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Offline Joandmitch

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Sleepless nights
« on: August 01, 2010, 18:31:47 pm »
My Son is 14 months old and still does not sleep very well. He is not in a routine cos i find it so hard to stick to bed times with him and he will not go down in his cot.

He will have days where he will not have an afternoon sleep and you can see he is so tired but he will be awake till 8pm and then there are days where he will have 1hr sleep in the afternoon and will be up till 9-10pm!!

He never has a full decent nights sleep they are always restless and we are all so tired and cant do it any longer.

Can someone please help me  :'(
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« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2010, 18:57:23 pm »
it sounds like he is very OT and you realy need to get him on a good solid routine to help get him through this.Him being so restless and refusing to nap and also being awake till all hours will be because of him being Overtired too.What time does he wake up in the morning? lets go from there.at 14 months my DD was doing:
6am
10am-10.30 nap (i woke here to get an afternoon nap in)
1.30-3 or 3.30
7/7.7.30 bedtime.

or you could do the longer nap in the morning and the shorter nap in the afternoon.so:
6am
10.30-12
4-4.30
7/7.30 bedtime


He might well be getting ready to do just one long nap at mid day but while he is so OT i would stick to 2 for now.Is he able to go to sleep independantly?
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Re: Sleepless nights
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2010, 19:12:42 pm »
Hi and welcome to the boards  :)

Just wanted to send some hugs (((()))) it's so hard when they are not sleeping.  You will get some great advice here though!

I agree with Lucy, your lo sounds very overtired.  The pattern seems to be with kids this age that if they take good naps in the day at a regular(ish) time, then they sleep more at night.  Often 'common sense' (or my Mother  ::) :P) tries to say otherwise - that to get them to sleep through the night we need to give them less daytime sleep and put them to bed later - but it actually seems to be the opposite!  So working on getting that regular nap will definately pay off in terms of night time sleep, as your lo will be more relaxed and less 'wired' and so will be able to sleep better. 

Have you read any of the babywhisperer books?  They really helped me get my head round how I could help my lo sleep well, and it would be worth getting hold of one if you haven't already  :-*

xx
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