help with sleep

[Littletreasures]

Hey every body

Well im new here and i need advice i have an 10 month old son who has recently started going to Homecare, and it seems that since he has started going there we have alot of trouble trying to get him to sleep. he arches hes back and starts kicking and screaming. The day care mum says that he goes to sleep straight away for her. what is going on he used to go to sleep straight away all the time for me!! Help im going insane,

[mysonroger]

is he sleeping long enough at homecare.........maybe he's overtired by the time he gets home. my two don't sleep anywhere near the same amount of time that they do at home. maybe you could ask them exactly what they do to settle him, if they have started something that is new to him. even the environment that he is in while at homecare in the room where he sleeps (ie radio on, air con, etc??)

[Littletreasures]

he will sleep for like 1 and half hours at daycare and like 20 mins at home and he is only there one day a week and the daycare mum said that she just takes him in to his cot puts him down gives him his teddy and dummy then walks away, and he falls asleep, and i do the same thing and i get kicking and screaming for hours if i were to let him go that long.

[mysonroger]

has he reached a milestone....like teething, or something like that. is he having some sort of separation anxiety maybe. my dd has that sometimes, wakes up in the middle of the night and just seems to want me there. my friend is suffering very badly with this and her DD at the moment all through the night.....
hang on , prison break is on. will be back..............

[Littletreasures]

well he already has 6 teeth so its not that

[Chickadee]

Has the timing of his day sleep(s) changed at all, or is it different at daycare than at home? It can take a little while for bubs to adapt to a different schedule at home and at care.

I found that daycare was putting DD (2.5 yr) down to sleep straight after her lunch, whereas when she was home I was waiting an hour or so after. Her daycare routine obviously suited her better, I was struggling to get her to nap. So I have adjusted her day to match daycare routine better.

[Littletreasures]

well the daycare mum said that she puts him down after breakfast which is what i do and after lunch which is also what i do, maybe its just diffrent surroundings his room at daycare is a little bit darker then at home but then i still have problems at night

[Chickadee]

Are there other children in the same room at daycare? Some kids "follow the herd" so to speak and if other children are laying quietly then that might be why he is too when he's there.

If that's not it then I'm out of ideas and would guess that you need to accept that it will take more work at home & look at new strategies for settling him :(

[karalee]

hey lisa

do you think he might be getting himself ready to just have one big sleep in the middle of the day?
Maybe ihe s just not ready to go back to sleep after morning tea, maybe you could try and leae him up for an extra hour one day, and see if he sleeps better and longer? and just watch his mood.
:thumbsup:

kaz

[Littletreasures]

thats a good idea i might try that one tomorrow cause it took me an hour and half to get him to have a 1 hour sleep today

[lovethekids]

Hi there, I have a 16month old daughter who loves to rise and shine VERY EARLY! She can wake up from anytime from 4.30am onwards. She was a good sleeper before she turned one, then it all went down hill. I find that I have to put her back to bed at 9am where she will sleep for about an hour maybe hour and a half and then about an hour or so again after lunch. It's driving me nuts??? I have a nine year old and I never went through this with him. I'm hoping that's its a faze that she's going through, 'cause I know she can sleep in as she did on a couple of occassions. One time she slept till 7am! I had to keep going in and sticking my finger under her nose..... Are there any other Mothers out there doing the same thing at that ungodly hour like I am? I would feel heaps better if I knew that someone else is going through the same thing as me.
Thanks heaps
Alison:wave: