When do they start to sleep in a little?

Hi ladies :wavey:

I know I don't really belong here yet, we are close to 1 but not quite there yet. This morning my girls slept in until 6 am for the first time since they've been STTN. They are usually up between 5 and 5:30. I was wondering if this might become routine, and if it's possible that they might start sleeping even later. Do they start sleeping in a little as they get older?

I know by the time they are teenagers they'll be wanting to sleep all day long, so at some point they've got to start sleeping in a little, right?

It would be so fabulous if this next year they would start sleeping until 7 am! About what age does that start?

 

Hmmm...don't want to burst your bubble but I am still waiting for mine to sleep later. They have always been early risers thankfully they eventually went from 5:30 to now waking around 6:30 that's about the best I am going to get.

 

Mine get up between 9 and 9:30 each day. Of course they go to bed at 8:30 or 9 so this is expected.

 

My girls have been getting up at 6 on the dot ever since they started STTN at around 6 months. I'm hoping they will sleep a little later when we make the switch to one nap, or else there's no way they'd survive with only one nap. I'm in the middle of trying to figure this out right now.

 

I think it really depends on what time they go to bed. At around a year mine slept from 8pm to between 6:30 and 7am. Now at 18+ months they sleep from between 8 and 8:30pm to between 7 and 7:30am. DH and I are not morning people so it works for us that they go to bed a little later and sleep in a little bit. I usually get up at 7 and then have some time to shower and drink a cup of coffee before I get them out of bed.

 

Hmm...mine have generally gone to bed around 7 and wake around 5:30 to 6. No sleeping in going on here but mine go to bed early too.

 

Ugh I wish they would just sleep in on the weekends! I used to wake up early for work before having them but that meant 2 days a week I got to sleep in. These girls wake up early 7 days a week!

 

My twins are 18 months old almost, and they still dont quite STTN, i wish they did. They go to bed about 7 and get up about 7. So were lucky there. I feel terrible though, because i put a bottle of water up there when i go to bed so i dont have to get up in the middle of the night, DH is working in Alaska every other month. And i hate to let them CIO. So all i can say is, i imagine they will sleep in a bit later. What time do you put them to bed? Maybe a little later and they will sleep in longer?

 

My girls are in bed by 8 or 8:30 and they are usually up between 7:30 or 8:00. As my girls have gotten older they are sleeping in more in more. Yesterday for the first time ever they slept until 9:30, I thought I was going to pass out--it was great!

 

Mine started sleeping a bit later (like 6-6:30 instead of 5-5:30) just after 1 year. They didn't start sleeping much later than that until after 2 years. Now, at almost 3, they're up at 6:30 most mornings, but occasionally sleep till 7 or even 7:30.

They also go to bed pretty early -- they were in bed by 7 until about 18 months, by 7:30 until about age 2.5, and now we aim for 7:30-8.

 

I didnt read all of the pp, so forgive me if I repeat something.

I think every child is different and it also has to do with what time they go to sleep at night.
My first son used to get up at 7am, since he was a baby and through the years very very gradually has started sleeping later. He will usually sleep until 8, but if he went to be very late, he might stay in bed till 9 (But hes 4!)
Both of my girls are early risers, always have been. I think they are light sleepers, so if I get up they will get up too. Even if Im not up they will wake up around 6-630. If I let them lay in the bed w/ me and I dont get up, sometimes they'll go back to sleep for an hour or so.
My DS has always been a good sleeper too. He gets up between 7-8, unless someone wakes him up.

 

QUOTE(snoopytwins @ Oct 7 2008, 11:18 AM) [snapback]1015479[/snapback]
Hmm...mine have generally gone to bed around 7 and wake around 5:30 to 6. No sleeping in going on here but mine go to bed early too.


Same here!

 

When we did CIO at 11 months to STTN we slowly moved wakeup from 6am to 7am, over about the course of a month or so. So I never go in before 7am, and sometimes they wake at 6am and cry, but 99% if they wake early they play in thier cribs until I get them.
Once we went to 1 nap they now sleep from 7pm-8am most days with a 2-3hr nap also. Whether they sleep all that time is up to them but they know they will be in thier cribs that whole time.

 

Jack and LIly started STTN at 9 mos. They go to bed around 7:30 or 8 and sleep until 7:30am. Actually, Jack sleeps until 7:30 and Lily can wake anywhere between 6:30 and 7:30 but I just let her play or whine a bit and usually do not get her until time to get her brother. I am sure this will all go to pot with the time change when it approaches.

