with the flow.
We do the same routine every night (and have done since she was only a couple of weeks old) but I think she's just a little unsettled some nights and therefore her sleep is disturbed. I know it's frustrating but I feel better thinking about how we go to bed - some nights it's early, some nights late. Sometimes I'm really tired, sometimes I'm not. Sometimes I need to read before I go to sleep, sometimes I just nod straight off. Why can't our babies be the same, IYKWIM?
Usually when DD does this, she just needs a cuddle to relax her or sometimes extra milk. We just try all of our tricks and eventually something works! We did have one night recently though when she was super tired so she was in bed at 6.15pm (bedtime is usually 7-7.30). She played up until 8.30 when I gave up and just let her out to play in the lounge while we watched TV. She was so hypo, crawling around like a mad child and laughing all the time. DH and I ended up seeing the funny side in it all but we did wonder how on earth we would get her to sleep. Anyway, we tried again at 9.30pm and she went straight down and didn't wake until 9.30 the next morning Sometimes I think they just need to really find their sleepy feeling
Continue with your routine and hopefully it'll just be a random occurrence.
Last edited by Taurean; July 21st, 2010 at 11:47 AM.
What I'll try tonight is go into the room 5 minutes before i expect her to wake up and be ready for her stirring. Then I'll feed her again till she goes back over. We do the bedtime routine in our room, the lights are dim, she gets a massage, story, cuddle and then boobie. I put the dim light out for the feed so it's all done in the dark with just a little night light.
Will let you all know how that goes tonight!!
Sue xxxx
Well, she seems to have slept through her sleep cycle so far. She went down to bed at 6.45pm, fed for half an hour, and is still asleep at 8.20pm. I'm hanging around the bedroom so that I can deal with any potential wakenings quickly!!
Don't stress if it happens again, babies just sometimes do that. It can be annoying (especially when you are really looking forward to that time out!) but they do alter their 'routine' sometimes just to keep their mummys on their toes!
At her age I wouldn't be to concerned with a bed 'time' as such, just more interested in a bed time routine, they don't start working more towards a clock time until about 6 months. Next week it will probably be different again, its just to keep us mummies on our toes. If they don't want to sleep then you probably wont get them to.
DD2 is still changing her bed times, sometimes she goes down and stays down, other times wakes up and plays happily in her cot until she goes back to sleep and other times screams blue murder until someone gets her and she plays again till 10.30. Try to remember how much sleep she has gotten in the 24 hours, they tend to average out the same each day, so if they have longer day time naps they have less sleep during the night etc.
Yeah, the "time" can vary each night, depending on when she had her last nap of the day - so it's any time between 6.15pm-7.30pm but the routine stays the same. We seem to be getting there though and last night she stayed asleep till 12.35am!!!!! SUPERSTAR!
Sometimes I think they just need to really find their sleepy feeling
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