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wont go to sleep til midnight!

Kelly - posted on 03/04/2009 ( 3 moms have responded )

HELP! well my son has been sleeping through the night since he was about 5 months old. every once in a while he will wake up for a bottle around 5 but thats it. he used to go to bed anywhere from 8 - 9 and would wake up at 7.. but all of the sudden the past week he wont go to bed until midnight but still wakes up at 7! i try really hard to get him to sleep early but he just wont do it. his max awake time during the day is 3 hours and if he goes past that he gets overly tired and extremely fussy! what do i do? should i tough it out and take away some nap times? this new bed time of his leaves me absolutely NO time to myself or time with my fiance. im a stay at home mom so i really need the time to myself and im starting to go a little stir crazy!

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No - posted on 03/11/2009

if you pick him up you've hd it. leave him - he's ok. he'll eventually learn to get himself to sleep and it wont take as long as you might think. good luck.

Katherine - posted on 03/06/2009

Let him nap during the day at least twice. Don't let him sleep after 4:00pm. Make sure he's real active during the day... then try him at 7. Try reading to him and rocking him, do things that make him tired. Then try to put him to bed. If he doesn't go to sleep you should just put him in the crib and let him cry. My daughter did that. She wouldn't go to sleep at night and it was a marathon during the day. I had no time for myself. So one night around 7PM and a full day of no time to myself, I decided enough was enough. I read to her, nursed her and when she wouldn't fall asleep (after about 30-45 minutes) I just laid her in the crib. She cried herself crazy for 15 minutes, then fell asleep! She was sound asleep for hoursssssssssss! Sometimes babies just need to work it out on their own. My daughter is 9 months old now, once in a while she is like that. I just let her cry it out in the crib for a while. I try not to listen because I hate when she cries, but it is worth it because in the end she is happier with a full nights sleep.

Melissa - posted on 03/06/2009

My daughter did the same thing for a little while. I worked really hard to get her on a schedule & it has helped a lot. She gets up at 8 every morning & she gets dressed & then has breakfast at 8:30. She palys until about 10:30 & then goes down for a nap. She was sleeping for about 2 hrs but I have noticed for the past week that she doesn't need as long of a morning nap. I will probably start keeping her up until about 11:30 & then she will sleep for an hour. She has lunch at 12:30 & then we play until 2:30. SHe sleeps until 4:30 & then has a snack. She has dinner at 7:00. We have story time at 7:30 & then bathtime. She gets a bottle & then is in bed at 8:30. It took a few weeks to get a good schedule that works for all of us (I also have a 3 1/2 yr old son).I hope this helps.