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Great Sleeper waking a nights??
« on: November 09, 2008, 02:02:26 am »
Hi,

My son is 20 months old.  He is a great sleeper now, (it was a rough first year of poor napping) but since he turned one he has been a great napper and sleeper at night.  He can self-soothe, goes to bed no problem and goes down for his nap without any problems. . . .until last week.  For the time change I pushed up his bedtime and nap by 10 minutes for a week, it messed him up a bit- his still woke up at the same time in the morning even though he went to bed later, but it all seemed to work itself out.  But now, he is waking up at 5:00ish in the morning and will not go back to sleep.  When he wakes, he is criying but will stop when we come in.  We have done WI/WO to get him back to sleep.  It hasn't been every night, in the past week maybe three times and then today he cried for his nap which he never does.

Here is his schedule:
7:30am- wake up
1:00pm- Nap sometimes doesn't sleep right away, he will look at books and then fall asleep.  So, I am not sure exactly how long he actually sleeps but he is in his room for 2 1/2 hours.  I always make sure he is up by 3:30pm.
Bedtime: 7:30pm

Any suggestions???

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Re: Great Sleeper waking a nights??
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2008, 02:55:34 am »
Hi & welcome to the boards :)

If he's waking up at 5am and NOT going back to sleep, then I would bring the nap back to 11am (the latest), let him sleep around 2hrs and then do bed no later than 5.5hrs A time. So have him in bed for the night around 6-6.30pm. Once he's caught up on some sleep then you can look at pushing his day forward.

Also, could he be teething at all? Crying with us for nap could has either meant overtiredness or teething!

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Re: Great Sleeper waking a nights??
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2008, 21:18:13 pm »
Hi,
thanks for replying so quicky!  I am not sure if I need to such a drastic change??  Last night he did fine, when down great and was reading in his crib at 7:30am when I went to get him, not sure when he woke up but it was after 7:00am.  Maybe I should wait a bit before I change things??  Today he did resist going for a nap but eventually did (within 10minutes) not sure if it is just a almost two, testing the limits thing.  When do they shorten there afternoon nap??  I just so love that nice long nap!!! 
I don't thing he is teething, I tried to look at the back of his mouth and I couldn't see anything.  He already has his eye-teeth, he isn't really a bad teether.

Thanks so much for the tip