Well, we've made progress.
Dean's sleep
nap: 5 minutes to sleep
8:00- 5 minutes to sleep
4:30- 1 hour 15 minutes
Now I'm stuck, is there a time where you still have a tired kid and you just get up with him for the day?
Things I know about myself as a mother:
I would pat, rock, rub, sooth, etc to help him go back to sleep if it helped him.
I would bring him into my own bed.
Iwould be willing to learn how to do the splits if it helped him to get better sleep.
Things I'm grateful for:
Nothing will help Dean except to leave him alone. Everything else makes it harder for him to fall back asleep because he is tired but he wants to play. This is a good thing so that I don't end up with an 8 year old and all future children sleeping in my bed after the bedtime ritual of rocking, patting, soothing, rubbing, and doing the splits for each of them.
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If you have a schedule and it is getting close to the time he normally wakes up, I say just stay awake. It might make for a fussier morning (until nap) but for me, it would be better than risking having to readjust the schedule.
Hang in there. He'll get it figured out soon.
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