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Katetam
20 yrs ago
I am just wondering if my baby 's sleeping pattern is normal. He sleeps at 9:00pm every night. He's like an alarm clock. Never late, never early, on the dot at 9:00pm, he will wail and scream and cry.... we know he's sleepy and drinks his last milk feed before falling fast asleep.
He sleeps until 1:00am, will cry, and need to be held for 10 minutes, and will sleep again without any feeding.
Then he wakes up at 6:00am sharp every morning.
I sleep very late each night b/c of work related things, and just some time to do my own things after the two kids sleep. However, I am very sleep deprived b/c my baby wakes up so early in the morning.
Just wondering if any other moms experience this? How can I make him sleep longer? He's not sleeping a lot during the day time either. just naps of 30 minutes, like 2 times-3 times a day.
I gave him a nickname, "rooster" b/c he is like an alarm clock no matter where we are, out for dinner, in Japan, at home... he will follow this pattern to the dot.
Thanks for any information or suggestion.
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Kimmi
20 yrs ago
My baby wakes between 4-30-5am then my 4 year year old wakes at 6am. I now have got used to going to bed as early as possible in the evening. I think most babies and children wake early.
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HK2
20 yrs ago
Hi, Katetam
We also have a 9-month old, baby girl.
She generally sleeps at 8 or 8:30 pm and on good days, will wake up close to 7. On bad days like today, it's closer to 6 am! On the 6 am mornings, we bring her into bed with us and sometimes, she does manage to fall back to sleep for another 45 mins. Not a good idea, i know, but it helps us get through the rest of the day. It hasn't become a habit with her, luckily.
She naps about 30 mins. in the am, 1-1.5 hrs in the pm and another catnap of about 30 mins. late in the afternoon. If she doesn't nap well in the day, i know my night's going to be hard. So i am a bit fanatical about her naps.
Recently, we have taken to letting her cry it out if she wakes in the middle of the night (we used to go in and pat her back to sleep - pedia advised not to). So far, she's managed to fall back to sleep. I think this had also helped her sleep longer into the morning - she's able to soothe herself.
Also, if i put her to bed at 9, she'll wake up earlier than if we put her to bed between 8-8:30. Don't know why.
Don't think i've helped but just sharing since our kids aour roughly same age. . .
Good luck.
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swmbo
20 yrs ago
Some babies are very attuned to day and night, so once they wake and see it's light they're raring to go. Our kids are like that too.
With our first, we tried the Baby Whisperer's approach. Just very gently stir your baby, but DON'T wake them, an hour or so before they normally wake (so around 5 or 5.30am). Apparently the stirring disrupts their sleep pattern and they then sleep through their normal waking. You need to do this for a few mornings I can't recall how many but usually they say 3-7 days for a change. This worked with our oldest.
Similar thing with the 1am waking, just stir gently around 12 or 12.30am.
It doesn't work for everyone but might be worth a try.
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stir? what exactly does this mean (in this context)?
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The Baby Whisperer calls it "Wake to sleep". Stir means to just bring out of the deep sleep. Like if you woke up for a few seconds because you heard something, but then went straight back to sleep without registering what had happened.
I agree with others that you could try putting baby to sleep earlier, around 7.30. You could still have a late feed, by just picking baby up out of cot still asleep and sticking breast or a bottle right in their mouth, then gently putting them back down to sleep when they stop feeding.
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swmbo
20 yrs ago
Stir is, for example, when you roll over in your sleep. You're not really awake but not fully asleep. We used to look for a flutter of our son's eyelids or a movement in his body - something to show that his sleep had been disturbed. Sometimes his eyes would also open but then he'd pretty much go straight back to sleep.
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Thanks everybody for the replies. I guess I just have to accept that's the way it's going to be for awhile! It's just my elder one always slept until 9:00am... and went to bed at 11:00pm..... so I always got enough sleep.
Now this second baby is just totally different. In many ways, it's good, b/c he's so predictable and goes by total routine. My helper loves it. Now my WONDERFUL helper comes into our room to get him at 6:00am when he wakes up, so I get 1 hour extra sleep before having to take my elder one to kindergarten. At least the little one now sleeps mostly through the night... even the 1:00am thing is only 3 times a week at most.
Hope it's just a phase... I am definitely trying to sleep before 1:30am.
Thanks again.
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