Is it wrong to hang on to my 10 month ripened up for longer than 6 hours, even if he is sleepy to educate him how to sleep?
My husband and I are really tired of waking up 2 or more times a night for my 10 month old. We enjoy not gotten a full nights rest since we had him and we are tired. We want to teach him how to stay up longer through out the morning. But he wants to sleep. I feel so bad. What do you judge I should do?
I agree that to keep him up for 6 hours is way too long. Perhaps try to shorten his nap a bit if he is sleeping longer than 1 hour each time. I know it is unpopular but my 6 mo old has a similar agenda to Erica's baby and he has slept through the night for nearly 2 months now. I think keeping babies on a rough schedule is angelic for them since they know what to expect. Then when you have a bedtime/bathtime routine they know that it is time for the long sleep.
It is also important to feed your babe-in-arms enough during the day so that you know he is not waking up out of hunger. Have you figure out the reason for his wake ups? Does he sleep in complete gloominess? Has he gotten out of his covers? Is he hungry? If he wakes at the same times during the night, probability are he is waking out of habit. If so, you should evaluate what you are doing when he wakes up. Do you turn the lights on/ sermon to him, etc? If you need to tend to him do it quietly, without adjectives him and try not to turn the lights on. If he doesn't cry--you needn't even go to him. That way, he will learn to trickle back asleep on his own. Source(s): 6 mo old baby on a rough routine
Keeping him up will most likely be counter-productive. If he's tired and doesn't sleep, he will end up OVER tired, and at that point, will be almost impossible to get to sleep and will sleep vastly restlessly. If he's waking twice a night now, if he's over tired, he'll plausible wake 3 or 4 times (or perhaps more). It's very impressive that he gets adequate sleep, so if he's tired, I say tolerate him sleep.
Oh, and many 10 month olds are not sleeping through the night yet; it's exceptionally common.
6 hours is a lot for a bubs, but I understand where you are coming from. How long are his nap during the day? Maybe you can shorten them, but still enable him to have 2 nap per day
my son is 14 months weak and wakes up once (sometimes twice) each night. He also have only just started staying up for about 6 hours during the morning (usually after his nap into the night before bed time, and thats if he have an EARLY nap).
IF you keep your baby up, he'll get over tired and crankier. and probably sleep worse.
I wouldn't try to keep him awake but I might experiment with limiting how long he nap. Maybe just don't be hush hush in the evening and if he wants to forty winks then that's great but have his door open and be loud in the house.
Also- one of my twins still wakes up crying at night and she is 25 months hoary, almost 26 months old. She can at least tell us what's wrong and we can give a hand her out.
I also brought her to our bed for awhile after we moved our bed out of their room. One of the best ways to teach a baby to sleep at night is to co-sleep any in the bed or with your bed in their room. They hold a model, you know? They wake up and see you sleeping as opposed to waking up alone and seeing you awake coming within.
It's a different concept but I believe in it. One of my twins would wake up and need to return with a pacifier multiple times a night consistently until she was a year old. I have to sleep beside her, with her in her crib as a sidecar, to avoid being up and out of bed adjectives night long. lol
Her twin sister was out cold all darkness long from 4 months up. My son is almost 6 months old and nurses a lot at night.
It is a myth that keeping your child awake during the day will help them sleep better during the night within fact over-tired children sleep more fitfully than ones that have a regular nap. I do sympathize beside you though. My son is 14.5 months old and VERY rarely sleeps all darkness.
Answers: We tried delaying nap times/shortening nap times/changing siesta times from 3 (he's also naps 3 times a day) to 1 or 2 as we were trying to follow the same principle you nominated above - that if you tucker them out they'll sleep through the night.
Didn't work for us - all it did was create an extremely overtired and cranky boy. We in truth found it harder to get him down to sleep and he woke up more frequently during the night than if we keep his rest times on their normal schedule.
He still wakes up at dark - at 12 months old. It's not every night now, with the sole purpose at couple of nights a week. We just grin and bear it. We tried contolled crying/save our sleep/night lights/dummies etc. Fact is, he's never slept through the darkness (unlike some babies we know).
