Indeed, in Jack's case it seems to be so. Or else, simply just tonight.

There have been exciting days when we went from event to event and he missed his nap but managed to keel and snore at 10.

Tonight we gently wrangled and teased him from reading his books and playing with his cars to his nan nan at bedtime without any fuss yet he woke about 6 times already in the last 3 hours.

Could it be the light? Dear hubby complains when I leave the desk light on, it affects his and Jack's sleep. Scientifically it has some credence. Light-sensitive people wake when the sun shines through the windows. When we were in Melbourne (without any curtains), Jack woke at 8am despite sleeping at around 2am the night before. Something about melatonin production. You can Google it.

I know I really should be doing an analysis on this so I'll report back again after recording some data. So far it has just been my foggy memory. I need some sleep too and I seem to function best with 8 hours sleep (after much experimentation).

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