obhain - Bummer........ Are you going to try to get back to the later bedtimes, or, since you have to work anyways, are you just going to stick to that routine?
this is weekday routine, or def thurs, fri as he is so tired at the end of the week from preschool there is no other option.
DH and I were going out last night so we let miss Emma sleep 3 hrs in the afternoon (have to wake her at 1.5 to get her to do 12 overnight from 8-8 usually...but she'll do 12 just later if we let her sleep more).
So DH took Ozzie for a car nap around 3pm. He slept 3.30 to 4.30!!!
And the childminder put him to bed at 10.30 last night and Emma after 9pm. We got back at midnight and I thought I'd be guaranteed 8 hrs sleep but just before 7 Oscar was up playing with his cars. I went to him and told him he was nowhere near his 10 hrs, that he had to try holidaytime sleep. He did a poop, screamed about me being BORING, I told him I'd be back to check him in 10 mins and he fell asleep again around 7.40am. Its 9.10am and he's still asleep. Emma up since 8.40 so I can't complain.
Oscar's sleep is going to look like this for a while I think. 10 hrs not enough for him from Mon to Sun so he makes up for it with a Sat/Sun nap and nights and mornings are later Sun to Weds, gradually creeping earlier and earlier as the week goes on. When I think of it, most of us SHOULD sleep like this anyway, even as adults....so in a way its good.
Just having to THINK about his sleep when he's nearly 5 is really silly though...though I am glad I do and that I now understand the best I can expect from him because it is 10/10.5 hours. No more, no less.
One thing I did when I started on the track to "fix" things for us was make sure to give Oscar a snack JUST before bed. He is a brekkie person, LOVES his, and his stomach in those old days when I'd try and AP him back to sleep at 4.45am was GROWLING for food. So he has main meal at home around 5pm and then a bowl of cheerios or cornflakes or some toast and honey around 7/8pm.
Another thing is that Oscar's sleep has also (maybe coincidentially) improved with him eating little and very often. In his first preschool he was a non-eater. HE'd have a decent breakfast and then would spend the day from 8am to 3pm almost eating NOTHING....maybe a tiny fromage frais and lots of water. Thy never forced the issue with him and then he'd be ravenous on the commute home and would eat the entire contents of his lunchbox and not be hungry for main meal at home.
He now has brekkie at home, 2nd brekkie 10am, soup and main course (but small portions) 12 noon, snack at 2.30 and snack at 4pm, (all at preschool, all kids eat the same thing so its very easy to get him to eat) and then we eat around 5-5.30 depending on commute and cheerios at 7/8pm.
as for nappies, leaky ones NEVER woke Oscar till 5am ish but maybe that was when he was doing that big pee in his sleep and waking as a result.
S x
