When is it ok for them to stay awake

Ok, there is a similar thread going but i didn't want to steal it

Finley sleeps well at night, we get him up and down pretty quick and he goes down for 3/4 hours at a time which seems ok.

Day naps, well vary massively sometimes he goes down more often than not he does not.

His room has a black out blind so very dark, but he does stay awake a while, after a feed he likes to kick about and has a chatter and kick and stuff on his mat and seems very happy after he has been there a bit i get him and try to start settling him about 90 minutes after he woke but he won't sleep.

Today he was awake from 6.45  - 11, ahhhh. Should i still be trying to get him up and down within the hour if he looks awake - does this vary for every baby.

Are there tiredness signs i could be looking for earlier?

So many questions i know but any pointers here would be great!!

Plunket have a 'tired signs' video they lend out.

Totally agree with Stacey, I put Blake down after 90 mins now and he has been going to sleep so well even though to me he doesn't look tired at all (and I was watching him like a hawk for a yawn, rubbing his face etc and nothing) I thought that maybe I should be keeping him up longer but that definitely made things worse.

this thread came along just at the right time! my little poppit has no tired signs either. it was getting frustrating because she has such a small 'window' before she gets overtired...then she's up for hours! am going to try the 90 minutes awake, then down for a sleep regardless...

thanks ladies
x

I have to confess that I don't always 'put Bethany down' for a sleep. We like our cuddles! But I can almost guarantee you that once she hits the hour and a quarter mark, she'll either nod off or get a little scratchy. Either way, I just snuggle her and sometimes rock her slightly and that generally pushes her over the edge. She tends to have one big long nap in the day, usually early afternoon (but this varies!) and otherwise might only sleep for 20mins or sometimes and hour before being re-juvenated. And she's like that regardless of whether she's on me or in her own bed.

Fi, I think the best thing is to follow your own instincts once you've worked out his tired signs. Don't feel you have to put him into bed - snuggles and rocks work quite nicely to convince them that it is ok to fall asleep and they really won't be missing anything, lol.

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Caden isnt all the interested in day sleeps now, he still has them but he will only sleep for an hour or so, smetimes longer, but Id say he is only having 1 or 2 day sleeps now!

But when he was newborn he would be up for an hour then back down. Sometimes he could stay awake longer but generally he would be tired again after a little while.
His tired signs were, rubbing his eyes, a long winey cry whee his mouth would go into a oval shape and he sort o goes "ooww wahh oww wahh"(still does that), or if he is playing on his mat and he starts to lie still and just stare at the TV then I know he is tired, he also will turn his head to the side and roll his eyes a bit, or rub his face on things and he goes all red round the eyes.

If he does any of that, off to bed he goes.