Need serious sleep help please!!!

girl75

our son (13mo) sleeps from 630-515 am and naps at 9am and 1230pm for about 90 minutes each. The morning nap is getting a little shorter as her gets older. I am petrified for Daylights Savings (clocks fall back). I do not want to start my day at 415am. We did Ferber at 6 mo. He soothes to sleep and was STTN which was my only saving grace. Now he is getting up 2 times a night and when I go in I pick him up, put in his paci,sing our bedtime song and put him back in and walk out. If it is 4am or before he goes back no problem. if it is closer to 5am- he is standing with a smile and thinks it's daytime. I feel sick just writing this- Needless to say I am very tired(with a job abd a 2 year old as well). I can deal with the 630 to 530 but now that he is waking (and sometimes crying when I leave) it stinks because I can't sleep when he cries (walls to thin). Do you think its the picking up and singing that is messing him up? With my dd, I would give her the paci but never pick her up. For the record I spent months trying to get him to sleep later with no success- Please Help me!!!

karlatrotman

i would cut one of the naps.  have him take one nap during the day for 2 hours or however long.  we did this for my 2 year old.  we also put him to bed at 7 or 8.  room darkening shades helped keep him asleep as well.  when he used to wake up we didn't sing or anything b/c that seemed to wake him up more, just patting/rubbing his back until he fell asleep would do the trick.

i'm so sorry that you are going through this...i've been there.