So I have a 5 month old and he is on and off with his sleeping habits. One night he will sleep 6 hours in his own bed and then 2-3 in mine. Another night he will be up all night needing a pacifier every 20 min. Another night he sleeps 8 hours in his crib and then 1-2 hours in mine. It is so topsy turvy.
So the nights he sleeps why is it that I can’t. I fell asleep last night at 11:30pm and he woke up at 5am fro a pacifier and I gave him one. 10 min. later he is crying so I bring him into my bed and BOOM he is crashed out on my bed. Still is crashed and it is 2 hours later. Well he is crashed tow hours later and what am I doing? Well I did a 40 min. workout, had breakfast, drank coffee and am not getting caught up on a recorded show.
Why is it that I absolutely crave sleep pretty much all my time of the day and when my son does finally sleep I can’t. I got up at 5am and could not go back to sleep. I hope that when he does finally consistently sleep through the night that I can get at least 7-8 hours instead of 5!
Go to post on 3-4-10 for follow up on this. I found some advice that seems to work. It was too long to leave as a comment.
Eli did that, too. When I asked the doc about it, she said to just quit getting up. She said he was doing it out of habit. My concern was that he would wake Ethan. Honestly, in two nights, he was sleeping. Since he was six months old (and he is now 2 years) he goes to bed at 7:30 and sleeps all night. We have to wake him up on weekdays!!