My Son??????????

Question

My son is almost 11 months and has been sleeping through the night since he was 3 weeks.. For the last week he's been waking up earlier and earlier in the morning.. This morning he was up at 5am... Anyone have any suggestions??
He goes to sleep at 8-8:30pm every night. I can't just leave him in his crib in the morning because he stands up and i'm nervous that he's going to fall back and hit his head on his crib.. HELP

He doesn't take many naps anymore.. He'll take 1 in the morning around 9-11ish.. If runs around all day so he must be tired..

Answer 1

Push the bedtime up 30min-1 hour. There is no good way to get them to sleep longer...my son went through a very similar phase(he even cut a nap at 10 months like yours). I moved my son's bedtime up b/c I figured if he wasn't going to sleep during the day, then he needed it at night. He now(20months now) goes down around 7pm and sleeps all night until 6:30-7am. You could just let him be for a few mornings and see if he'll settle himself after an hour or so. My son, for a while, would wake early, play for a bit then drift off for an hour or so. Don't worry about him hitting his head on the crib....my son falls and hits his head daily and he's totally fine...so farl LOL! Seriously, they usually fall straight on their bottoms instead of back so it'll be a small chance that he's going to fall and seriously injure himself. Good luck!

Answer 2

Your son's biological clock wakes him up at the time and it doesn't matter what time you put him to sleep that would be the time he will wake up. My daughter wakes up between 6-8 am and it didn't matter what time she goes to bed or if she's teething and she gets up at 2 and doesn't fall back asleep until 5 she still gets up between 6-8. You should try having a tv monitor to monitor what he would do if you let him be in his crib. If he just lays there or if he bounces in his crib then he's fine, let him entertain himself, leave some toys for him. Or a musical that is attached to his crib so that he can press the button on his own. If he decides to play tarzan and climb the crib then you need to get up with him...that's the time his days starts. My girlfriends two sons get up at 6 am everyday, one is 2 and the other is 11 months. Good Luck.

Answer 3

They sleep less at night when they are overtired and are not sleeping enough during the day. Also, my son is 19 months and has always slept through the night too but sometimes babies just go through little phases where they wake up early a few days in a row or something. Don't worry about it. But DO try to figure out maybe why. Perhaps there is too much light in his room, etc....

Answer 4

Children go through phases all the time and they change frequently too. So it could just be for a week or two. If you are worried about him falling then put blankets and pillows in his cot and also some toys because this could take his mind off shouting you and giving you a rest. With my daughter i just make sure her room is very dark at night because light makes her wake up earlier and i leave a drink in her cot and that usually sends her back off to sleep once she finds her drink. Hope that helps shazxxxx

Answer 5

If he can pull himself up he probably won't fall down again. My daughter sleeps that much everyday. She's the same age but I wake up at 5:30 to go to work so it's not a big deal. Do you think you could cut his naps short during the day? I know at least one day a week my daughter will be extra active (she won't take naps with the sitter) and will go to sleep around 6:30 and sleep til 5:30. Have you tried tiring him out during the day? Crawling around etc.

Answer 6

I think it might be in the air. My daughter is same age and all and I am having the same dramas. Tonight I could not even get her to sleep either. What the hell are we going to do.
The last couple of mornings I have been making her a bottle and giving it to her in her cot and she goes back to sleep. I stay with her though while she has it and she is out to it again within 10mins and sleeps for another 3 hrs. Give it a go.
Email me if you want to talk.
Good luck.

Answer 7

He may be overtired from not taking naps. Kids still need naps at age 1 and should still be taking 2. Closer to age 2 they usually go down to 1 nap and should continue napping at least 1 time a day through age 5.

Overtired, leads to bad sleep. I know it sounds wierd, you'd think if the baby was tired, they'd sleep, but daytime sleep really affects night time sleep.

Answer 8

Mine would do this. I found that getting up and giving them a quick snack to hold them to breakfast would settle them back down again.

At this age they are growing so much, and even if they go to bed with a full tummy they wake up starving in the morning.

Try keeping the lights down and have something like a sippee or bottle with water or juice or formula ready before you go to bed. That way you just get up and hand it to him and lay back down.

The crib thing -- All three girls learned by the time they were one to flip them selves over the rail. (Thanks goodness I was there when they each tried this.) I felt it safer to go to a toddler bed -- it's so close to the floor they don't have far to fall and the railing keeps them from falling out, but still allows then to get in and out safely.

The trick with the toddler bed is keeping your child safe while you are still asleep and he is awake. A moniter helps. A safety gate on the lower half of their door helps with some kids (Mine figured out how to climb over.)

For one child I ended up putting a small pallette down on the floor in my room -- Then told her she could only lay there if she was sick or got up earlier than I did. As long as she was quiet, with a book or soft toy I could keep an eye on her and rest at the same time. She knew if she wasn't quiet, she had to go to her room.

Answer 9

YOU GUYS ARE VERY LUCKY.I HAVE A DAUGHTER SHE Ä°S 2.5 YEARS OLD AND NEVER EVER HAS SHE SLEPT AT THOSE TIMES THAT YOU HAVE MENTIONED. WHEN SHE SLEEPS AT 23:30 MY HUSBAND AND I LOOK AT EACH OTHER AND SAY '' oow good she slept early tonight'' BUT OFCOURSE SHE DOESNT WAKE UP UNTIL 08:30 OR 09:00 AM.

FOR YOUR PROBLEM I CAN RECOMMAND YOU TO FEED HIM WELL BEFORE BEDTIME AND MAKE HIM SLEEP AROUND 9:30 PM ( I GUESS HE SLEEPS 9 HOURS ) SO HE WÄ°LL WAKE UP AROUND 6:30 OR 7:00 IN THE MORNING.

Answer 10

my son is 7 months and does this to sometimes he wont go to bed at 830 at night and will go to bed at 1045 and still wake up at 5 and im paranoid cause im afraid he will fall over cause hes been standing in his crib for over a month. so far i havent found a solution ive kept him up later. that just means less sleep for me so i just get up at 5 let him play for an hour then i feed him and he falls asleep. i guess its just they have some energy to get rid of. i know its a pain in the A.S.S but try and have some patients.i know how it feels though, my son use to sleep 830-830a.m i use to jump out of bed to make ure he was ok cause he slept for so long. and i miss it but now i just deal with it