When a reluctant sleeper child sleeps....

If you have a child who doesn't have high sleep needs, do you freak out when they sleep?


I do. And then feel bit silly cos i could have enjoyed the peace and quiet.

Yes! My kids have all been early risers (4/5am), but we went on holidays to see family in the last 3 weeks, and they were staying up late/very late some nights (as in 9/10pm, which is late for them since they're usually in bed by 6.30/7), and began sleeping in until after 6.30, even sleeping until 7am one morning! I was freaking out every morning and going to check on them at 5am, because I was wide awake!
Now we're home, I have changed their bed time to 7.30pm, and they're still sleeping until after 6am, which is a HUGE win in our house! I was getting really sick of 4am starts!

I had a conference and was in a beautiful hotel with a beautiful room with a kingside bed all to myself.

I still woke about 5 times overnight and gave up and got up sound 6.

I don't have reluctant sleepers but DD2 does generally wake once before we get into bed, when she doesn't I do tend to wake her up by accident when we get to bed by checking her breathing anyway!

I'm convinced DD1 has died :( I know that's irrational but she literally never sleeps longer than a 2 hour block at night. She's gone through the night once in the last 12 months, and it freaked me out.

^^ My kids all used to be like that PZ. THey never slept through the night (as in longer than 5hrs stretch) until after 18mths. DS2 is 3 in 3 months and is only now regularly sleeping the whole night, most nights. I still check on my kids once a night after I''ve actually gone to bed, usually around2-3am.

There is hope!

I remember the first time DS1 slept through his 3am feed ... so he usually woke for a feed at 3am, 7am, 11am, 3pm, 7pm, 11pm. One morning, I woke at 6am, realised he hadn't woken at 3am, and I RAN down the hall to his bedroom, throwing lawn furniture (in my head) out of the way.

He was asleep. Fast asleep.

I was wide awake.

on the day I wrote this miss 3.5 years had fallen asleep in car after a day at the zoo (not too surprising cos it had been a big week), but when we got home instead of being hyper and keeping me up till late, she came inside and fell back asleep on the couch. slept through dinner, and I took her to bed with me because I was concerned she had concussion or something :lol: I even took her temp, and was considering taking her to the hospital because it was so out of character.

in the morning she was fine and had two bowls of cereal. I said 'did you fall asleep last night and sleep through dinner?' .oh, yes, I was so tired from all our adventures!'.