This makes me feel way off. My LO goes to bed around 10:00. my husband works late so he would be so mad if he only got a hour or so with him every night. Plus I get to have morning time to clean my house and such. He's on a to the t schedule but he just stays up late I guess.
If your baby is STTN and not waking up a billion times, then I would say this is working for you guys and wouldn't change a thing! But if LO wakes a ton, then everything I have read suggests that step one is an earlier bedtime to get babies more in synch with natural sun/melatonin rhythms, etc.
From what I've read, all babies have a natural time that they should be put to bed. If they stay up later than that,they get overtired and have trouble sleeping. For most it's between 6 and 8, but if your LO isn't sleepy until later, you might be just fine.
@kodariah My LO used to go to bed at 10, but she naturally started to go to bed earlier to where she is in bed by 8-8:30 now. It all started when she began to fight naps (she's only getting 30-45 min naps, an hour if we're lucky), and it definitely makes her more tired in the evenings. Also she's not STTN. Anyways, it sounds like your LO is right on track for
Alright I feel better. If I try to put him to bed earlier then he wakes more but right now he sleeps 10-6 eats a little and then sleeps until he's ready to be up for the day. He's got himself on a schedule so he's eating and napping the same time every day and if he does took bed to earlier that schedule is messed up to.
18 weeks and he's asleep by 8. I let him lead for now. He usually wakes up between 6-8am. Short nap in the morning, long nap around 2, and then we start our routine around 7pm and he sleeps through the whole night.
I didn't realize I had a problem until I read this. We aim for bedtime at 7:30, but go 30 minutes in either direction. She gets up at 1am to eat and needs her binkie put back in at 4am; however she wakes up at 5am ready for the day and then naps from 7am-7:30, 9:30am-10:30am, 1pm-3pm, 5:30pm-6pm. What can I do to get her to sleep in more? It seems I am the only one who has such an early riser.
@ChrissyD1203 The only way I can get LO to sleep in longer is if I bring her into the bed with us. And give her the binky. Between the 4 month shots and the sleep regression though, the only way I can get her to sleep much at all anymore is to bring her into the bed with us.
@ChrissyD1203 one thing I've found is when my little one end up waking up around 5:30 instead of 6:00 I let him play in his crib till 6:00 (as long as he's just "talking" in there and not crying). I read in a couple books that helps them to keep an established internal clock. Maybe you could try that and just push out how long you let her stir in the crib before getting up to see if you could push her wake up a bit?
I do what pp suggested! He also tends to wake up anywhere between 5 and 7 (usually 5 lately) and I let him hang out in his crib and talk and play until he starts fussing to get up.
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