Confusing behaviour

Not sure if this is going to continue but for ages and ages Sam would wake anywhere between 6-8AM, sleep till 10AM or so and then be up till about 12:30 when he would have his first nap. He would sleep for a few hours, be up for a few hours and then have another nap between 4-5PM. He would get up, and till at least 9PM he would be awake. We would then do the whole bedtime routine and he would go to sleep relatively easy at about 10PM.

Something has changed, I can't put my finger on it but for the last couple of days he is totally resisting his afternoon sleep deciding to instead scream his lungs out, thrash about, sweat through layers of clothing because he is so worked up. I have tried feeding, changing, rocking, singing, talking, sshhhing, keeping his room quiet and dark, you name it, I've tried it, but he just screams his little head off for hours until he finally gets so exhausted that he crashes out for 12 hours!

He already has two teeth and although he was a wee bit grizzly with them, he wasn't overly concerned. He's not constipated, he doesn't vomit, it's not wind or hunger and I check his temperature repeatedly only to read that it's like 36.8 or at the most 37.1.

Getting a bit confused here! Not complaining about the 12 hour sleeps though!

Any ideas?

Edited by neeandsam

Sore ears??

Cos he can?

I'd say he's trying to drop that sleep, and that might be just for a little while (Caitlin did this to me! Went from 3 to 2 to 1 and back to 3 sleeps again! lol)

Also, I personally think 10pm is too late to have a 4mth old up (unless it's a dream feed). With Caitlin, the latest she was up was 8.30pm-9pm and she would still sleep to 6-7am. Also, to avoid any conflict I have always let her tell me when she is tired enough for a nap by her tired signs etc and now I ask her if she wants to go for a nap and she gets her bear/dolly/book and goes to her room (cute aye! lol). But that's just me, you do whatever works for you guys

P.S
I love the comment "cause he can" that is SOOOOOO true!

i found that just before the boys started crawling, they dropped a sleep, and once they crawled they were expending more energy and needed an extra sleep again.

Two Blondinis, I totally agree that 10pm is too late for him to be up and for some reason it just crept later and later each week until he was sometimes up later than that. I think he was trying to tell me that it was too late and instead of trying to get him to have that evening nap I have been trying to keep him up a bit longer in the morning and now he's having the one nap and then in the evenings I'm not putting any pressure on him to sleep, I'm just slowly going through the bedtime routine and for the past three days he's been in bed asleep by 7:30PM!!!! and he sleeps right through till 6-7AM! YAY, I am so pleased. Thank you all.