EASY for an 11hour night sleeper

[Spandanna]

Hi

So our naps are still a bit up and down, some days we get 2 great 1.5 hour naps other days we have 3 x 30 min naps and then there are various other combinations of 1.5 and 0.5hr naps BUT ever since I broke the 30 min naps cycle (2 months of never getting anything longer than 30 mins) he's started waking at around 5.45/6am (after a 7pm bedtime). I'm starting to think he's just an 11 hour sleeper, but I'm not sure what my routine should look like for a 13 hour day.

Does anyone have any advice? Or any ideas of how to try to get DS to sleep the extra hour? (Not that I think he necessarily needs it because he's usually happy enough when he wakes)

thanks

[Spandanna]

Oh I forgot to say DS is 7.5 months old

[*Jo*]

are you able to put up how your day went just so we can see what we are dealing with here? thanks

[Spandanna]

Thanks for replying

Every day seems to be different this last week and over this time he's not been very well (chesty cough...thought he may have been teething last week) but here are some example days from this last week

Wednesday went like this
6.30 wake up
nap 9.30-11am
nap 1.30pm - 3pm (had been swimming and was shattered so fell asleep in car and stayed asleep whenm i transferred him to cot!)
bed 6.30pm

(then woke at 5.45!)

(can't remember other days in between but then...

Sunday:
5.50 wake up
8.40 - 10.20 nap 1
1.20 - 1.50 nap 2
4.30 - 4.50 nap 3 (I woke him up after 20 mins he doesn't often have a catnap anymore)
7.15 alseep

Today:
Awake 5.50am
9.00-9.30 nap 1

12.40 -2.40 on and off nap 2 (woke after 30 mins, I left him, he went back to sleep 10 mins later, woke again 10 mins after that. Gave him a dummy slept for another 20 mins woke screaming. I went in and he fell asleep in my arms and I lay down with him and he slept again until 2.40
7pm bed


I should add here that just over a week ago he was doing long naps without needing me to extend them. I think him needing the dummy or a cuddle is down to him being under the weather (although his general mood hasn't been too bad today)

I know we're a bit all over the place but these 11 hour nights happen evern when he has 2 good 1.5 hour naps