I have a 23-month-old son who hates bedtime. He was a breast baby until he was 1 and that was the only way he went to sleep. Now we have an 8-week-old son and we cannot get the older child to bed. He goes to our bed, where he has always slept, without any problem; he just won't go to sleep. It usually takes an hour for him to fall asleep. He will not nap during the day unless he falls asleep in the car seat and when you move him out, he wakes up. I am due to return to work in four weeks and need to know how to solve our bedtime problem. The newborn also sleeps with us, and is a breast baby also.
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I have a 16-month-old son who is an early bird. He wakes up at 4:30 a.m. It doesn't seem to matter whether he goes to sleep at 7:00 p.m. or 9:00 p.m.; he always wakes up with the sun. He has dark curtains in his room and I've tried to leave him to go back to sleep, but he just carries on crying until I go to him. By 8:00 a.m. he will be so grouchy and tired that he falls asleep before breakfast. He is a healthy, breastfed boy who sleeps through the night. He has a feed before bedtime and then again when he wakes up. We usually try to give him some toys to play with, but in the end he just gets cross with us for not getting out of bed and playing with him. What can we do to make him wake up at a more reasonable hour?
Every parent has trouble getting their children to go to bed and stay in bed.
A sleeping baby is a wonderful sight - especially when you're tired.
