Anyone else have a LO who only sleeps 9 hours at night?

acia

I keep thinking it's just a phase, but it's been going on for almost 6 months, which seems like it's probably too long to be a phase.... We've tried everything under the sun to get her to sleep longer - earlier bedtimes, later bedtimes, white noise, blackout curtains, rocking her, nursing her, leaving her, cosleeping, crib sleeping, tylenol, etc. But 90% of the time, when she wakes up after having slept for 9ish hours (which is 4-5am these days), she's done, and will not go back to sleep until her nap time about 6 hours later. I know she needs more sleep, because she's crabby when she wakes up and certainly doesn't make up for the sleep during her 1.5 hour nap. But I don't know what else to do except come to terms with the fact that she just doesn't like to sleep.

If you have a short night-time sleeper, what do you do? Put them to bed late so they sleep to a reasonable time in the morning? Or just go to bed with them at 8pm so you can get some rest? I'm trying to figure out how to get myself the rest I need while working within her schedule....

Kery1499

9 hours is pretty good I think... no? DD sleeps about 10-11 hours

-Have you tried keeping her up a little later? 

lilitaliangirl

I'd love a 9 hour night!!!!!!!! We are happy when he sleeps for more than 6 hours straight!!!! I will say he wakes up for a bottle in the middle of the night, but lately he wants to play. Fortunately, we can put him back in his crib and he just talks until he wears himself out.

Kery1499

I was also typing when I hit post- That

sorry if thats not much help =((   DD would go through phases and we started keeping her up a little later and that seemed to work out for us GL!

jalorable

Mine goes to bed around 7 and will wake between 4 and 6 every single morning. During the week it's fine because I have to get her Up to go to work and Daycare anyway but on the weekends it sucks. We give her a bottle pretty much first thing during the week, so we do the same on the weekends except instead of keeping her awake we simply lay her back down, pretending it's night (since it's still dark) and she always falls back to sleep for another hour or two.

first-time-mama

lilitaliangirl:

I'd love a 9 hour night!!!!!!!! We are happy when he sleeps for more than 6 hours straight!!!! I will say he wakes up for a bottle in the middle of the night, but lately he wants to play. Fortunately, we can put him back in his crib and he just talks until he wears himself out.

This!!! If I can put Noah into bed at 8-830 and have him not wake up till 5-6 id be in HEAVEN!  Right now he is waking at midnight and staying awake for almost 3-4 hours

LauranBilly

10 or so i dont think thats bad, maybe try to keep her up an extra hour?

aglenn

DD sleeps about 9 hours.  We, too, are struggling with trying to get her at least 10 at night because with the nightwakings (which are numerous) she really needs to be in bed for at least 10 total to avoid crankiness.  That last hour she is up and down a million times, though, so it's not very effective; but we are trying to get her used to being in her crib until 6am.  She goes to bed at 8.  I go to bed as soon as possible after she is down, usually by 9 or 9:30. 

emberlee3

ExpectantSteelerFan:

Ds is an early waker.  We have a rule in our house that we don't go in or get him out of his crib before 6 no matter what.  So if he wakes up early, he stays in the crib, even if he's crying.  Usually he sleeps till 6 or so, but then he'll go through a phase of early waking again and we just have to be consistent.

This.  If it's before 6, I go in briefly, pat the mattress, and tell him it's still night-time (just like we do if he wakes in the night).  He talks, fusses, rolls around, plays with his stuffed animals, and occasionally goes back to sleep.  We had serious early-waking issues (before 5 am, every day) before we started doing this.  Within a week or two of being consistent about 6 am, he was staying asleep until 5:30-6 every day.

jess0104

My LO sleeps about 9 hours also, but he is a night owl.

He won't go to bed until nearly 11. We try to put him to bed earlier every night, thinking we will gradually move this back, but nothing helps. Even if he sits and screams in his crib he will NOT go to sleep. You would think he would exhaust himself...but no..

Good news is he also sleeps in until 8 a.m.

He is also still taking 2 naps, maybe once he no longer needs 2 naps we can work out an early bedtime.

Leap08

My daughter also only sleeps 9-10 hours at night, which usually means she's up between 5 & 6. I don't mind so much during the week because I need to get up at 5:30 for work anyway, but I would be nice if she would sleep later on the weekend every once in awhile. I also have tried numerous things to get her to sleep later, and none of them have worked. I just think that 10 hours is her maximum.