Will shortening his naps means he sleeps later in the morning?
DS is getting up awfully early. Today it was 5:30am, and that makes for a VERY long day.
On the plus side, he will have monster-sized naps, between 2-3 hours. This isn't so bad if I'm home with him because I can have a little nap then too, but with working 3 dpw, its not such a good thing.
So we were thinking of not letting him sleep beyond 2 hours during the day, in the hopes he will then sleep longer at night. But I was just talking to a friend, and she said she tried this and it made no difference whatsoever.
Has this plan worked for anyone? Is it worth trying?
With Ben.. who is 3 years old.. he wakes up at about 730-8 has a nap at 12-1 for 2 hours.. has play, food, dinner bath.. play and then to bed at 730-8pm
Same as DD she is now 18th months.. does the same pattern, but could do with a morning nap at times.
What time does he go to bed at night? I find DD needs about 14 hours sleep in a 24 period, so she usually sleeps 2 hours between 11:30am and 1:30pm and then sleeps 7-7 with a coupla feeds in between.
I find the later DD goes to bed, the earlier she is up. Weird I know.
Anyway, you could try and tweak the nap times/duration and see what happens? Also, how dark/quiet is it at 5:30am? Are there trucks or traffic, or birds or lights? I find DD always sleeps longer in our room where there are less birds (outside I mean...we don't keep birds in the house lol)
I haven't heard of many people who have had success with shortening their day sleeps so they sleep longer during the night. Sorry.
Like Arcadia has said, how dark is his room at 5.30am? How noisy?
Emily sleeps 12-13 hours at night, and 4 hours during the day. Even if she was to be woken earlier during her day sleep, she will still only sleep max 13 hours overnight.
As far as I can tell, there is nothing unusual (noise, lights etc) that wakes Peter up at the ungodly hours he is waking. He's just....up.
He goes to bed between 7:30-8:00pm, so if he's up at 5:30, its only like 10 hours sleep- I think he needs about 11 overnight because if he's up early he is so, so, so grumpy by 11am and is asking for bed again from about 9am! Arcadia its funny you should say the later your put your LO to bed, the earlier they get up- I swear thats true here as well. Of course we have tried keeping DS up later, but it made no difference whatsoever...!
Well, we might give it a try and see how it goes. I don't hold out much hope, but I suppose its worth a try. Which means I need to go and wake the beast....
We actually found with DD if she started waking up earlier in the morning, and having shorter sleeps in the morning, we would keep her up longer, even half an hour, it can be hardwork for that half an hour, but we found that she would sleep in longer, it was like the morning slept set her routine for overnight, rather then the length of the day nap.
HTH's it is so tricky when the switch theing up, just as we get used to them!! He isn't getting cold is he? We put DD back into a sleeping bag as she was waking up overnight, and last night she slept through to 6:30am for the first time in a couple of weeks
Take care and hopefully you get some more sleep ins soon!!
Will shortening his naps means he sleeps later in the morning?
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