The fact that he's gone from waking up 3 -4 times a night, to immediately only waking up a couple of nights a week (and no more than twice if he does rouse up) means that it's something he's growing out of as he gets older. Within a couple of months we know he'll sleep through. He's other been one to do things in his own time and his own way. Yep...stubborn resembling his dad.
At the daycare I used to intern at, they had the kids (between 3weeks and 11months) arrive at 6AM, and later went down for naps at 11am and 4pm. Worked nicely, especially for the elder ones.
It is a challenge to get a baby on a diary! If you can figure out why your son is waking up, that might be a good start. Is he hungry, thirsty, self-conscious for some other reason? He will eventually grow out of this phase no matter what you do. Good luck!
How is that going to teach him how to sleep longer at night?? All you are doing is creating a cranky miserable little boy, and that isn't objective at all.
Im sorry to nouns cruel but. welcome to motherhood. your baby is merely 10 months old! he's gonna wake up and he needs to transport naps. depriving him of sleep wont help anyone. why not decide next to your husband a night he gets up with kid and a night you do. at least then you know rest is coming.
ps there's lots of us that enjoy no relief, single moms, military wives, etc. try feeling lucky that you have someone to share the burden.
Have you ever read "On Becoming Babywise"? I started this when my son be 6 weeks old because he was waking every 2 hours. It lead you into how to form a schedule and got my baby to sleep through the hours of darkness. It is based on the idea that a baby should get through, then have "wake time", later sleep. I don't know why, but it works. My son's schedule (7 1/2 months) looks like this:
6:15 A.M - Wake / BF
8:00 A.M. - BF plus fruit
Wake time
9:00 A.M. - Nap till 10:00
Wake time
11:00 A.M. - BF plus veggies
12:00 P.M. - Nap till 2:00 P.M.
Wake time
4:00 - 5:00 P.M. - Nap
5:00 P.M. - BF plus veggies
Waketime
7:00 Bedtime routine (bath, massage, book, bottle w/ cereal)
7:45 P.M. - Put down for the hours of darkness
*He occasionally wakes at 5:30 but mostly sleeps till 6:15 A.M.
If you have any more questions around this, you can feel free to e-mail me. I truly hope this weeks. I know from experience what it is like to be tired and need sleep. I also know from experience that letting your little one get overtired by staying up too long only makes it worse. It's better to work to acquire them on a routine. Source(s): My experience
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I agree that to keep him up for 6 hours is way too long. Perhaps try to shorten his nap a bit if he is sleeping longer than 1 hour each time. I know it is unpopular but my 6 mo old has a similar agenda to Erica's baby and he has slept through the night for nearly 2 months now. I think keeping babies on a rough schedule is angelic for them since they know what to expect. Then when you have a bedtime/bathtime routine they know that it is time for the long sleep.
It is also important to feed your babe-in-arms enough during the day so that you know he is not waking up out of hunger. Have you figure out the reason for his wake ups? Does he sleep in complete gloominess? Has he gotten out of his covers? Is he hungry? If he wakes at the same times during the night, probability are he is waking out of habit. If so, you should evaluate what you are doing when he wakes up. Do you turn the lights on/ sermon to him, etc? If you need to tend to him do it quietly, without adjectives him and try not to turn the lights on. If he doesn't cry--you needn't even go to him. That way, he will learn to trickle back asleep on his own. Source(s): 6 mo old baby on a rough routine
Keeping him up will most likely be counter-productive. If he's tired and doesn't sleep, he will end up OVER tired, and at that point, will be almost impossible to get to sleep and will sleep vastly restlessly. If he's waking twice a night now, if he's over tired, he'll plausible wake 3 or 4 times (or perhaps more). It's very impressive that he gets adequate sleep, so if he's tired, I say tolerate him sleep.
Oh, and many 10 month olds are not sleeping through the night yet; it's exceptionally common.
6 hours is a lot for a bubs, but I understand where you are coming from. How long are his nap during the day? Maybe you can shorten them, but still enable him to have 2 nap per day
my son is 14 months weak and wakes up once (sometimes twice) each night. He also have only just started staying up for about 6 hours during the morning (usually after his nap into the night before bed time, and thats if he have an EARLY nap).
IF you keep your baby up, he'll get over tired and crankier. and probably sleep worse.
