Hellobee Boards

My son sleeps better with a later bedtime, he goes against every textbook suggestion to get children to sleep longer.

I did try moving the bedtime earlier, but it resulted in night wakings.

We've always done better with an earlier bedtime. Everytime we have tried a later bedtime in hopes that LO will sleep in, he always wakes up at the same time or earlier, so an earlier bedtime means more overnight sleep which is ideal.

We have never had problems with him fighting bedtime though...he's always gone to sleep when we put him down (sleepy cues or not). We use wake times to figure out when to put him to bed depending on when the last nap ends,

Our now 4 yr old, if you put him to bed early, wakes up later. For instance last night went to bed at 7:30pm and woke up at 8am. Three nights ago we were at a friends house late. He went to bed at 10pm and woke up at 6am. This is how it always goes and then he is a terror.

I am trying to get the baby into a sleep schedule. I thought we had one, had been working for 3 weeks, but of course as soon as I posted it on hb how happy I was, the crap has hit the fan!

He has been falling asleep around 8pm, waking up at 9pm and then stays up until 11pm. On top of that he is getting up every 2 hours again!!! Going to try to put him to bed tonight at 7pm.