Hi All - my little dude is 5 months and ever since daylight savings his sleep has been a mess. He's been waking up every 2 hours and is more or less up at 4:30 AM. After this, he will generally fall asleep for another hour in the morning in the ergo and then at daycare he is taking 3 or 4 40-45 min naps. When I pick him up at 4;30 pm he is exhausted and sometimes. naps again. Maybe I should push back then nap and put him to bed around 6/6:30? I should add that we co-sleep. Thoughts?
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Hi. I'm so sorry you are having trouble with your little guys sleep. My baby is only 3 months so I'm trying to figure this out too. She also has had a similarly early wake up since daylight savings. But as for waking up in the night, I find that she isn't actuality waking up herself even though she wakes me up. She does some kind of noise, I look at the clock and then somehow I am now able to go back to sleep once I see that her eyes are actually closed. She sleeps right beside my bed. So is it possible your boy isn't actually waking up? Can you just check to make sure he is okay and then let both of you go back to sleeep?
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You may need to sleep train. Or, sleeping next you might be making him wake up. LO2 is an awesome sleeper, but if I co-sleep with her she knows I'm close by and wants to eat constantly.
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Both my kids have done well with an early bedtime (6:30).
My baby is 5 months and has recently started waking up at 5:30, which is an hour early and not related to dst. DS 1 did the same thing around 5 months too. You may want to sleep train, but some of it is likely also a phase.
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My LO has always had crap sleep and we've never gotten to good.
But, fwiw, when sleep/naps got really off schedule it has worked (as much as anything has ever "worked") to stretch the last nap interval into an early bedtime as a reset. We went back to our more typical schedule after one or two early nights to catch up on sleep
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Daylight savings is when your kid was 4 months old so this just sounds like the 4 month regression. Some kids snap out of it after a few weeks and some folks have to sleep train, but I'm not sure it's DST. Either way early bedtimes are fine. Sleep begets sleep!
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Thanks everyone for the advice. I'm hoping he'll snap out of it. @AGold I am thinking that he may not actually be waking up and def need to pay attention a bit more. I tend to default to what requires the least amount of waking up from me and in so doing I think I respond too quickly and unnecessarily. @Brownepiano I'm also thinking he would do better with an early bedtime.
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