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ArcticFox
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2 mo old goes to bed 1am... help!
ArcticFox
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I have a toddler and a 2 mo old and this is getting rough. I can't go to bed this late and get up early, i'm SAHM and exhausted!
My infant doesn't have much of a schedule, but she does seem to consistently go to bed around 1 am. Is there anything I can do?
- sometimes she is up at 8am with me when my toddler gets up, but then other times she wakes to eat and sleeps til like 10:30am.
- i have tried "easy" but that is pretty common sense anyway. As soon as she is tired she just screams,. so I can't overstimulate, try to keep her awake, or wake her up.
- yesterday she slept well through the day, tons of naps.. but still 1am. Then there are days like T-giving where she was basically up 6pm-2am.
- i try to get her to sleep as soon as i see tiredness.
do I just wait it out?
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Re: 2 mo old goes to bed 1am... help!
if you are sleeping from around 1 to 8.... wow, i'm jealous! i'm generally running on 4-5 hours of broken up sleep... maybe i should call them naps.
does she get sleepy in her swing or from nursing that you could try to make her drowsy earlier? otherwise, i would try your hardest to keep her up during the day.
No... she doesn't sleep 1-8.. she still gets up every 3-4 hours unless she is super tired (then it is 5 hours)... BUT - she only wakes to eat. between 1-8, which isn't bad.
I have tried to keep her up during the day and she just screams, so it doesn't work
Not like cruelly keeping her up, but trying to keep her occupied while she is in a good mood.. does not last long!
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Hang in there. One of my girls was like that for a couple of weeks right before she hit two months. It was awful. She got really fussy around 9 or 10 and kept it up until 1 or 2. It was exhausting and frustrating because nothing worked. Then, one night, she got tired at 9. We swaddled her and put her to bed and she was out within 5 minutes. That was more than a month ago and she has gone to bed between 8 and 10 every night since, and has slept through the night all but once or twice.
We didn't do anything to bring about this change--she did it herself. Our past attempts to put her down early, start bedtime routines, etc. were all failures because she wasn't ready. So I would just keep an eye on her and put her down as soon as you see her looking tired. One of these days it will happen before 1.
Oh--and her daytime napping doesn't interfere with her nighttime sleeping. There are days when they both pretty much sleep all day, but they still sleep through the night.
I'm in the exact same boat. We'll try to start "bedtime" around 8 or 9, but he just hangs out awake until closer to 1. He's then up again around 5 and 8, but will generally fall back asleep after both feedings until closer to 11.
He is at least sleeping a few decent stretches at night, but I'd prefer to shift the whole thing earlier! Especially since my husband has to be up at 7am.
I read somewhere that babies need to "unwind" and reflect on all the stimulation from the day. Maybe if you turn the lights down, play quiet music, speak softly, etc it may put him in the "mood" to sleep.
Good Luck.