Babies: 6 - 9 Months
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Bedtimes?
Starishna
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What time do you put LO down for the night? And how old are they? How long do they stay asleep? And what time are they up for the day?
My DD will go to bed before 9 and will sleep until 5 am, briefly eat then sleep until 730am. She is then up for the day and we are having trouble with naps. She barely takes a morning nap because she fights it. She is now getting sleepy at 630pm but I don't want her up for the day at 430 am. Any suggestions?
My DD will go to bed before 9 and will sleep until 5 am, briefly eat then sleep until 730am. She is then up for the day and we are having trouble with naps. She barely takes a morning nap because she fights it. She is now getting sleepy at 630pm but I don't want her up for the day at 430 am. Any suggestions?
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Re: Bedtimes?
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She wakes up between 6 and 7 with one wake up to nurse that lasts about 15 minutes.
DD is 6.5 months old. Bedtime routine (bath, lotion, medicine, etc) starts between 6:30 and 7pm... whenever I start seeing tired cues. She's in the crib by 7:30pm. 95% of the time she sleeps through until we wake her for daycare at 6:15am. On those random nights she does wake, it's usually between 9pm and 11pm - and she eats for 5-10 minutes and is passed back out.
She usually naps twice for 30-45 minutes at daycare, and once for about an hour when we get home. I don't let her sleep after about 5:30pm.
I agree with PP - just because she goes to bed earlier, doesn't necessarily mean she's going to wake up earlier. I would try bedtime when she gets sleepy around 6:30pm... be consistent for a few days and see if it suits her better.
My LO is 6 months, and still has 3 day naps. Her last nap ends just before supper. Then she is put to bed whenever she shows a tired signal between 8:30 and 9:30 (its not exact because her nap times/lengths vary). She wakes once to nurse somewhere around 5. She will usually sleep til 7:30-8. If she wakes before I bring her in bed to nurse so I can get a bit more sleep. I don't leave my bed til after 8 as a rule
Her first nap is 2 hours after waking, the other 2 vary, but its usually 3 naps totalling 5h.
As for suggestions-babies vary a lot. My LO won't sleep longer than 10h total overnight, but many do sleep longer than 12. You can try putting her down when she's tired and see what happens. You might be pleasantly surprised. If naps are your main concern I found a lot of good info in No Cry Nap Solution.
He takes 2 naps during the day, and they range anywhere from 30 min to 1.5 hours.
I would try to follow your LO's cues for a few nights and see how it goes.
DD is 7.5 months.
She goes down around 7pm. Sometimes she sleeps through to 7am, sometimes up around 10-11 for a quick feeding and up again at 5am. She takes a 1-2 hour nap 2 hours after she wakes up and another one around 1:30-2pm.
For all of you who have one - two wake ups, did you sleep train? We are in sleep hell. LO is 6 months, 1 week old, and is waking 5 - 8 times/night. Our longest stretch right now is 2.5 hours and most of the others are 30 - 60 minutes. It's killing me (and my productivity at work). We did transition her to her crib last week (from the RNP) so maybe that's part of it. Her sleep wasn't great in the RNP either though - better than this, but still not great. She had great night sleep from 7 weeks to 14 weeks (when I returned to work) and it has deteriorated graduallly since then. She's clearly tired, but wants to be held or in bed with us (which we do not want - nothing wrong with cosleeping but I don't sleep well with her there and it's just not for us). Ugh.
Anyway, she goes down between 7 and 7:30 pm. Wakes for the day sometime between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. Tons of night wake ups. I usually feed her (EBF) 3 times in the night, but she wakes up more than that. Naps are a mess - sometimes 90 minutes, more often 25 - 40 minutes, several times/day, sometimes just 15 minutes. I've done tons of self-education on sleep and we have good strong bedtime and naptime routines. She's at an in-home care (that we love).
Ideas or advice are welcome. I am hoping to avoid cry it out routines, but we're almost ready to try anything.