Hi!!! I hope things have gotten better at your household!! My son was sleeping about 1-1.25 hours a few days in a row there, but then stretched out his naps again to about 2 hours. Neither one made a difference in his sleep. We haven't had anymore night wakings like the 445 waking, just waking up between 530 and 6. But I noticed something that does work for him that I stumbled upon by accident...a 45 min nap in the morning and 10-15 min nap in the late afternoon. We drove last weekend to go visit family that is about an hour away and my son fell asleep around 10 am on the way there. When he woke up at almost 11 I knew I would have to give him a cat nap in the afternoon so he could make it to bedtime, and he slept unitl 630 the next day!!! I don't remember the last time he's slept past 6. He seemed really sleepy the next day too around the same time, 10-1030 so I let him sleep again for just a bit, and then gave him a short CN in the afternoon. I did some trial and error throughout the week and gave him a short CN in the morning (by accident, he fell asleep on the way to the store), so then I gave him a 30 min CN nap in the mid afternoon. Every time he had two naps, he has slept in later the next day. He is falling asleep later though. I put him down around 7, but then he will just talk to himself until close to 8. But he will wake up around 630 or 7 the next day in a much better mood than he does when he wakes up between 530 and 6. So yesterday he woke up at 7 and I tried giving him just one nap, but he only slept 1 hour (1230-130-and he woke up really cranky, so I knew he didn't get enough sleep) and I was planning on having him in bed by 630. He was sooooo wound up before bedtime, I knew he was OT. Maybe I should've tried winding him down better. I just had no clue what to do and thought nursing him would help. He probably didn't fall asleep until 730. And he woke up around 545 today. No night wakings though.
I do have his gro clock up and working now though. I had it set for 615, but he's been sleeping past it, so last night I set it to 630 and he woke up at 545 haha. I tried explaining to him that he can't scream bloody murder at the top of his lungs at 545 am because he'll wake everyone up and that his clock was still blue so we couldn't leave until the clock turned yellow. So I quickly changed the wake up time on the clock for one min later so it would go off and he could see the yellow screen. And then just told him that it's yellow like the sun which means we can wake up now!! I think i'll be giving him two naps today since he woke up so early.
Do you know why the two naps helps so much?? I feel that he can make it to nap time ok, but he doesn't make it to bedtime without getting OT with just one nap. But when I give him 2 naps, he'll usually only take a 45 min nap (probably an UT nap since it's earlier in the day) but I feel like that little nap in the afternoon helps him get to bedtime. I don't know why his body could handle one nap when he was younger but he doesn't handle it well now.
My husband and I moved across the US (literally from west coast to east coast) back in the beginning of September, and I know he didn't get good sleep while traveling and then transitioning at our in laws. Do you think he's still recovering from that???
