Pushing back bedtime

Boo0512

Has anyone had success with putting their LO to bed later and them staying asleep longer at night?

My dd used to go to bed around 9pm and she always slept till at least 6:30am. I know the sleep regression is screwing us up but this seems ridiculous.

About 2 months ago dd started wanting to go to bed around 7pm. I followed her cues and started putting her to bed earlier and earlier. It was fine for the first couple of weeks; she was sleeping about 11-12 hours.

Since the sleep regression hit 6 weeks ago her sleep has gotten worse every week. Lately she'll sleep from 7pm-8pm wake up, eat, go back down till 9:30pm and she'll be wide awake. She stays up until around midnight and then she'll sometimes be up at 2am-5:30am. She doesn't nap much during the day probably a total of 2-2.5 hours.

How can she not be tired?? ( she is 23 weeks so I know she is probably starting the leap as well.

LaxMOM44

Spank her. No but seriously c has moved her be time up to 6pm and then does a long stretch until 11. After that it's a shit show. I started giving her more frequent feeds during the day and we started solids and she now goes from 6:30 to 2 or 3. Most nights. I can't help with mooing the bedtime back but maybe try feeding her more? What do I know?

SpanFran

Yeah, we have a super early bedtime over here too.  DS is almost always completely out by 6pm, meaning the process starts around 5-5:15.  Meaning he's a little crank by 4.  And he's up for the day between 5-6am. 

It actually works for us, but I'm getting tired of our family always lecturing us about how if we just kept him up all day long and never let him sleep ever and put him to bed at 10:30 at night, then he would TOTALLY sleep through the night. 

Boo0512

We haven't started solids yet but she nurses about 6-7x per day.

I know she is eating a lot in the MOTN because I usually change her diaper once during hat time and the next time I change her, the diaper is super wet.

She is so distracted during the day and I know she doesn't eat as much. I always take her into her room to nurse because its a little darker and its quiet. Sigh. I don't know how much longer I can take this. I went to sleep from midnight to-2am then was up till 5am and up again at 8:30am ~O) x10.

Shoegal36

Boo0512 said:

We haven't started solids yet but she nurses about 6-7x per day. I know she is eating a lot in the MOTN because I usually change her diaper once during hat time and the next time I change her, the diaper is super wet. She is so distracted during the day and I know she doesn't eat as much. I always take her into her room to nurse because its a little darker and its quiet. Sigh. I don't know how much longer I can take this. I went to sleep from midnight to-2am then was up till 5am and up again at 8:30am ~O) x10.

We are pretty much going through this exact same thing and she is waking up more and more at night. She doesn't seem hungry or interested in eating at all during the day, but eats a lot at night. If I try to feed her more often during the day, she's even less interested because she isn't hungry. Now I'm actually trying to stretch her feedings as long as I can so that she will actually eat (before I would feed her automatically at 2.5 hours but now I wait until she shows some sort of sign of being hungry). Not sure if that's going to help though. 

We haven't started solids either but I'm wondering if it's a sign that she is ready. We are going to an introduction to solids information session on Nov. 13th and I'm thinking I'm going to start after that. It's close enough to 6 months for me. 

This week I started keeping track of her sleeping and feeding to see if there is any kind of pattern and she is actually nursing between 9 and 11 times in 24 hrs! She was down to 6 or 7 a couple months ago! I feel like I have a newborn all over again...

Also, tonight she was up much later than her usual bedtime (around 8) because of Halloween visiting so I'm really curious how it will affect her sleep. 

coffeeandbooks

We haven't had a lot of success with pushing the bedtime back but I did notice that the one time LO went down on his own really early at 5:30 his mood was amazing the next day.  He overall has a good temperament but with the 5:30 bt he didn't whine at all the next day which he normally does when he gets tired.  
We still don't put him down though at 5:30 though because he does wind up having more of a wakeful period in the MOTN which I am not a fan of.