My 18 month old has begun to wake up at 4:30 am daily. She goes to sleep at 6:30 pm, and sleeps through the night ( more or less). By 5:00 pm, she is showing all the signs of being tired; rubbing eyes, pulling at ears, cuddling with her special blanket.
Her bedtime has been around 6:30pm for the past 10 months.
She has pretty much finished with her morning nap, and is only sleeping for an hour and half in the afternoon. Needless to say, she is becoming quite cranky as this is not enough sleep for her.
What can I do to get her to sleep past 4:30 am as well as have a longer nap time in the afternoon? She is a babyschool 3x a week, from 9:00 am -2:30 pm. They do a great job of getting the kids to nap from 12:30ish - 2:00, but again, my child is still not getting a good, long sleep.
2007-02-01 06:27:52 · 19 answers · asked by yummymummy 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
If a longer nap is needed, you may want to consider changing your schedule with the baby school. My daughter now 22 months sleeps 12 hours at night then is up for 5 hours then down for 2 hours and up again another 5. We have bedtime at 8pm, we are home and done with the older kids activities by then and we have had dinner, Most sleeping problems in children are from schedules not being kept and if they are not feeling well. Look and see what has changed recently in your daily schedule and see if adjusting that adjusts the sleep pattern. Good luck with this, One way to keep her up later is to gradually ( 15 mins at a time) have her go to sleep later and later...Mon & Tue 6:45, Wed & Thrs 7:00 ect...also the same goes for getting up, have her play in bed 15 mins longer she will either learn to play quietly in bed until she is truley ready to get up or she will start going to bed later and getting up later.
2007-02-01 09:15:33 · answer #1 · answered by Tawni B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you might want to consider making her bed time later then 630 so that she will sleep longer in the morning but some kids just dont work that way. My son for example defies everything really......he never slept more then 45 mins at a time til he was 18 months old, he never slept a full nite through until he was almost four and even now that hes just turned seven his body is like a natural clock the first hint of change in the sky hes up no matter what time you put him to bed. I tried putting him the backroom of my basement suite where the sunlight wouldnt hit til about eight or nine in the morning during the summer no luck.
The best thing you can try is to push her bedtime back in evening and maybe cut out her nap during the day
2007-02-01 14:35:21 · answer #2 · answered by wing23ca 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If she sleeps from 6:30-4:30 that is plenty of sleep. Try keeping her up a little later at night. OR let her take a little nap when she gets home from school.
She is just going through changes. My son is 18 mths also and is going through sleep pattern changes right now...he used to go to bed at 8:30 but last 2 wks he has been fighting to stay up approx 10:30, but still wakes up appox 7:30 a.m.
GOOD POINT: I just took my son to the doctor and he has an ear infection...I had no idea..!!!!! this may have caused the change in schedule
2007-02-01 16:31:14 · answer #3 · answered by whatelsewhatever 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She IS getting enough sleep at night.. thats 10 hours. 6:30 is just simply too early to put her to bed and its unrealistic for you to expect her to sleep later than 4:30-5:00. She probbaly still needs a short nap in the morning to energize her for the afternoon and an hour and a half nap in the afternoon is appropriate. Simply, the answer is to just put her to bed later. Good Luck
2007-02-01 17:45:25 · answer #4 · answered by Jenn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you can try to keep her up past 6:30 and break her from that habit. I've learned with my son that his sleep schedule changes from time to time. She's probably tired from her baby school. That sounds like a good idea, never heard of baby school. I'm a stay at home mom so i just try and go with it within reason. He's gotten to where he doesn't want to go to bed till 10 or 11 and that's too late for a 17 month old.
2007-02-01 17:34:12 · answer #5 · answered by cinnycinda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
6:30 is a little early to be going to bed for the night, we got our daughter into the routine of going to bed between 9:30-11pm and she gets up around 9:30am, she takes one nap during the day around 1 or 2 pm. It works real good
2007-02-01 15:56:33 · answer #6 · answered by Jennifer H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would ask them to keep her up and put her down when you get home at 2:30. If she sleeps until 5:00 you can have dinner and put her down again at 8:00. She will get used to this after about a week.
2007-02-01 15:17:27 · answer #7 · answered by mom of twins 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason why she's waking up is b/c she got a full load of sleep. That's too early.
My son is 18 months. We got him used to having dinner with us at 7pm. After dinner and joking around we give a bath. After bathtime we read a book and snuggle for a little. He goes down b/w 8-8:30pm and sleeps through the night.
2007-02-01 14:52:53 · answer #8 · answered by joy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
6:30 pm is too early for her to be going to bed. Try to keep her up at least 15 minutes longer each day until she's going to bed at the desired time. My daughter has the opposite problem and wants to go to bed too late, so her pediatrician said to put her to bed 15 minutes earlier each night to help her adjust.
If she's pulling on her ears, maybe she has an ear infection and why she's going to sleep so early. Maybe you should have her checked out just to make sure.
2007-02-01 15:57:23 · answer #9 · answered by Melissa B 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard of a 'babyschool' - anyway, do NOT allow her naps (other than at babyschool) and then put her to bed at 8:00.
You're just putting her to sleep way too early.
2007-02-01 16:11:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