Why is he like this?

Being Learner Parents we have no idea why DS is doing this.

We are trying to move his bed time from 930 to a little earlier but he doesnt want a bar of it. We are tryng the routine thing. We bath/shower him then give him play and then give him a bottle. We turn all the light off so its more relaxed but he just screams and screams.

When it eventually gets to 930 its like he knows and just crashes.

What do we do?:wall:

i would just keep his bedtime at 9.30 for now and see what happens in a couple of weeks. But my DD is a sht sleeper so probably ignore any advice i give :lol:

I would stick with this routine. My DD fell into her own routine. She used to crash at 10/11 but now shes in bed by 7/8. But dont count last night when it was almost 10:30 :p

Hes still really young so i would just go with him. It does get better i promise :)

At one month ds slept all the time still, Does he sleep every few hours?

At one month old we didnt really have PLAY time only tummy time and cuddles etc, maybe you are over stimilulating him.... Our ds just ate and slept at that age....

by play time i mean like snuggles with daddy. He still sleeps every few hours for an hour or 2 at a time.

Is there there a thing as too much sleep for an 8w old?

Nope. My DD slept all the time up until she was i think 3 months. They do a lot of growing and developing so they need to sleep and will just want to sleep and eat. If you try keep him awake longer it will just make him over tired and then you have yourself one cranky bubba.

You're doing perfectly! DD started going to bed around 7pm at 4ish months...before that it was all over the place.

As he sleeps less in the day, he'll shift his bedtime forward...around 12 weeks they go through a big developmental leap and will start having shorter day sleeps, before consolidating them into a clearer awake and asleep time (or thats what happened with DD and most babies in our mothers group).

My DD at 2 now goes to bed at 9pm after a year and a bit of a 7pm bedtime - they change all the time so just go with it!

HTH

My DS only slept 2 - 3 hours at a time at that age, and he also had his days and nights mixed up... you're going through one of the toughest times, so try and stick with the routine, eventually it'll work, but right now, he isn't interested in what you want! Hehe

From 5 months old my son has been sleeping 13 hours straight at night, so you will get there, but he's still a little young yet.

The thing that kept me going is that it would get better in a few months... and it does, as much as its hard to believe when people keep telling you that.

Good Luck!

We had the same problem! So now with our girls, for their last day sleep, I don't let them sleep past about 5.30pm, even if it means waking them up (I HATE waking sleeping babies!). Most of the time I dont actually put them in bed for it - we either go for a walk in the pram or they have a snooze in front of the heater on their rug. Then we do bath/cuddles etc then feed and bed. It works pretty well for them because they are that bit more tired and ready to go down. They generally are in bed by 6.30pm now which is great because we can spend some time with DS.
Yesterday their day was
Wake at 7.30am - sleep 9.15am
Wake at 11am - sleep at 12.30pm
Wake at 3pm - sleep in the pram from 4.30-ish until we got home at about 5
Then some floor time (ie. they layed there while DS 'entertained' them), then bath and into bed at 6.30pm

(I have write everything down for them, so I remember who did what - this is how I know how their day went!).

Ooh yeah, we do the same, no sleeping past 5pm!

you could try bringing bed time forward by 15 mins every 5-7 days, so thens its a gradual change....

Does he need sleep earlier or is it what you want? If it's the latter I'd just leave it and go with the flow. It's not worth the extra stress. He'll get himself into his own routine in his own time. :)

:hug: Its so tough in the beginning learning about your new little human. I would follow his cues and just let him sleep/feed when he wants and things will fall into place. He is still so tiny and learning all about the outside world. You are doing a great job :hug:

All 3 of my kids started off going to bed 9/9:30pm, dd is still in that stage. By 3-4 months the boys were going to bed by 7pm. And I am sure dd will be the same. Things just kind of fall into place, generally when you have given up on things changing lol.