so i have been reading healthy sleep habits, happy child. i am in chapter two now. it talks about how around the three to four month mark you can start inforcing a schedule of some sort. first of all, do you guys think i put tyler to bed too late? could that be why he wakes up in the middle of the night when he is not even really hungry yet? he goes to bed around 9 to 10:30pm...any time between those times. what time do you think he should start going to bed? he takes naps in the evenings...sometimes long ones...he is tired a lot at night. but we just keep him up or let him catnap until later so he can eat later and then hopefully sleep for a good bit. but that isn't working and in the book it talks about how kids go to bed to late these days. so maybe i should be putting him to bed around 7:30 or 8? he pretty much has morning naps down...he sleeps from around 9 or 10 and sleeps anywhere from 1 to 2 hours. and in the afternoons he sleeps a few naps...but i am not worried aobut naps yet...like you guys have said..he is too young to inforce a definate schedule..but the night thing...just because he wakes up for no reason really, should i try putting him to bed earlier? i don't mind getting up to feed him at night, but whe he just wakes up to wake up that is no fun.
posted by Maria Purviance at
11:02 AM
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I'd say start putting him to bed earlier. The book says that when they start showing signs that they are tired, then they have been kept up too long (yawning and eye rubbing, crankiness...). And don't go from putting him down at 10:30 to putting him down at 7 all in 24 hours. Try maybe an hour at a time, and if that doesn't work try a half an hour at a time. Glad you're liking book:)
Tyler is only 3 mths old. This is normal behavior for him. I suggest not picking him up when he wakes up unless he starts to cry. Let him play/look around.
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