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SLEEP => General Sleep Issues => Topic started by: Liam and Shane's Mommy on August 31, 2005, 16:32:42 pm
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My 3 1/2 mos. old has been doing some really wierd things lately. He use to sleep about 11-11 1/2 hours at night including one early morning feeding. Now its more like 10-101/2 hours. The reasons for this include either hard to get to sleep at night, sometimes night waking, or after first morning feed only sleeping for another hour instead of 2 - 21/2 hours. I admit he was falling asleep at the breast in the evenings and the first morning feed but for whatever reason he doesn't want to do this anymore.
I don't know what to do when he starts out his day overtired. It means every nap is only 40 minutes (he'd previously do most naps at 40 minutes with the occasional longer stretch. He's now impossible to resettle if he wakes up early and it isn't that's not still tired.
I'm at my wit's end. We start putting him to bed at eight pm with the intention he be up by 8AM or thereabouts.
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Sorry you haven't gotten any replies! :oops: When my lo starts the day overtired, I first try to put her down for her morning nap really early - at 3.5 months, maybe after an hour or less. Then, regardless of how the naps go (probably short all day :roll: ), I try to put her down for bed really really early. So if you're aiming for an 8 am wake up and he's already overtired, what about putting him down by 6:30?
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Won't she just consider that a nap and wake up soon after?
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If she's really tired, and she wakes after, treat it as a night waking and do no activity.