Tonight, I ended up laying with our co-sleeping son for 90 min before he finally conked out. He fully nursed and was almost asleep after 30 min, but then he got a burst of energy and was all over the bed and cruising along the headboard and all over me with a full tank of gas.
His one nap ended up only being an hour today (usually it's 2 hrs), so I thought for sure he would go to bed earlier.
We have planned activities for him 3 times a week (swim lessons and music class), which tends to mess up his nap times on those days, pushing it later.
He is just never consistent in how long after waking from a nap he ends up going to bed though.
Sometimes it's 5 hrs after waking from his nap, sometimes it's after 7 hr +.
We look for his tired signs of yawning, rubbing his eyes, but I get him into bed, nurse him and he ends up wanting to play in bed after fully nursing.
I try to keep the room dark, with only a nightlight on, but tonight, the sun had not quite set by the time he seemed to be ready for bed. About half way through his playing, I decided to turn out the night light and only had the ambient light of the alarm clock, but he still played for another 30 min in the dark.
We attempt to wear him out before bedtime thinking that all the physical activity of walking behind his push toy back and forth and crawling all around will tire him out. I've also tried to dim the lights and start the bedtime process with some quiet time just before bed, but that hasn't worked either, though I haven't tried that much.
We don't do baths before bed because he loves to play and that just gets him all excited or upset that he has to come out of the water.
Anyone have any tips to get some more consistency? Also, I thought that yawning and eye rubbing were the magic signals of tiredness. That seems to not quite work in our case.
His one nap ended up only being an hour today (usually it's 2 hrs), so I thought for sure he would go to bed earlier.
We have planned activities for him 3 times a week (swim lessons and music class), which tends to mess up his nap times on those days, pushing it later.
He is just never consistent in how long after waking from a nap he ends up going to bed though.
Sometimes it's 5 hrs after waking from his nap, sometimes it's after 7 hr +.
We look for his tired signs of yawning, rubbing his eyes, but I get him into bed, nurse him and he ends up wanting to play in bed after fully nursing.
I try to keep the room dark, with only a nightlight on, but tonight, the sun had not quite set by the time he seemed to be ready for bed. About half way through his playing, I decided to turn out the night light and only had the ambient light of the alarm clock, but he still played for another 30 min in the dark.
We attempt to wear him out before bedtime thinking that all the physical activity of walking behind his push toy back and forth and crawling all around will tire him out. I've also tried to dim the lights and start the bedtime process with some quiet time just before bed, but that hasn't worked either, though I haven't tried that much.
We don't do baths before bed because he loves to play and that just gets him all excited or upset that he has to come out of the water.
Anyone have any tips to get some more consistency? Also, I thought that yawning and eye rubbing were the magic signals of tiredness. That seems to not quite work in our case.