 

I think it part has to do with your family schedule/routine and part the "wiring" of the child. However, slowly over time...kids do sleep in longer. But "sleeping in" for an early riser may not occur until grade school age.

You have to remember "average" sleep needs. Most toddlers and preschoolers sleep 11-12 hrs at night. They also need more total daily sleep and get that in the form of daytime nap(s). Most 4-5 years olds get 10-11 hrs/night with no (or rare) daytime napping.

So if a parent of 2 year old twins puts their kids down 6:30 or 7 pm....I would assume a wake up time of 6-6:30am. Ours have always gone to bed after 8pm (8:30pm the last couple years) due to daddy's schedule. They wake up around 7:30am. That has been static for years and they are almost 5 yrs old.

I also swear by true room darkening shades. I think it makes a difference!

 

QUOTE(Shadyfeline @ Oct 7 2008, 09:51 AM) [snapback]1015314[/snapback]
Hmmm...don't want to burst your bubble but I am still waiting for mine to sleep later. They have always been early risers thankfully they eventually went from 5:30 to now waking around 6:30 that's about the best I am going to get.


ditto this except today my day started at 6am <_< It sucks but what can I do???

 

Mine are terrible. "Baby A" sleeps from 7 (ish) to 6. No matter how we move his bedtime around, he never gets up after 6.15 (and he naps some days when he is too shattered). "Baby B" sleeps from 7 to 7. He gets a smiley face if he stays in bed til 7 (we tried this with A but to no avail... but oen kid downstairs is less work than 2 (or 5) kids downstairs so we kept B on the smiley scheme).

My little one sleeps to 7 (from 6:30 pm) and when too shattered to 7:30. Has happened twice so far. We are estimating that if we have 6 more kids, no. 9 would sleep in enough for us to get a nice morning in !
Millie

 

I'm still waiting.

 

One of my girls is an early riser she's 5 now and never sleeps past 6.30am most days its 6am, the other is around 7am, so I guess it just depends on the child

 

Ditto Debbi's post, exactly. My kids have always gone to bed late, and gotten up late, because this is just what works for us....as a baby, Nadia used to sleep from 10pm to 10am, roughly. After she started preschool at age 2, we switched her to 8pm to 8am. Now, at the same age as Debbi's kids, she goes to bed around 8:30pm, and still gets up at 8am or slightly before. This will change again next year when she starts K, which starts at 8am, so we'll have to get her up around 6:30am (ugh, not looking forward to it, as I love getting up at 8am right now when she wakes me up, LOL).

My little ones are in their cribs at 9:30pm, and Kevan starts stirring around 8:30 or 9am, while Karina sleeps solidly until about 10am. Just how they're wired....he needs about an hour less sleep than she does per day.

And, true room-darkening shades -- I swear by these, and white noise, too!

 

QUOTE(Shadyfeline @ Oct 7 2008, 07:51 AM) [snapback]1015314[/snapback]
Hmmm...don't want to burst your bubble but I am still waiting for mine to sleep later. They have always been early risers thankfully they eventually went from 5:30 to now waking around 6:30 that's about the best I am going to get.

:blush: Same here. Evan however is a great sleeper. I think it is the child.

 

Mine slept from 6 pm to 6:30 am from 14 weeks until they turned one!

Now it's gone to poop.

They started getting up at 4 am so I moved their bedtime to 7 pm. Now they're getting up at about 5 am which is EARLY but more importantly.. they aren't getting enough sleep at night.. and I don't know how to fix it.

On the flip side, they are napping like champions for the first time EVER! When they were getting enough sleep at nite, they'd take two one hour naps. Now they take one 3 hour nap and one hour and 1/2 nap. I kind of like it, but I'd like them to sleep a longer stretch at nite and sh orten up the naps, maybe.

I'm not sure what happened here but I do not like getting up this early as it makes the days MUCH MUCH longer. Plus, it means that I must go to bed 1/2 hr after they do or I'm shot!

UGH. I am not expecting them to start sleeping later.. in fact, as they get older, they need LESs sleep (as evidence by my situation) so I'm not expecting them to sleep later UNLESS they go to bed at 9 pm and that's not happening!!!

Seems like a common problem tho. I think I might move bedtime up to 6:45pm tonight and see what happens. It may not change their wake time BUT it will add 1/2 hr of sleep.

Good luck!