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Waking early and not going back to sleep
Can anyone help me please, my son is 17 months old and is waking between 4am and 5.30am and won't go back to sleep.
We live in a 1 bedroom flat, so he shares our bedroom. I've tried a drink. I've tried his music, but he is full of energy, so one of us has to get up with him (As we both work full time) he runs around and plays, then about 7.30 he is tried and falls asleep. Or he falls asleep in the car on the way to the Nursery and is hard to wake up. He has 2 hours sleep in the day and again he is hard to wake up from his afternoon sleep.
We put him to bed at 7.30pm, but we have tried later 8pm or 8.30 but nothing has work. My husband works shifts, so we can't even put him in the lounge or we sleep in the lounge.
Please help as don't know what to do.
Thanks
Maz:\(
We live in a 1 bedroom flat, so he shares our bedroom. I've tried a drink. I've tried his music, but he is full of energy, so one of us has to get up with him (As we both work full time) he runs around and plays, then about 7.30 he is tried and falls asleep. Or he falls asleep in the car on the way to the Nursery and is hard to wake up. He has 2 hours sleep in the day and again he is hard to wake up from his afternoon sleep.
We put him to bed at 7.30pm, but we have tried later 8pm or 8.30 but nothing has work. My husband works shifts, so we can't even put him in the lounge or we sleep in the lounge.
Please help as don't know what to do.
Thanks
Maz:\(
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I think you will have to put his bed time later, or tell the Nursery his nap is to be no more than an hour, sounds like you just need to get him back in routine, which may involve depriving him sleep elsewhere, I know its tiring to keep them up all night when you want some time to wind down yourself but I think it may be the only way for now. also tell him its bed time and to go back to sleep, believe it or not I used to do this to my son when he was very young and it actually worked alot of the time.
We had Problems with our daughter continually waking thoughout the night, we did 2 things 1st put her in her own bed and secondly cut her daytime nap, now shes allowed a nap befor 12 no longer than an hour, if she hasnt gone to sleep befor 12 no nap, dont get me wrong she does get niggly but she has started sleeping better now if she does wake we stick her straight in with us and she falls straight back to sleep.
I know it sounds hard but things may not improve until he goes into a room of his own.
Nikki
Ill be thinkin ov ya at 5.30 ive got the same problem...
Will give other ladies suggestions a go...
How is it goin?
SWxx
Another idea that seemed to work for a lot of people was to half wake him even earlier than he normally wakes, say 3.30. The idea is that this disrupts the routine he has got into and he then sleeps later. You might want to try it when you are off work the next day just in case it goes horribly wrong though!!!!