On vacation and 10 month old won't sleep past 4:30 am

[Chariel]

Hey everyone!

Looking for some advice on how to get my 10 month old to sleep a bit later then 4:30 am for the rest of our vacation in Florida! We only have 4 more days left but this early start to the day is starting to wear me down! We had way more success getting him to sleep here then I expected the only problem has been that he is waking really early. We also dealt with a 1 hour time difference, an hour earlier here in Florida then at home. We have been here a week though and I thought he would have adjusted my now. Last fall when he dealt with the time change he adjusted in 3 days and we pretty much just ignored it and moved naps and bed time and it worked great. This time we did the same thing and not so much. We are also keeping pretty busy during the day but making sure he is back at the house for his naps. So here is a typical day!

4:30-5 am - Awake (I have been trying to wait until 6 am to feed but if he gets real cranky I will since I don't want to wake everyone else in the house)
7 - 7:30 am Breakfast
9 am - nap
10:30 am - Awake and eat
12 pm - Lunch
2 pm - Nap
3:30 - Awake
5 or 5:30 - Dinner
7 pm - Asleep

So at home I had shortened his morning nap to an hour because he was refusing his afternoon nap. I haven't been doing that since he is only getting usually 9.5 hours at night so he is tired enough to sleep at both naps. But maybe that is explaining the EW's? I know soon we will be home and things will get back to normal but I'm starting to be so tired that I'm not enjoying everything as much and we still have Universal and Disney to do! Today we are going to the Kennedy Space center Busy busy. Anyway, any advice would be super helpful!

Charmaine

[Tweakster]

Hi there Charmaine, what we did in the UK when we were on holidays was do a 3 nap day and do a super late bedtime...have you tried this?  So 2 normal naps and then a short CN and bedtime like 9ish.  The CN can be in the car or whatever when you are out and about.

Or you could try cutting the nap like you were doing back home but I think it might take the rest of your time to see the full effects.

Enjoy the rest of your time!  I love Florida!!!

[Chariel]

Thanks Wendy!

I hadn't considered doing that so it is an awesome idea!  We will try that out the next few days It is awesome here in Florida, enjoying missing a little bit of the snow and cold at home.

Thanks again!

Charmaine