no sleep til brooklyn
2006-05-28 - 4:09 p.m.

I'm not sure why I expect my baby to have that kind of normalcy. His father and I are both total night owls. Getting him to bed at 7 means he's going down when he's no where near tired and it takes FOREVER and causes much distress. He'll nap for 15 minutes and wake up screaming, over and over until about 10 and then he finally goes to sleep -- for a couple of hours and then it's back to the hourly thing.

We're on day 5 of this now and I see no change, except that maybe it's getting a little harder everyday to get him to sleep. How do you get a kid who's just not at all tired to sleep? They say not to take the nap times away, so he naps from 8am-9am, noon-1:30, and 3:30-4:30. He's supposedly supposed to take 3 naps between an hour and a half and 2 hours long, and then supposed to sleep 10-11 hours at night. If I followed that strictly, basically for more than half the time he's awake in a day, we'd be fighting to get him to sleep. I don't get it. It's not pleasant for anyone and it's not improving his sleep at night anyway. I think I'm going to can it and just let him have his 10pm bedtime and hope this hourly thing is a teething thing that will go away. In the meantime, I'm doing all the other things they recommend for decreasing the number of times he wakes.

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