My six month old son sleeps until about 7 am, that is until recently. He is now getting up at 6 am. He is still going to bed at the same time (7 pm). Should I try holding his bed time off until 8 pm? It is just that by 7 he seems exhausted and I dont think it would fair to keep up any longer. On the other hand 6 am is just so early and he has been crabby during the day which is not like him at all. Any advice would help. Thanks.
I wouldn't worry about it, and just think we're changing the time this sunday anyway so he'll be back to sleeping till 7 again! lol!
S.
I have 3 children, my oldest is 5 and my youngest is 7months. They ALL went thru sleep phases. They still do. Our rule always is in bed at 7:00 until the time change and then its 8:00. It has never changed. Yet sometimes one will be going thru a phase where they wake up at odd hours. Our baby right now is sleeping 7:00 to 9:00am!! But about a month ago she was waking up at 7:30. My 3 year old went thru a phase where she was getting up at 3:30 in the morning and asking us to put a moive on for her! I think they just go thru it. As long as we stayed consistant with bedtime, they usually got back into their patterns after a while. Don't worry. He'll get back into it.
I went through this with my son when he was about the same age. He would always be in bed by 7pm and wouldn't wake until 7am the next morning. When he hit 6 months, things started going a little wild. He would still go to bed at 7pm but would wake anywhere from 5.30am-7.30am. He was never a good sleeper during the day so I started putting him to bed a little earlier and gradually, he startted sleeping longer. Seems that he was overtired as he wasn't getting enough zzz's so just giving him an extra 1/2 hour at night seemed to do the trick, not always and not instantly but it worked. Look at your sons sleeping during the day. If he sleeps well then is it getting lighter in his room, outside noise, illness?? Maybe this is just a phase and he will go back to waking at normal time. My son even now still goes through stages of waking up early but now that he is 17 months old, if he wakes before 7am I leave him in bed to entertain himself otherwise he will start waking up early just so he can play!!
Same thing happened with my daughter who is now 10 months, unfortunately she still wakes at 5:30-6 daily, we have tried later bed times, but still she would wake up early and just end up more tired the next day which lead to longer naps and totally throwing off the schedule. It may just be a phase for your child. I also think they need less sleep as they get older. My daughter pretty much does 10 hours at night and that is it. Luckily day light savings is around the corner maybe that will help! Good luck!
All babies go through this, esp. if they are teething. If I recall, my dauhter's sleep patterns were a little screwy around 4,6,9 months. Usually it coincides with a new milestone (teeth coming in, crawling,babbling, walking etc.) It's normal and the worst thing to do would be to hold off on the bed time, so you are right to not want to. It's actually shown that the later a child goes to sleep, the worse they sleep, so keep him on the 7pm schdule. In a few days, or a couple of weeks, he'll be back to himself again.
Hi Aleisha,
Hey I don't have any advice other than wow I think that is great, and I'm jealous!!!! My son is 2 and half and he just started sleeping through the night!!!! He still only sleeps 7 hours straight tops maybe 8 if he doesnt take a nap, which by the way only lasts 1 hour maybe 90 mins.......but if I make him stay up he is cranky in the evening but other that that he doesn't seem affected but the lack of sleep, he just to sleep only 4 hours through the night with 2 1 hour naps during the day I was exhausted!!!!!!! He was on a schedule cause I work full-time so go figure, so I think you are doing somthing right for him to sleep all night, bravo
Cathy
Hi Aleisha. I am jealous that your little one sleeps so long. My six month goes to sleep for the night around 9 or 10 and gets up at 7-8. Getting up this early started about a month ago, she was sleeping until 9 and was my husbands alarm clock :) My only suggestion would be to alter his nap time. Maybe make it later if possible and then he might stay up later and get up later. However, I admit I tried this and it didn't make a difference. She is set at getting up to eat at that time and sometimes she goes back to sleep and other days she doesn't. Good Luck!
I say count your lucky stars! My 8 1/2 month old daughter won't go to sleep until 9 or 10 at night and has just started sleeping through the night about a week ago, and whose to say that will last. I am just going to enjoy while I can. And when it is time for her to go to sleep she fights it. So trying to get her sleep earlier is almost impossible at this point. So be thankful that you have gotten the sleep that you have and hope that this is just a phase and will be back to normal here real soon. It might just be the sun coming out earlier, it might be teeth, it can be so many things that I just hope that you get your routine back soon. Good Luck!
I have a 13 month old and am encountering the same problem. My pediatrician told me it's because the sun is coming up earlier. :) Unfortunately not a whole lot you can do other than try to retrain or give him toys to see if he'll go back to sleep, is what i was told. But if you come up with anything, let me know too. :)
the baby is 6 months old.... adjust YOUR schedule....and get used to it.... it only gets better!!! and seriously, hes only 1 hour off what he used to be....1 hour is nothing compared to what yer gonna go thru in the next 60 years or so.... good luck
