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So that was a fail...

Firedancer1013Firedancer1013
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DS has been STTN for ever it seems like and I just messed with a good thing and screwed it up apparently. He typically goes to sleep around 9p. Last night he slept 11 hours and I was just sitting around waiting for him to wake until 8a so I figured we should try an earlier bedtime. Well, that backfired because although he did sleep eight hours, it is now 3:00a and he's up and hungry. Why did I not just let him be? Tonight we are so back to 8:30-9:00 bedtime.
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Re: So that was a fail...

  • summersoff17summersoff17
    this just happened to me too, unfortunately my baby does not STTN but we were putting him to bed between 9-10 and he'd wake up between 2-3 (which was ok, but I have to get up for work at 5 so it didnt really allow me much time to get more sleep after I fed him and pumped) so last night he was hungry around 8:15 and I thought PERFECT I'll do his bedtime routine and then he'll get up between 1-2 and I can sleep again a couple hours before I have to go to work--NOPE- he woke up at 11:30 DH was pissed and again at 3:55---so this definitly backfired and I expect to be one sleepy lady today, especially since I have to work and then tonight I'm going out to dinner and a show with my girlfriends--ARGH :(
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  • Firedancer1013Firedancer1013
    Yea, DS woke and was up from 3a-5a, because right after nursing he had a huge poop which woke him up when I went to change his diaper and then he wanted to nurse again.  Then he slept for 2 more hours and was up at 7a, bright and awake.  He stayed up for another hour or so and then napped for like a half hour, just enough time for me to get a shower in at least.  Normally he is asleep until 7a and then gives me a good 2 hour nap and then is up for the day.  I should have showered and gotten ready at 5, but I was too tired and went back to sleep.  
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  • mimi1017mimi1017 member
    I can't get DS on a bedtime routine :/ Is that bad? He kind of just sleeps whenever he wants. Which is ok I suppose right now since I'm not back to work yet. But when I do go back to work I see it as potentially becoming a problem. Sometimes I just kinda feel like I'm not doing the right thing.
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    imagemimi1017:
    I can't get DS on a bedtime routine :/ Is that bad? He kind of just sleeps whenever he wants. Which is ok I suppose right now since I'm not back to work yet. But when I do go back to work I see it as potentially becoming a problem. Sometimes I just kinda feel like I'm not doing the right thing.
    We don't have a bedtime routine either. Lucas usually is up from 9:30-11 and then sleeps from 12-4. It works for us and it gives us a nice chunk a sleep. Between the 9:30-11 time, MH gives him a bottle so I can get more sleep. I pump before he wakes up.
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  • Firedancer1013Firedancer1013

    imagemimi1017:
    I can't get DS on a bedtime routine :/ Is that bad? He kind of just sleeps whenever he wants. Which is ok I suppose right now since I'm not back to work yet. But when I do go back to work I see it as potentially becoming a problem. Sometimes I just kinda feel like I'm not doing the right thing.

    No, DS pretty much set his schedule from the get-go, we were just really lucky that he likes to sleep so long at night.  I was just thinking about when I go back to work that if he would go to bed a little earlier, then he would get up a bit earlier, and I wouldn't have to wake him so early and make him upset.  I tried to put him down to sleep a little early because he was sleeping more and he gave me the cues last night that he was tired earlier, likely because he didn't get in a good afternoon nap.  I was hoping that would be a better pattern for him going to sleep earlier, but turns out that was not the case.  Hopefully he'll be back to his regular bedtime tonight and STTN again. 

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  • mimi1017mimi1017 member
    imageFiredancer1013:

    imagemimi1017:
    I can't get DS on a bedtime routine :/ Is that bad? He kind of just sleeps whenever he wants. Which is ok I suppose right now since I'm not back to work yet. But when I do go back to work I see it as potentially becoming a problem. Sometimes I just kinda feel like I'm not doing the right thing.

    No, DS pretty much set his schedule from the get-go, we were just really lucky that he likes to sleep so long at night.  I was just thinking about when I go back to work that if he would go to bed a little earlier, then he would get up a bit earlier, and I wouldn't have to wake him so early and make him upset.  I tried to put him down to sleep a little early because he was sleeping more and he gave me the cues last night that he was tired earlier, likely because he didn't get in a good afternoon nap.  I was hoping that would be a better pattern for him going to sleep earlier, but turns out that was not the case.  Hopefully he'll be back to his regular bedtime tonight and STTN again. 

    Hope everything works out!! Good luck!! =]

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