Day Sleeps

[michelle21]

Just wondering if your bubs sleep well during the day and how long they sleep for?
My DS (10wks) has just decided he no longer wants to sleep during the day! He is having an hour nap in the morning then 2 short like half hour naps, one about lunch and one late afternoon! Thats it! Is that normal? He wakes up so early and isnt due for a feed for ages so then he is really grizzly :banghead:
I try putting him back to bed after he wakes up but he never goes back and me trying just seems to make him more grumpy.
He does sleep through the night though (8pm-630am) so im wondering if maybe he is getting all the sleep he needs already?
What do you think??

[*Chels*]

Hiya
My son was never a great sleeper-still really isnt:rolleyes:
I went to a daystay clinic when I was at my wits end.It didnt work at all.
Then I just took on the attitude of-if he wants to sleep he will!I stopped timing his sleeps,and was just happy if he had a sleep at all.
Now hes older hes pretty good at having naps.I just dont stress about it.If you try to force them to sleep,it makes them grumpy,then you get grumpy and everyones grumpy LOL
Babies change their sleep patterns all the time so dont stress too much:)

[*~alegna~*]

Hi Michelle....I agree with Chels, Oh bubbas:) aren't that far apart & DS does similar thing.

I have found now that he will fall asleep on his play mat & stay asleep longer rather than me put him to bed through the day...does that make sense? Maybe there detinguish there cots with Night? Dunno maybe try that though, put him somewhere else for day naps..Hope that helps

[Dylansmama]

You could try resettling him when he wakes up after that 30 minute nap and see if he will go back to sleep. Sometimes I've let bub just lie there if he wakes up after half and hour and he does go back to sleep after a while. Otherwise, if you're going to child health you could ask one of the ladies there. They really helped me out when I had some questions about sleeping, etc.
And if all that fails I'd have to agree with Chels. I used to stress about sleep but it's so true, their sleep patterns do change quite a bit in the first few months and it's fantastic that your baby is already sleeping through the night. It wasn't until bub was about four months old that he started sleeping more solidly through the night and I think we nearly had a party when that happened!

[michelle21]

Hi thanks for your replys.
When he wakes up I usually leave him there for a bit to see if he will go back to sleep but he just continues to cry untill I pick him up.
Ive tried letting him sleep in a few different places and have noticed he will sleep a bit longer if he sleeps on his tummy on a blanket on the floor :fingerscrossed: he keeps that up!
He still wont fall asleep on his own though...even if I can tell he is so tired he will just cry untill I rock/pat his to sleep and then i lay him down.
Think I should just stop worrying hey...if he sleeps he sleeps.....but I just dont want him to be grizzly all day because hes tired... kids hey :D

[Dylansmama]

Yeah it's all fun...the only other thing I could suggest is when Dylan was a newborn and he was unsettled I'd go for a walk with him in the pram and he'd usually fall asleep there. Plus it was good for me too just to get out of the house for a while and it would help de-stress me - at least for a while, anyway!
And as you say if he sleeps he sleeps - it can be a hard attitude to take but it's actually true.
Enjoy your bub - the pic looks very cute! It's amazing how fast the time goes and before you know it they're nearly six months old!

[A&Omummy]

Hi:wave: Well my bub is the same. Some days she will have really long sleeps others hardly any at all. I have tryed for so long to get her into a routine but I don't stress anymore. I usually leave her if she wakes after 1/2 hr but most of the time she wont go back to sleep. She sleeps though the night but:yelclap: Has always been pretty good at night. Usually goes down anywhere between 5 and 6:30pm. Depends on how much sleep she gets during the day. And sleeps till 5:30 6 am. The napping thing can be a real pain but I know. It's hard cause it mucks up the feeds aswell. Anyway good luck it should get better. I found it got better as she got older. But you have your good days and then the bad ones where you are pulling your hair out:mad:

[Dylansmama]

I agree totally with Di - this morning was very frustrating as bub just wouldn't have a nap, only had 20 minutes but he ended up by snoozing later, all you can do is take the good with the bad :) Guess it's all a learning experience, being a first-time Mum and all!

[cosmic]

Michelle, my baby is the same. She wouldn't sleep at all when she was tiny so I carried her in a sling all day every day until she was about 13 weeks old (she would sleep 3hours or more in the sling). Then I started putting her into her cot for day naps and she would only sleep 20 minutes but gradually they got longer and longer.

Now she is 16 weeks and her 'normal' sleep time is about 40minutes, but she does occasionally sleep for an hour or even 1.5 or 2hrs. I love those times!! But if she does have a longer sleep, she normally drops one of the shorter ones so her total sleep time during the day is still probably only around 4hrs? A couple of weeks ago it was more like 2 hours so that is an improvement for us!! And she still doesn't sleep through the night by the way, so you have a bonus there. :)

If Jayden wakes up under an hour, I would definitely pick him up and try to pat/rock him back to sleep. It is totally normal that he still wants to be picked up (my DD does and she is almost 4mths). I can sometimes get DD to go back for another 30 minutes when I do that, though not always.

Also keep in mind that their sleep cycles change at about 3mths and they go into their deep sleep faster, so you might find over the next few weeks he just naturally starts sleeping longer. In the meantime, try the resettling, but as long as he is not really overtired and cranky, I don't think you need to worry.