How can I get him to sleep a lil longer?

Daniel has got into a horrible habit of thinking that 5:40am is his awake time for the day. Man does it suck!!!!

He was going to bed at 6:30pm so we thought that might be early so we changed it to 7-7:30, depending on how long his bath etc is. It worked great the first night, he slept through til 7am, but now he's gone back to 5:40..

He's not hungry, hot, cold, nappy has more room for more pee, nothing is "wrong" with him..

If I try feeding him he only takes like 50mls so now I don't bother, because at 7ish he will take a proper feed.

If I just leave him he sits in his cot and talks to himself until someone gets him up. I've left him for up to just over an hour and hes still there going ba ba ba b a ba to himself. So no one gets any sleep.

I've tried bringing him in with us in hopes he will go back to sleep. Sometimes this works, mostly not though, this morning for example I did this and it took him an hour to go back to sleep

His room is still dark at this hour cause we have a black out shade.

He needs the extra bit of sleep because when you go into him he's still yawning and rubbing his eyes like crazy and still has bags under his eyes. And if you do get him up he only stays up for about half an hour before he gets all grizzly.

How can I get him to sleep a bit longer?

I would just do that but when I've tried that he's a right little grump all day long.

Ella also has a bad habit of waking up at 6 (no idea why as she isn't hungry b/cause she still has a feed in the middle of the night). I find that white noise does help when she wake up early- we have gotton into the happen of when she starts calling out at around 5.30/6 I go into her room half asleep and turn the music on and then go back to sleep for another hr. Works about 70% of the time.

What are his day sleeps like. I use the routines in Save our sleep book and it says that babies consider any sleep before 9am as part of there night sleeps. Maybe try keeping him up until 9.30am and then putting him to bed. I know this is hard and he will get grumpy but it worked for Madison.

Good luck, i know that an hour more sleep in the morning makes all the difference

Ugh Stacey, that sucks! I hope that you can get things sorted. I do think we should be heading towards 2 longer naps rather than 4 shorter ones now, so maybe if you try fiddling with the day sleeps the night sleep will go longer?

kebakat wrote: Yeah I've tried getting him to sleep longer but it just doesn't happen. I'm aiming for 3 sleeps, one morn, one just after lunch and then another lateish avo

In the past month our daysleeps have settled down, and she has has a sleep at 9 (only 1 hr),12 and 4 (which I am very happy with). Slightly off topic, but at what age should they be moving to having 2 day sleeps.

Sorry Stacey i have no help both mine wake at 8 but they only sleep that long cos they are up half the night.

Caprece has 2 sleeps one in the morning and one in the afternoon, one is 45 mins, the other is about 3 hours. If we are out and about she will have 3 45 min ones.

I never figured this out either. Cohen wakes at 5.30am even after being up twice in the night. DH and I take turns getting up with him - we play for an hour, get the other two breakie etc and then put him back to bed where he stays until 8.30ish.

My other two are early waker's also, but so are my husband and I, just not as early as them. The plus side is that we were never late for school or DC

Are there some safe toys you could put in his cot before you go to bed so that he might play a little quieter for a while before waking you up?

Well this morning we had a little bit of success. He woke up at 5:50. I went and made him a bottle, he actually drank it. Dumped him straight back into bed, shoved the white noise on and in half an hour he did go back to sleep. He got up at 7:20am

To be honest we just resettled Maddie and then ignored her.