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Waking a sleeping baby...
Oct. 12th, 2010 07:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
puzzlementI'd appreciate people's general thoughts on the issue of babies, children, sleep deprivation and family schedules.
This is inspired by a casual mention else-journal of a chronically sleep deprived one year old. I'd really like my poor baby (currently 8 months old) to get the sleep his body wants to do, but with adult jobs and baby daycare it's increasingly likely that sometimes we are going to wake him well before he would wake himself. (For the last few months he's tended to have a sleep in in the morning, at least by baby standards.)
We haven't even solved this problem for his father yet, who needs an alarm to be awake by 10am. (I'm the kind of person who quickly trains to be awake 2 minutes before the alarm, or 2 minutes before the baby, I have no idea what my natural waking even is. I have the morning-person pattern of a very regular bedtime instead.)
This is inspired by a casual mention else-journal of a chronically sleep deprived one year old. I'd really like my poor baby (currently 8 months old) to get the sleep his body wants to do, but with adult jobs and baby daycare it's increasingly likely that sometimes we are going to wake him well before he would wake himself. (For the last few months he's tended to have a sleep in in the morning, at least by baby standards.)
We haven't even solved this problem for his father yet, who needs an alarm to be awake by 10am. (I'm the kind of person who quickly trains to be awake 2 minutes before the alarm, or 2 minutes before the baby, I have no idea what my natural waking even is. I have the morning-person pattern of a very regular bedtime instead.)
