[blParent] Exhausted and frustrated

[Star Gazer]

Really good point about the skill set development, I forgot about it, and I shouldn’t have because when I asked our pediatrician  why they couldn’t just sleep at night and work on all those skills in the daytime she told me to think about all the stuff a human has to learn and do correctly all day everyday, walking even when they don’t feel like it, walking and carrying objects, feeding themselves without making too much of a mess, talking, all types of stuff that they’d better have nailed down before school starts. She said our bodies know what we need to do and the focus for the baby is on getting those skills mastered so they can one day go to school and do things little kids do. 
Obviously babies don’t know about school, but that answer helped me and the fact that skill development seems to be a hard coded thing v. Cultural or family driven made a lot of sense to me. I kind of thought it like an exam from hell, where the baby is thinking “If I don’t manage to figure this out, my life is all screwed up” On some level, we’ve all been there.


> On Mar 7, 2024, at 2:21 PM, Melissa Riccobono via BlParent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Clayton,
> A couple of suggestions. Perhaps, if possible, a nap in the afternoon and
> then allowing him to stay up a bit later at night? So maybe shooting for
> bedtime around 7:30 to 8:30 instead of 6:30? He may be a night owl
> naturally, so this might help without being too late. It is also quite
> common around this age to have these types of behaviors. Often babies at
> this age are learning new skills: crawling, pulling to stand, walking,
> talking, etc., and they naturally want more time awake to practice these
> things. Of course it could be teething as well. I guess the only other thing
> I can think of is, now that it's getting nicer outside, try to keep him busy
> outdoors when you can. Maybe the fresh air and new experiences will make him
> more tired at night. Believe me, I know how difficult this can be! Our
> oldest still has trouble sleeping, and she's 17 now. Some kids are naturally
> night owls. Some kids just have a tough time turning off their brains for
> sleep. I really hope you will find the key to helping your son, and you, get
> more rest at night.
> Melissa
> 
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> I have no idea why, but my 10 and 1/2 month old son now has been having a
> pattern of sleep behaviors that are leaving me both exhausted and
> frustrated. I put him to bed usually between 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the
> very latest, only for him to get up at around anywhere from 9:30 p.m. to
> 11:30 p.m., and he won't go back to sleep until almost 1:00 a.m. to 2:00
> a.m., so it's very difficult to get him to go back to sleep when he wakes
> up. I would expect this of a newborn, but certainly not at 10 and 1/2 months
> old. What do I do?
> 
> Clayton Jacobs.
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