Longer stints but earlier wake up ?
My LO has been sleeping longer stints 3-4 hours rather than 2-3 hours these last 2 weeks but has been waking up for the day 3.30am-4.30am and will stay awake 2 hours before his first nap.i have tried feeding,changing him cuddling, ignoring him but he just wants to play. Please send advise. He goes to bed between 6pm-7.30pm
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Some babies are not 12 hour sleepers, my LO definitely isn’t so we have had to adjust and stick to a bedtime that will help this! My boy is 5 months old and for the last 6 weeks, bedtime has been between 7:30-8pm. He used to wake once around 4am for a feed and then go back down until 7ish but now sleeps through until 6-6:30am. He does between 10-11 hours a night, if he goes to bed later he wakes at the same time and is ratty the next day and if he goes to bed earlier I’ve found he wakes more at night or if he sleeps through, he wakes earlier. So last night he was so tired and fell asleep at 7:20pm and even that 10 mins or so earlier than usual changed our night. He woke at 3am and for about half an hour was just moving around in his next to me, scratching the sides and talking and it wasn’t until then that he started moaning so I popped him in bed with us to get him back to sleep before moving him back🤣 I’m sure he woke again at 5am but he wasn’t moaning so just left him to it….
My little one started doing this so we made her bed time later now it is 9:30-10:00pm and she wakes now between 6:30-7:00am. We don’t go to bed very early in my house either so for us it doesn’t change much for her to also sleep later. Of course as she gets older we’ll make it earlier because I’ll be going back to work etc but for now this works for us :)
The average night sleep for a baby before dropping naps is 10-11 hours.
If you are putting them to bed at 6:30 that would explain why they are waking that early.
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This post shows you average sleep needs for people at different stages of life. The sleep coach has lots of useful advice.
You need to work out your baby’s individual sleep needs by tracking how much they sleep in 24 hours over a week and then take an average. Everyone’s sleep needs are individual to them so following someone else’s schedule is likely to not work. There is a post on that coach’s Instagram page that explains how to work it out 🥰
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Longer stints but earlier wake up ?
My LO has been sleeping longer stints 3-4 hours rather than 2-3 hours these last 2 weeks but has been waking up for the day 3.30am-4.30am and will stay awake 2 hours before his first nap.i have tried feeding,changing him cuddling, ignoring him but he just wants to play. Please send advise. He goes to bed between 6pm-7.30pm
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