New member howdy and some advice sought
I just found this group (I have been a Vox lame-o) and am excited to see so many other mom's who work. Around my way, most of my mommy friends either work from home or stay at home. I'm from Austin, TX and have a 14 month old Houdini.
His dad and I work opposite schedules to avoid having to use day care for a while longer. Unfortunately, this means that LittleMan has the craziest sleep schedule ever. He's been staying up till 4 or 5 AM. The 2 AM worked out, since his dad comes home between 12:30 and 2 AM from work. But this 4 AM thing kills. Any advice on how to get the worst monkey ever to learn to sleep normally? I can pretty much expect minimal help from his dad, who feels entitled to 10 hours of sleep a night (I get by 6 nights a week on about 4 and a half). I've been waking him up around 11 AM on the mornings where it's my shift, but that's only 2 days a week. I'm trying to come up with something that I can get his dad to work with me on.
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I'd say that first you have to figure out when you'd like your boy to be sleeping and then work toward a consistent schedule. We just started putting our boy down between 7 & 8pm and let him fuss if he needs to. Then, unless I'm working and need to wake him earlier, he doesn't get out of bed till 7am.
While I don't know the best way to completely change a toddler's sleep schedule I'm sure you can figure out what will work best for your schedules and then make that happen. Might have a few rough days but probably no worse that what it sounds like now. Consistency is probably the most important. We struggle with that too :)