Anonymous wrote:Guys, guys, guys! OP here. We didn't do a sleep study. We took him for a 15 minute consult with a sleep clinic. It cost us a whopping $30 copay. Some people pay $600 for a sleep consultant who has no qualifications other than they maybe set up a website and have a kid or two themselves. Take it easy, folks. We just want to get our kid on an optimal schedule and sought out some professional advice to help us get there.

I love how you don't address your unrealistic expectations of your own baby and of your day care provider.

When our kids went thru the 5am wakeup time, we just pulled them into our bed and they promptly fell back asleep until 7am.

Anonymous wrote:Guys, guys, guys! OP here. We didn't do a sleep study. We took him for a 15 minute consult with a sleep clinic. It cost us a whopping $30 copay. Some people pay $600 for a sleep consultant who has no qualifications other than they maybe set up a website and have a kid or two themselves. Take it easy, folks. We just want to get our kid on an optimal schedule and sought out some professional advice to help us get there.

Insurance will pay for this? What is an outpatient sleep clinic?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Guys, guys, guys! OP here. We didn't do a sleep study. We took him for a 15 minute consult with a sleep clinic. It cost us a whopping $30 copay. Some people pay $600 for a sleep consultant who has no qualifications other than they maybe set up a website and have a kid or two themselves. Take it easy, folks. We just want to get our kid on an optimal schedule and sought out some professional advice to help us get there.

There is no "optimal schedule"! And in a group care setting, you're never going to get optimal anyway.

NP but yes there is an optimal schedule. I don't think OP is wrong. I wish more people had schedules. I see a lot of over tired, cranky babies everywhere. Their parents say they don't sleep and just shrug their shoulders about it. Sleep is important and critical to brain development.

Anonymous wrote:Or, you could just start your day at 5am. It's just an hour away from 6am.

This. I think you have to roll with it. Go to bed an hour earlier yourself.

Anonymous wrote:Guys, guys, guys! OP here. We didn't do a sleep study. We took him for a 15 minute consult with a sleep clinic. It cost us a whopping $30 copay. Some people pay $600 for a sleep consultant who has no qualifications other than they maybe set up a website and have a kid or two themselves. Take it easy, folks. We just want to get our kid on an optimal schedule and sought out some professional advice to help us get there.

There is no "optimal schedule"! And in a group care setting, you're never going to get optimal anyway.

Guys, guys, guys! OP here. We didn't do a sleep study. We took him for a 15 minute consult with a sleep clinic. It cost us a whopping $30 copay. Some people pay $600 for a sleep consultant who has no qualifications other than they maybe set up a website and have a kid or two themselves. Take it easy, folks. We just want to get our kid on an optimal schedule and sought out some professional advice to help us get there.

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like s/he sleeps all night? Some babies are just early wakers. Parenting isn't always convenient.

+1

There is absolutely NO ISSUE here. At all. He sleeps 10 hours a night, and this parent went to a sleep clinic to get child to just sleep to 6 am???

Plus, kids schedules adjust all the time. My DS is 14 months and has gone between getting up anywhere from 5-6 am...which makes sense, since he sleeps 10-11 hours. Occasionally 12. It is what it is.

Yea there's no way an in home daycare (or a center) can accommodate your needs here.

Anonymous wrote:Wait... I can't get over that someone took a 12 month old to a sleep clinic because he was waking up at 5 AM. That's pretty normal.

I actually think OP is full of it. No reputable pediatric sleep center (Georgetown, Childrens) would take a one year old for this "problem". I think this is just the schedule OP wants and she made up a fake sleep study story.

Anonymous wrote:Holy shit. You took your 12 month old to a sleep study because he wakes up at 5am?!? He is an early riser, live with it. It will change, often. Fuck the sleep study and when they say he should nap. If he is tired, he will sleep. Obviously he is tired if he is sleeping at 12:30 there. She also can not force him to sleep longer than 45 mins for the first nap. You have high, unrealistic expectations for your baby. 8pm for a bedtime is late for a one year old. Her schedule sounds better than yours.

I bet they happily took your money. I know a lot about sleep, unfortunately, as our oldest has ASD and has had sleep problems since birth, so many sleep issues that he qualified for early stages for sleep advice. He didn't do an overnight sleep study until he was 6 though. Some kids just wake up naturally at 5. There's nothing wrong with his current schedule for him. For you, it sucks, buts thats parenting.

Thanks for the good laughs, OP. You are nuts!

We couldn't do the 5am wakeup either so she cried it out. She only cried for like 5 minutes for a couple of days and now sleeps until 7am.

8 pm is a pretty late bedtime for a 1 year old.

And any if you were at most daycare centers your toddler wouldn't have the option to nap twice since many move to a one nap schedule once the children move to the one year old room.

It sounds like you want a perfect sleep schedule for you. Some people get lucky and get that, others get children that get up early. If you need a fine-tuned schedule in order to manipulate your child's wake up time, then daycare is not the right solution for you.

Wait... I can't get over that someone took a 12 month old to a sleep clinic because he was waking up at 5 AM. That's pretty normal.