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Can baby/toddler just be a light sleeper?
Every night before I go to bed, I go to check on the kids and make sure they are okay. With James, I can open the door, give him a kiss, adjust his blankets, etc. all without him waking up.
With Ben, I have to open the door extremely carefully, and I try just to check if he's breathing by listening (my own paranoia-- I always have to make sure they are breathing before I can leave the room). If I make any little noise when opening the door, etc. he almost always wakes up and starts to cry.
On average, this occurs about 1-2 hours after the kids have gone to bed and fallen asleep.
I read Ferber's book a while ago, but I thought it said that kids go almost immediately into a stage of deep sleep when the first go to bed. When James was Ben's age, if I remember correctly, he would be fast asleep and I could also go into his room no problem without worrying about waking him up.
So, why does Ben wake so easily if he's supposed to be in a deep sleep? Can this just vary based on the individual child? My husband urges me not to go in there for fear of waking him, but there's no way I could fall asleep myself without checking on him.
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Re: Can baby/toddler just be a light sleeper?
Hey there mama!!!
I think all babies are different and some can be light sleepers. Or you can have my kid who can sleep through loud crashing noised but will wake from the crinkle of a paper bag. It is really strange!! Just last night I dropped the remote, saw in the camera that Bella jumped in her sleep but didn't wake, but if type on the keyboard and she hears it, that will wake her....weird!
I barely sleep staring at the video monitor too!!!
I think they can be light sleepers. I am very careful when I check on the kids. Thankfully I've never woken them up by opening the door, but don't want to push it.
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Yes Lilah is a deep deep sleeper, but if she is woken up during the night sometimes it is hard to get her to go back to sleep.
Amelia is such a light sleeper, but she sleeps solid all night long. I know she is getting good sleep though.
Oops, forgot to post that (my tickers stopped working a while ago). He's 15 months.
I truly believe my DS is a light sleeper. I can't go check on him because his bedroom door sticks and I know with zero doubt in my mind I'd wake him up. That's the main reason he still has a sound machine at nearly 2 years old.
We do have a small house, old squeaky wood floors and many doors that stick when the temperature changes. And we live in a city-like environment where there's always trash trucks, car alarms, a fire station 2 miles away and always a dog barking and someone cutting their grass or putting up a new roof. I fear even taking a shower when he's napping!
I think kids are all different sleepers, just like adults. My DH can sleep through anything, where I'm up all night from one thing or another!
DS was a very light sleeper until well past 2. Our bedrooms were downstairs with the kitchen upstairs, and the bedroom was next to the bathroom. I'm shocked we didn't kill each other because of it. We couldn't wash the dishes or flush a toilet after he went to bed for at least 18 months or he would wake up. Not might wake up, would wake up. It sucked so bad I'm still scarred from it.
He's past 3 now and most nights we can flush the toilet in the middle of the night but I still worry about it and some nights he does wake up.