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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
A Plea for Help
Many of you know the struggles we've had with Chase and Owen's sleep patterns. Since May they've been waking between the hours of 4:30 and 5:30. When they wake up, they are awake. This has not been pleasant for us. My husband and I (mostly my husband, because he gets up with them 90% of the time) are exhausted. We've tried many different things and can't seem to get them to sleep longer. They are excellent at going to bed-we put them in their cribs and that's that. If anyone out there is a baby sleep expert, or you have had similar experiences, please feel free to leave a comment at the bottom of this post. We would SOOOO appreciate it. Thanks!
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Susie, I think I mentioned to you that you need to make sure that their nap(s) at daycare are limited in length. At their age I feel like they should be down to 1 nap a day (going down sometime around 1 or so and lasting approx 2 hours). I think their avg daily sleep should equal 12-13 hours (would have to check on that... might be as many as 14). What time do they go to bed? If they are napping from 1-3 (let's say) then they should be able to sleep from 8-6 or 8-7 each night...
Hope that helps, Tegan's night-time sleep is somewhat similar, though he will 'sleep' until 6:30 or 7 but is still consistently up a few times a night due to his light sleep and vivid dreams. Last night was the first night of him sleeping ALL night in a few weeks. See you tomorrow :)
Hi Susie. Sorry to hear about the sleep struggles...sleep and I are good friends - without it I am one crazy mommy!
Emma and Anna both went through stages where they got up insanely early. With Emma we got up with her, read to her, did quiet things. She, sadly, still gets up pretty early compared to all those other kids we hear about.
With Anna, we left her in her crib and just decided what time we would go in. There were a string of mornings that we didn't get a lot of sleep (well, Emma can sleep through ANYTHING) but after just a few mornings, she went back to sleep.
For us we realized that if we got up with her, she'd keep needing to be "awake" when she woke up, and once we stopped going in she realized that it wasn't "up time" yet.
I'm not sure that would have worked with Emma - but it did with Anna. One of the most important thigns I learned from Emma to Anna is that every kid is different and there is no magic solution. No easy button. Bummer!
Good luck with the sleep!!
Susie-you know I have read sooooo many sleep books. They almost all have things that I agree with but what I have found for Bennett is the better rested he is during the day, and the earlier he goes down-the better his night time sleep is!
At 23 months he still does 2 naps a day. And goes to bed by 7 sometimes 6:30.
His naps are an hour to hour and a half. Even when he naps till 4 he still goes down at 7. With him and a lot of kids I know-the later we put him down the earlier he is up.
He gets up at 6 sometimes but thats how he has always been and us giving him a later bedtime has only always made him get up earlier. When he wakes up like that we give him 10ish min in his crib and then get him and start our day-that way he'll go down for his morning nap around 10.
I have tried holding him off to 1 nap but he gets too overtired and then only naps 20ish minutes! So despite his age, 2 naps and an early bedtime is what works for him!
I guess I would try an early bedtime-since you can control that as daycare during the week might not be as restful or consistent in the napping area?
Oh man-kids and their sleep! Hope something works Susie!
Oh Susie! What a bummer still! I don't know what else to say....except I am sorry you guys are still being sleep deprived!
(I can't remember....Are they in the same room? Maybe try separating them?)
You may just have to go back to taking a few very long horrible string of mornings letting them fuss until a reasonable hour if you have already made their bedtime later in the evening.
I agree with another commenter, each kid is so very different, and all the books in the world just don't provide all the answers for each kid, thus we are all stuck playing the Guessing Game with our kids for the rest of our lives (but such a fun "game" it is!).
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