Bed times

[Anonymous]

My twins are just 5 months, adjusted age 2 1/2 months. Connor is sleeping completely through the night on a consistent basis!!! He will sleep at least 8 hours. My problem he has been sleeping up to 12 hours…which I love the days that I’m home.

So here’s my dilema…right now I work 3 days a week M-F, but in July I will be going up to 5 days. Connor takes his last bottle anywhere between 9 and 10 and goes right to sleep. In the days that I’m home he will wake anywhere between 7 and 10 am. If he wakes at 7 he eats and goes right back to sleep till about 10. So that works when I’m home.

On workday’s: He was waking between 6 and 6:30 and that was perfect because I would feed him, he’d go back to sleep in his carseat and dad took him to daycare. But now I’m having to wake him up at 6:30 to get him ready for daycare. Yesterday I fed him even though he wasn’t really hungry. He only ate 3 oz where 5-6 is the norm. This morning I didn’t feed him, I just put him in his car seat. He stayed awake but didn’t act like he wanted to eat.

So, should I be trying to move his bedtime earlier? Last night he started rubbing his eyes at 8:30, so I fed him, thought he was going to sleep but instead started in a painful screaming fit (3 nights in a row now) like he has gas. He pooped and was fine. Ate again about 10:30 and went right to sleep. I’m worried that if I move the bedtime earlier 1. he won’t go to sleep, and 2. he won’t stay asleep. I was also concerned that I really should feed him before daycare, thinking, “that’s not fair to her” but I think it’s ok if he eats when he gets there. She said he actually doesn’t usually eat till about 8:30.

As for my daughter, she’s all over the place. She sleeps for atleast 6 hours though, sometimes up to 8, but she seems to be getting tired earlier, last night she went to bed at 8:30, which means she was up at 3 instead of 5:30.

Sorry this was so long!

[Anonymous]

I too worried that if I put Abby to bed earlier that she wouldn’t stay asleep. I, happily, was wrong. Lately I have been putting her to bed between 7:15 and 7:45 and she has been sleeping until at least 7:00 the next morning, even 8:00 over the weekend (I thought I had died and gone to Heaven). We used to try to keep her up later, thinking that the later she stayed up, the later she would sleep. All we wound up with was a very grouchy baby in the evening. One night, it was 8:15 before we got home and she was soooo crabby and it took more effort to get her to bed (crying, not going to sleep). I realized that she was actually overtired so the next night, we tried an earlier bedtime, and success!!

Don’t feel guilty about having your daycare feed him. That is what you pay them for. I finally am getting over the guilt of not feeding Kayla breakfast in the morning but when I have to drag her butt out of bed, she really isn’t hungry yet and tends to eat much better when she gets to daycare (after a 40 minute drive).

Good luck!

Robin

[Anonymous]

Aidan actually moved his bedtime up himself, he was on the 9-10 schedule, but all of the sudden about a month ago he started wanting to go to bed around 7..and he sleeps till 7…then bottle and back to sleep til 8-9 (but this is a child who only naps for like an hour total during the day-lol)

[Anonymous]

I hear you on the napping only about an hour – I think she is having so much fun now, interacting with her sister and other kids at daycare, she doesn’t want to miss out on anything – or maybe she just doesn’t like to nap – just try to figure them out

Robin

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My first was a cat napper..which is more annoying than not napping at all..he’d go to sleep and I’d start doing something then 15-20 mins later he’d be up, Aidan has now become a “car napper” as in he naps in the car if we are out during what is sort of naptime…he’ll sleep til we get where we’re going, wake up when we get there, then sleep on the way home…which is quite annoying because he gets so overtired around 6 and I have to try to keep the poor kid up til 7:30 which is when he goes to bed!!!! (on a different note, my first became a car napper eventually and I had to resort to driving the kid around from the age of about 1-2 to get him to bed at night!!!! seriously hope Aidan doesn’t go down that road, especially with gas prices-lol)

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