My 2 month old had been waking up around 10 at night and stays up until almost midnight I've tried having him stay up from 7 until almost 9 hoping he will be tired enough to sleep but he still wakes right back up does any one have any ideas on what to do to help him sleep
Sleep begets sleep. Is he napping during the day? When are you starting your bedtime program? My littlest is a terrible daytime napper, but we still manage to get little 20 min naps throughout the day and he ends up sleeping for 3-4 hour stretches at night with 1/2 hr gaps for feeding. When we are up for feeding I don't unwrap him completely. He sort of sleep eats, I burp him and change his diaper, then he feeds on the other boob until he falls asleep, usually pretty quickly. I only unwrap as much as I need to change a diaper, and we don't turn on any lights. We have a nightlight and that's it.
We have found bedtime and nighttime sleep is the best when LO has good daytime naps, but we are still struggling with naps and bedtime too. Everyone says it but I have been trying to institute a routine at night and it seems like it may be helping.
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