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OK. When I think thing are improving and I get few nights of good sleep, it starts all over again. If it is not teething, it is another developmental milestone. I have coped with sleep deprivation as best as I can.
Now James (almost 9 month) is teething, which is fine, but he wakes up at 4:45 am and is too happy to go back to sleep. He wants to play. I tell him it is still bedtime and not playtime. I rub his back and head. In addition, I keep my voice firm and quite. Once I think he is asleep and lI eave his room, he starts to cry. I don't understand what is going on, and why he is getting up this early. He is not going through a new developmental milestone. I don't think it is teething pain because he is too happy.
I know sometimes he can put himself back to sleep. I put him to bed at 8pm. Friend of mine told me that I should put him to bed earlier, and he'll sleep better. He does show signs of sleepiness as early as 6pm. Should I be putting him to bed earlier than 8, and would that help him to sleep later? I miss him waking up at 8am. :(
Any suggestions?
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| Posted by kathy on 09/19/2007 08:52 PM
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| You could try putting him to bed earlier. Sometimes being over tired makes it harder to get a good night's sleep. You could also try putting a few quiet toys in his crib for him to play with. If you could even keep him in bed until about 6, then he would probably go back down for a nap pretty early. My son has consistently gotten up between 5:30 and 6 am every day, no matter how early or late he goes to bed. Some children are just early risers. But 4:45 is very early, and there is nothing wrong with leaving him in his crib to amuse himself quietly for a while. |
| posted by Marcia on 09/19/2007 09:19 PM
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Hi,
I thought I was alone in this early waking up. Emilie's crib is still in my bedroom so I figured it was me or her dad waking her (her dad snores). I keep a few soft toys in her crib and she has a rain forest music box, it has some animals with lights. She likes to turn it on and off. She will usually go back to sleep, as long as she doesn’t see that I am awake. When she doesn’t I have her lay in bed with me and put the TV on low. There is not much on that early but nick at night has full house on and she likes watching the kids on it. I still put her to bed by 8 and most nights she will sleep through. There have only been two nights where I let her play in the living room and that was for less then a 1/2 hour, I figured if she played for a little bit it would make her tired. This is very frustrating, I feel like I am half asleep for the rest of the day.
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| posted by on 09/20/2007 08:39 AM
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Hey everyone,
My son isn't even 3 months old yet, so I haven't had much experiences in setting tight schedules for him yet, he mostly sleeps through the night, but it's all up to him. However, my boyfriend has 2 boys, Alex will be 5 in Dec. and Talan 2 at the end of the month. They use to stay with us 5 nights per week, so I got plenty of experience with them even before I became pregnant. I found that the best thing to do was to put them to bed around 9:00 or 9:30 and they would sleep until at least 8:00 or 8:30. Kathy, I think that your problem may be that you are putting James to bed too early. If he is so happy when he wakes at 4:45 am, he isn't overtired. If he naps during the day also he is getting plenty of sleep and putting him to bed earlier would only allow him to wake up earlier. |
| posted by Amy on 09/20/2007 09:09 AM
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| I think you should try putting him to bed a little later. if he is happy when he wakes up he had enough sleep. I recently started putting my nine month old to bed between 9 and 9:30 and now she sleeps until 7 or 7:30. When I put her to bed earlier she would wake up too early. I've noticed that she sleeps anywhere between 9 and 101/2 hours so putting her to bed later allowed me to sleep in the morning. |
| posted by Jaimie on 09/20/2007 04:26 PM
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| I would love to put him to bed a little later but at 6pm, he gets so tired that pushing past 8 may be too hard. He would end up falling asleep on the couch. I prefer avoiding that and want him to fall asleep in his crib. |
| posted by kathy on 09/21/2007 10:56 AM
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Hi again Kathy,
I'm curious about his nap schedule during the day. Putting him to bed at 6 PM is kind of like asking him to wake at 4 AM, that's 10 hours! If he is really sleepy around 6 PM why not just have him take a nap? If he slept for and hour, then he would probably be ready for bedtime at about 9:30 or even 10, which would allow him to sleep later and really isn't to late of a bedtime because babies don't have to wake up and do anything in the morning. I think that tweaking his nap schedule during the day is key to his night sleep schedule.
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| posted by Amy on 09/21/2007 01:43 PM
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