Need some advice please!!!
Me and my dd stay up until 1 or 2 am and we sleep in until noon. Does anyone else do this?
And I am wanting a change. I would love to wake up at 7am have a nap at noon and her go to bed around 8. I am working on her being able to sleep in the bed without me. Up until a few weeks ago she has been held for every.single.nap. and she is almost 1. We do NOT do cio or anything btw. Should I do a sudden change like waking up at 7am one morning or would it be best to gradually wake up 30 minutes earlier every day?
Thanks for all your help!!!
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OMG, i would pass out! I don't have any advice, but wanted to send hugs... that sounds like a hard situation!
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we're like this...first son also all his life (excepting the during school year for years he was in a public school)
but when those times did come for a change, we did what you were thinking, an hour earlier each day for a few days :)
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My LC (who runs a weekly BF group here, where sleep -- and time-changes -- come up frequently), recommends changing sleeping times in 15 minute increments.
For us, this is too small a window (given that bedtime can last for 2 hours if he's fighting it, and "wake-up time" is so variable for him), but I agree with the smaller steps.
Let's face it -- when your body's used to sleeping till noon, getting up 5 hours early is gonna leave you feeling like a wreck. Both you & the little one will essentially have jet-lag for a while that way.
I'd go with an alarm clock and the smaller increments.
My son wouldn't nap except "in arms" until he was around one, also. Around then, we got rid of our old couch (which my husband hated) and replaced it with a futon-couch. I tried laying down with my son on this, and discovered that unlike anywhere else, I could get up once he was asleep, and it was "OK". I think the deep backwards slant helped -- he still felt "held". Very quickly, he learned to put himself to nap on the couch. I think it was a combination of the new furniture and his age that made this possible.
Here's wishing you luck and a better schedule soon!
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My dd and I used to have the same schedule...
When we started getting more involved in activities during the day (around 10 months old, or so) we needed to start getting up earlier. We just did it by waking up an hour earlier in the morning and shooting for an earlier bed time. Eventually we got to where we are now -- going to bed between 7:30-8:30 and getting up around 7:30. It did take a while, and it probably could have been faster if I'd been more persistant (and consistent ;))
Also, dd had to be in arms to nap until about 5 months ago (21 months old now), but she just grew out of it on her own. It happens!
Good luck!
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We made the drastic change. DS had the same schedule (and consequently, so did I) of staying up til 1 or 2 or somtimes later. Finally, I was at my wits end and one morning woke him up at 8 a.m. This resulted in him going to sleep at 9 or so with two naps. Worked like a charm for us and it was consistent! The incremental change just would never have worked for him...or maybe it was me. I was seriously about to lose it and becoming seriously resentful.
He's got something else going on right now, teething or a milestone of some sort, so now he's waking up at 5 a.m. and it's thrown everything else off. We are going to work this weekend at sort of regulating it, mostly for my sanity. I'm pregnant and can.not.do the midnight bedtime. HTH.
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And I am wanting a change. I would love to wake up at 7am have a nap at noon and her go to bed around 8. I am working on her being able to sleep in the bed without me. Up until a few weeks ago she has been held for every.single.nap. and she is almost 1. We do NOT do cio or anything btw. Should I do a sudden change like waking up at 7am one morning or would it be best to gradually wake up 30 minutes earlier every day?
Thanks for all your help!!!
^_^:
OMG, i would pass out! I don't have any advice, but wanted to send hugs... that sounds like a hard situation!
^_^:
we're like this...first son also all his life (excepting the during school year for years he was in a public school)
but when those times did come for a change, we did what you were thinking, an hour earlier each day for a few days :)
^_^:
My LC (who runs a weekly BF group here, where sleep -- and time-changes -- come up frequently), recommends changing sleeping times in 15 minute increments.
For us, this is too small a window (given that bedtime can last for 2 hours if he's fighting it, and "wake-up time" is so variable for him), but I agree with the smaller steps.
Let's face it -- when your body's used to sleeping till noon, getting up 5 hours early is gonna leave you feeling like a wreck. Both you & the little one will essentially have jet-lag for a while that way.
I'd go with an alarm clock and the smaller increments.
My son wouldn't nap except "in arms" until he was around one, also. Around then, we got rid of our old couch (which my husband hated) and replaced it with a futon-couch. I tried laying down with my son on this, and discovered that unlike anywhere else, I could get up once he was asleep, and it was "OK". I think the deep backwards slant helped -- he still felt "held". Very quickly, he learned to put himself to nap on the couch. I think it was a combination of the new furniture and his age that made this possible.
Here's wishing you luck and a better schedule soon!
^_^:
My dd and I used to have the same schedule...
When we started getting more involved in activities during the day (around 10 months old, or so) we needed to start getting up earlier. We just did it by waking up an hour earlier in the morning and shooting for an earlier bed time. Eventually we got to where we are now -- going to bed between 7:30-8:30 and getting up around 7:30. It did take a while, and it probably could have been faster if I'd been more persistant (and consistent ;))
Also, dd had to be in arms to nap until about 5 months ago (21 months old now), but she just grew out of it on her own. It happens!
Good luck!
^_^:
We made the drastic change. DS had the same schedule (and consequently, so did I) of staying up til 1 or 2 or somtimes later. Finally, I was at my wits end and one morning woke him up at 8 a.m. This resulted in him going to sleep at 9 or so with two naps. Worked like a charm for us and it was consistent! The incremental change just would never have worked for him...or maybe it was me. I was seriously about to lose it and becoming seriously resentful.
He's got something else going on right now, teething or a milestone of some sort, so now he's waking up at 5 a.m. and it's thrown everything else off. We are going to work this weekend at sort of regulating it, mostly for my sanity. I'm pregnant and can.not.do the midnight bedtime. HTH.
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