Resettling between sleep cycles - HELP!

[Mumma T]

Santosha

Does he get upset as soon as he wakes? No not usually. He usually has a look around the room first and cries out when he wants attention.

leave them to play for a while. At least then they get 'rest' in a darkened room for a longer period instead of being straight back into a stimulating environment. It also communicates to the body that the down time is longer than 40 mins with the hope that as they naturally fall into more of a routine, that say, 9-10am they're used to being in bed. - Yeah this might be a good idea.


Oh and 7-7??!!! Sheesh. That's great! Can he come and have a chat to my 13 month old? If only it was that easy

How I don't miss those good 'ol 40 minute sleep cycles lol! With DS2 I would sneak into his room a few minutes before the 40 minute sleep cycle was up. I stayed out of sight and as soon as he stirred a tiny bit (he'd sigh) I started patting him gently, this would help him go back to sleep. But only sometimes, it didn't guarantee he'd keep sleeping. Probably one of his sleeps a day it would work.

I have tried this but all I managed to do was wake him accidently oops.

I used to really stress about it but now I just go by her behavior. If she wakes happy and alert, I get her up. If she wakes crabby, I cuddle or try a top-up feed and sometimes she goes back to sleep. Otherwise I just keep putting her down as soon as I see tired signs. I don't care if that means 4-5 naps a day, at least she's getting as much sleep as I can encourage.

I am thinking this might be my best option. Especially after speaking to one of my girlfriends this afternoon and her saying she had exactly the same problem and never did manage to get her little One to sleep more than half hour at a time.

Thanks Ladies

[Aussiegirl777]

Does he use a dummy? I did the same as a couple of the other girls. I used to go into his room just before he was due to come out of a cycle and in my case, I'd put his dummy back in. It seemed to do the trick and off he'd go again. DS has always only used his dummy at sleep time. He's 17 months old now, he's a great sleeper but I know that if I go into his room at 5am and pop his dummy back in that he will more than likely sleep until 8am instead of 7am.