As a stay-at-home mom who just wanted her son to sleep so she could sleep, I felt no need to create a sleeping schedule for Eliot. Now at nearly nine months, I've been waiting for the perfect opportunity to instate one; however, since Eliot has been waking during the six o' clock hour, this is not a schedule-beginning that I would like to jump off with.
Why is he waking so early? Could it be he's going to bed too early? Is he going to bed too late? Is he waking when I get up to pee during the five o'clock hour and gives up trying to fall asleep again around six? Why is it that some mornings he has slept until 8, 7:30, or even 7? I'm ready for some normalcy so I can begin a daily routine and actually make plans. I'm also ready (and I'm sure future me will curse present me later) to cut out nap #3.
Current hypothesis: He wakes every few hours (fact), and when he wakes around five or six and sees the sun up, he assumes his family, along with the sun, is up, and he doesn't want to miss out on any excitement. After all, even if he could tell time, there's no clock in his room.
Good intention (about three weeks old): install heavier curtains. Of course, I've tried this, but the sun still peeks through on the side, so I'm going to have to install a longer curtain rod and mount curtains to cover the edges where the sun peeks through, saying, "Eliot, let's get up and play! You're missing so much!!"
Pressing goal: Since I/we will beginning Mothers' Day Out in August, we really need to move to an 8am wake up, so Eliot's first nap isn't due a half hour before I have to leave him with strangers for the first time. Ugh! I'll only be next door, so I know his crying is going to kill me :(
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