I wouldn't try to keep him awake but I might experiment with limiting how long he nap. Maybe just don't be hush hush in the evening and if he wants to forty winks then that's great but have his door open and be loud in the house.
Also- one of my twins still wakes up crying at night and she is 25 months hoary, almost 26 months old. She can at least tell us what's wrong and we can give a hand her out.
I also brought her to our bed for awhile after we moved our bed out of their room. One of the best ways to teach a baby to sleep at night is to co-sleep any in the bed or with your bed in their room. They hold a model, you know? They wake up and see you sleeping as opposed to waking up alone and seeing you awake coming within.
It's a different concept but I believe in it. One of my twins would wake up and need to return with a pacifier multiple times a night consistently until she was a year old. I have to sleep beside her, with her in her crib as a sidecar, to avoid being up and out of bed adjectives night long. lol
Her twin sister was out cold all darkness long from 4 months up. My son is almost 6 months old and nurses a lot at night.
It is a myth that keeping your child awake during the day will help them sleep better during the night within fact over-tired children sleep more fitfully than ones that have a regular nap. I do sympathize beside you though. My son is 14.5 months old and VERY rarely sleeps all darkness.
Answers: We tried delaying nap times/shortening nap times/changing siesta times from 3 (he's also naps 3 times a day) to 1 or 2 as we were trying to follow the same principle you nominated above - that if you tucker them out they'll sleep through the night.
Didn't work for us - all it did was create an extremely overtired and cranky boy. We in truth found it harder to get him down to sleep and he woke up more frequently during the night than if we keep his rest times on their normal schedule.
He still wakes up at dark - at 12 months old. It's not every night now, with the sole purpose at couple of nights a week. We just grin and bear it. We tried contolled crying/save our sleep/night lights/dummies etc. Fact is, he's never slept through the darkness (unlike some babies we know).
The fact that he's gone from waking up 3 -4 times a night, to immediately only waking up a couple of nights a week (and no more than twice if he does rouse up) means that it's something he's growing out of as he gets older. Within a couple of months we know he'll sleep through. He's other been one to do things in his own time and his own way. Yep...stubborn resembling his dad.
At the daycare I used to intern at, they had the kids (between 3weeks and 11months) arrive at 6AM, and later went down for naps at 11am and 4pm. Worked nicely, especially for the elder ones.
It is a challenge to get a baby on a diary! If you can figure out why your son is waking up, that might be a good start. Is he hungry, thirsty, self-conscious for some other reason? He will eventually grow out of this phase no matter what you do. Good luck!
How is that going to teach him how to sleep longer at night?? All you are doing is creating a cranky miserable little boy, and that isn't objective at all.
Im sorry to nouns cruel but. welcome to motherhood. your baby is merely 10 months old! he's gonna wake up and he needs to transport naps. depriving him of sleep wont help anyone. why not decide next to your husband a night he gets up with kid and a night you do. at least then you know rest is coming.
ps there's lots of us that enjoy no relief, single moms, military wives, etc. try feeling lucky that you have someone to share the burden.
Have you ever read "On Becoming Babywise"? I started this when my son be 6 weeks old because he was waking every 2 hours. It lead you into how to form a schedule and got my baby to sleep through the hours of darkness. It is based on the idea that a baby should get through, then have "wake time", later sleep. I don't know why, but it works. My son's schedule (7 1/2 months) looks like this:
6:15 A.M - Wake / BF
8:00 A.M. - BF plus fruit
Wake time
9:00 A.M. - Nap till 10:00
Wake time
11:00 A.M. - BF plus veggies
12:00 P.M. - Nap till 2:00 P.M.
Wake time
4:00 - 5:00 P.M. - Nap
5:00 P.M. - BF plus veggies
Waketime
7:00 Bedtime routine (bath, massage, book, bottle w/ cereal)
7:45 P.M. - Put down for the hours of darkness
*He occasionally wakes at 5:30 but mostly sleeps till 6:15 A.M.
If you have any more questions around this, you can feel free to e-mail me. I truly hope this weeks. I know from experience what it is like to be tired and need sleep. I also know from experience that letting your little one get overtired by staying up too long only makes it worse. It's better to work to acquire them on a routine. Source(s): My experience
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