What do I do if my baby is active at night and tired during the day?
Say if you have a situation where your child, your young baby, is sleeping more in the day and is awake at night; you notice that their cycle is reversed. It's a big problem because we want to sleep at night-time, don't we? What you can do is you can morph; you can adjust their sleep cycle by doing a couple of things. No. 1: if they're in a feeding routine, you need to look at what they're being fed, because usually babies fall asleep after feeding. Now, we have got to just understand one thing. If we're talking about a baby say under three or four months of age they may not have established a good sleep routine. From about three months onward we would expect the baby to be sleeping more at night-time than in the day. So, at night-time they would have longer stretches of night-time sleep. If you have a situation where that is reversed, then perhaps try waking your baby up in the daytime just a little bit; even just by half an hour or 15 minutes to half an hour. When you wake them up from their nap, you help them build up more sleep debt. So, if you're constantly delaying their nap later, waking them up a little bit earlier from their nap, and then delaying their next nap, over a period of a day or two you may be able to resynchronise their sleep cycle.
