not much advice and im assuming you have tried it, but when he wakes at 7pm, do you go in and feed him in the dark and resettle as if it was 11pm, 1 am etc? I would be trying to treat it like during the night so he learnt that he needed to sleep at that time (I feel your pain tho, I would hate my kids to be night owls! im in bed by 830 myself!)
at that age I had DS's only a very relaxed schedule that they wouldn't sleep any later than 2 hours before I wanted them to go down for the night. So DS1 was 4pm he was up and being put into bedtime routine at 6pm (which was a BF/cuddles till 7pm when he want to bed), DS2 was 5pm cuz he was doing the bed routine at 7pm.
with regards to the longer sleep earlier NO IDEA. lol I can never get my kids to sleep longer/ shorter when I want! usually if I don't mind a short one, the sleep forever! and vice versa!
Yes, we've tried the darkened room. The problem is that he doesn't wake the same way he does during the night. Overnight, he stirs/cries, and then practically dream-feeds, can change his nappy etc and he doesn't even open his eyes.
7pm, he is eyes wide open, wiggling to get out of his swaddle, face all lit up and just so cute it's hard not to play with him. He isn't hungry so won't feed, and there is no way to get him to sleep when he isn't tired.
This morning I didn't let him go back to sleep after his morning feed, even tho he was still tired. He fell asleep on the way back from the shops, but woke as soon as I tried to put him down. So we've had a bit of a grumpy morning. He seems to be having his long nap now, so we will see how tonight goes!
I've had one of these! DD didn't sleep before 11 until she was about 5 or 6 months and then we gradually moved her back - 10.45 for a few days and then 10.30 for a week.... and eventually she was settling at 8ish, but I think not until more like 8 months (when her day sleeps shifted significantly). By 2, she was pretty reliably going to sleep at 7.
DS1 did much the same but then all of a sudden he was tired at 7 and when put down, stayed down and I think this was earlier (maybe 4 months) too.
And DS2 was all over the place.
I guess I'm saying that I think it's a variation of normal and that I am absolutely certain that like everything else, it'll pass. I would tend toward not pushing againste it too hard and maybe just bringing it back in increments if you can.
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