The past month or so, it takes anywhere from 1-2 hours to get my DS to sleep.
We co-sleep (DH is in the spare bedroom these days) and I always have to nurse him to sleep and wait for him to fall asleep before I leave. I wait for his tired signals (yawning, eye rubbing, fussiness) and I get him into bed to nurse usually within 10 min by the time his diaper is changed, etc. The past 2-3 months though, he seems to get his second wind and will end up wanting to play instead of sleep after nursing. He'll roll back and forth, and just the other day, he learned how to get on all fours, so now he does that, and he just started rocking somewhat tonight. He finally fell asleep after 90 min!
It's hard for me to stay in bed that long when it's the only time I have to get things done, as I also have to lay down with him to get him to nap during the day.
He also usually wakes crying every 1-2 hours, which he has done for months.
It doesn't matter whether he has had good naps during the day or not. Also, he will whimper while he's trying to fall asleep, like he's struggling to fall asleep.
Not sure what to do or whether it has to do anything with him reaching milestones like crawling, which he just started a month ago, and getting up on all fours, though that doesn't explain all these months of him doing it.
If I can see that he is not going to sleep after nursing, should I take him out of bed and let him play in the living room, so that he doesn't associate the bed with play? He only has a miniature stuffed toy bear and pacifier he chews on in bed. The only thing is that I never know when he's going to tucker out, and sometimes he just rolls over and falls asleep, seemingly wide awake one minute and asleep the next, so if I take him out of bed, that won't happen. On the other hand, maybe more crawling around will tire him out more quickly too.
We co-sleep (DH is in the spare bedroom these days) and I always have to nurse him to sleep and wait for him to fall asleep before I leave. I wait for his tired signals (yawning, eye rubbing, fussiness) and I get him into bed to nurse usually within 10 min by the time his diaper is changed, etc. The past 2-3 months though, he seems to get his second wind and will end up wanting to play instead of sleep after nursing. He'll roll back and forth, and just the other day, he learned how to get on all fours, so now he does that, and he just started rocking somewhat tonight. He finally fell asleep after 90 min!
It's hard for me to stay in bed that long when it's the only time I have to get things done, as I also have to lay down with him to get him to nap during the day.
He also usually wakes crying every 1-2 hours, which he has done for months.
It doesn't matter whether he has had good naps during the day or not. Also, he will whimper while he's trying to fall asleep, like he's struggling to fall asleep.
Not sure what to do or whether it has to do anything with him reaching milestones like crawling, which he just started a month ago, and getting up on all fours, though that doesn't explain all these months of him doing it.
If I can see that he is not going to sleep after nursing, should I take him out of bed and let him play in the living room, so that he doesn't associate the bed with play? He only has a miniature stuffed toy bear and pacifier he chews on in bed. The only thing is that I never know when he's going to tucker out, and sometimes he just rolls over and falls asleep, seemingly wide awake one minute and asleep the next, so if I take him out of bed, that won't happen. On the other hand, maybe more crawling around will tire him out more quickly too.
