So I know my little guy is not a typical baby. He almost never cries. (I wish he did sometimes, he doesn't even cry for a bottle). He goes to sleep around 8 and then will wake up and talk for awhile at random hours throughout the night. I don't know if he does this every night because he never cries and sometimes I don't hear him talking. Then he will wake up about 5 or 5:30 and talk until I go get him up. Sometimes I leave him to see if he will go back to sleep. He stays awake until about 7:30 when I finally go get him. But he always has a huge grin on his face and never cries. So I don't know how to get him to sleep longer. And I don't think it's a hunger thing. Any suggestions?
Re: Not your typical baby. Please help!
Also, waking up for the day between 5:30-8 is pretty standard. Not sure how late you expect him to sleep but you probably won't get much later.
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If he's sleeping 9 hours in the day does that mean he is only napping an hour? How do you get him to sleep for naps? Or night?
I'm all for leaving a happy baby to entertain themselves but there is a chance that after lying around for 2 full hours with no movement and little stimuli that your baby isn't needing naps because he hasn't done anything.
My daughter is 7 months and sleeps 15-17hrs a day. When she's up it's a mix of quiet alone time and active social time. Without the active social time I think she'd sleep way less. After all that stimuli she needs sleep to process it all.