Baby can't sleep, waving arms keep him awake

liney

I never woke my son from naps, honest, but if he was still asleep at 3pm both his socks magically (!) worked their way off and he woke up...:D

ClareEmily

My baby is now 7 months old, and has two naps during the day and his bedtime routine is very simple, from about 4 months old:
Around 5pm given some solids, 6pm change into PJs, sit on knee watching the bedtime hour on cbeebies, and has last milk feed (I am Bf-ing), and take him up to cot at 7pm if asleep or not, room is dark apart from his space lantern. From 6pm I give him lots of cuddles, and he sits happily with thumb in mouth on my lap, but no playing with noisy toys etc.

I actually give bath-times during the day as he gets TOO excited, and if my hubby is around during bedtimes, then it is game over as baby thinks he is the funniness Daddy in the world.

Hope this helps.

starjumper

Rule number one is never wake a sleeping baby, so I never do and I don't think I ever have done.

We've never had a strict routine with him, it all depends on what time he wakes up in the morning and we just follow his cues but basically in a three hour period he has a bottle, has a play and a nappy change or two and then gets a nap, for me he could sleep for an hour or more but he had 30 minutes and you can set your watch by him (if he ever goes a few minutes more or less it freaks me out because it's so unusual).

Tonight baby has decided to mix it up again and conked out at 7pm, woke up at 8pm for a feed and had been snoring ever since. Long may this continue! Thanks guys x

somethingsgottogive

Have you recently moved him from a moses basket to a cot or anything? I know that sometimes babies can get 'freaked out' by the sudden space around them - we had to put LO in the moses basket IN the cot for the first couple of weeks until our LO got used to it.