Help!!

kristi041

DS has decided that he wants to start his day at 3:00 in the morning the last few nights.  He wakes up around 2:30 to eat and then I can't get him back to sleep until about 5 or 6 in the morning.  Then he sleeps until about 9 or 10 and he usually takes a pretty long nap during the day.  Yesterday I tried to wake him up at 7:30, but he wouldn't wake up... he just kept on sleeping through diaper change and everything.  How do I get him back on a normal schedule?  He never did this before.  TIA

kristi041

Oh, and he goes to bed around 8 every night. 

kristi041

mainerocks:

So he stays awake while he eats?

yes 

XCrissCrossX

My pedi told me to interrupt LOs sleep every three hours during the day. She said that I might not be able to wake him up enough to play and he might go back to sleep, but interrupting his sleep will help him see that day time is for being awake. I know lots of people disagree with this logic and I'm not sure it worked (we only did it for a few days) but at the time we figured it was worth a shot.

We do try to keep LO awake for 2-4 hours before bed at night so he gets a long stretch of awake time before his long stretch of sleep time.