need help again!!!! waking at 4am..........

[lin7604]

i am so confused again to what is happening with my 28 month old!  some of you know we were having issues with night wakes and early wakings a little while back, well for the last 2 weeks i think, he has been sleeping thought but naps and early wakings are all over the place.   for example mon and tues at daycare he napped 2 full hours each, he was up each day at 6:10 PERFECT!!! he was sleeping by 8:30 each night. Then once again he has been waking before 6am, and today at 4:50!!!! no luck in getting him back to sleep at all!    HIs naps went back to normal the last 3 dayas at daycare of 1hr 15 min. so i put him to bed earlier to compensate but it seemed like that was backfiring with earlier wakings....... last night he was so tired around 7pm, i got him ready for bed eariler and he didn't want books or anything, just to cuddle.  He fell asleep in 2 min by 7:50 but then woke at 4:50???

What do you think is happening again?  do you think he may be neededing less sleep time in general even though he's on the low end already???  i don't know what to do b/c i believe he needs at least 11-11.5 hrs total but it seems so frequent lately to be around the 10 mark in total.....    I figured yesterday with a short nap and early bed he would of slept till 6am and be in his 11 hr mark, but once again it backfired and was only a total of 10?? should i of put him to bed even earlier??? i so don't know what to do... help....

[*Natasha*]

Some kids need a little less sleep than others. At this age you would be aiming for 11.5-13hrs in total.
So i would limit the nap to 1.5hrs no longer with bedtime at 7.30/8pm with a hope of 6ish wakeup.

[lin7604]

ya that is what he was getting only 11.5 MAX!!!! it seemed most nights it was 10-11 total in 24hrs.  I knew he was on the low end of sleep as he always has been but i thought 10 hrs was too low still for this age.... yesterday was a good day/night he slept 2hrs at daycare as he was up at 4:50am..... and then bed was 8pm adn he was sleeping for 8:30 and woke at 5:45am... so not bad but i still would like him to get to 6-6:15am if i could.

I was thinking that putting him to nap a bit later might help too but again daycare limits that.  nap is 12:30 and most days he sleeping pretty quickly being up so early but if he doesn't go on his bed till 12:30 and sleeping after that it might help him wake up a bit later and make it to a later 8-8:30pm bedtime and then wake at 6-6:15... i don't know but i will see if they can help me oput on this one adn see what happens next week.