Hi,
So this post may be a bit long, but here's the short end of it: Last night, DS went to bed a little earlier than normal because he didn't nap, he woke up at 1 and did not go back to sleep until 8:30 this morning....! at which point he only slept 45 min.
He's done something like this every night this week : he's up at least from 12:30 is until 3, but the past few nights it's been until 4 or 5 in the morning. NOTHING I do gets him to sleep, bringing him to bed, getting into his bed, milk etc...I'm 20 wks pregnant and not loving this.
We've always had a very strong bedtime routine and that has worked well for us, he has really bad food allergies and while he slept in a crib near us for much of his infantdom (he would fall asleep by himself and sleep 12 hours straight - we never sleep trained or anything like that) we/I started co sleeping w/him around 9 months and then he's been in his own bed (a full size on the floor) that I would join him in when/if he woke up. Wakes up used to be infrequent. Then co sleeping took a turn for the worst and he demanded I sleep w/my left arm wrapped around him all night. I could not move my arm - I'm pregnant and something had to change especially because he would go to bed before I was going to bed (usually goes to bed between 7-8). At this point we decided to transition him to a toddler bed and this greatly improved his falling asleep abilities - DH can actually put him to sleep now. We've been working on the toddler bed for over a month, and this week I've just put the bed back in his room so I can at least lie down when he's up 1/2 the night.
How and why can I get him to not stay up 1/2 night?
So this post may be a bit long, but here's the short end of it: Last night, DS went to bed a little earlier than normal because he didn't nap, he woke up at 1 and did not go back to sleep until 8:30 this morning....! at which point he only slept 45 min.
He's done something like this every night this week : he's up at least from 12:30 is until 3, but the past few nights it's been until 4 or 5 in the morning. NOTHING I do gets him to sleep, bringing him to bed, getting into his bed, milk etc...I'm 20 wks pregnant and not loving this.
We've always had a very strong bedtime routine and that has worked well for us, he has really bad food allergies and while he slept in a crib near us for much of his infantdom (he would fall asleep by himself and sleep 12 hours straight - we never sleep trained or anything like that) we/I started co sleeping w/him around 9 months and then he's been in his own bed (a full size on the floor) that I would join him in when/if he woke up. Wakes up used to be infrequent. Then co sleeping took a turn for the worst and he demanded I sleep w/my left arm wrapped around him all night. I could not move my arm - I'm pregnant and something had to change especially because he would go to bed before I was going to bed (usually goes to bed between 7-8). At this point we decided to transition him to a toddler bed and this greatly improved his falling asleep abilities - DH can actually put him to sleep now. We've been working on the toddler bed for over a month, and this week I've just put the bed back in his room so I can at least lie down when he's up 1/2 the night.
How and why can I get him to not stay up 1/2 night?
