Tell me I am not the only one...

molly05

...with a baby that REFUSES to sleep past 5-5:30 every morning?! Ever since my DS STTN (around 4 months), he wakes up at 5ish. We have tried adjusting his bedtime, accordingly, and it doesn't change the time he gets up! I have tried to accept that my life starts at 5 AM, but it is hard! This has gone on for 5 months!

 Does anyone else have this problem? 

Carmell226

Well DD does not STTN yet, but she gets up about 6 every morning sometimes earlier....it is hard! Sorry I don't really have any advice, just wanted to let you know you are not alone!

goodgollie

Getting up at 5am is not STTN for me.  Do you feed him when he wakes up that early?  What time do you put him to bed?  Definitely make sure you're not putting him to bed too early.  Then just try letting him play in his crib for awhile, holding off feeding time.  Babies adjust their internal clocks by the times they get fed.  If you wait and feed him at 6am or 7am, he just may start sleeping in until then after a few days. HTH!  By the way, my DS goes to bed at 7:30 and gets up at 7:30 on the weekends, so they can certainly go 12 hours without food.

Mc_Newlywed

Yup, we're up every day between 5-6. ?It stinks but in my "previous life" (when I worked) I was getting up around then anyway. ?So nothing has really changed for me. ?I just wish there was something better on tv at that ungodly hour! ?

ToBeMrsT

yep.. that's our normal wake up time too and always has been.

IckyThump

Yep, DS is typically up at 5:00 or 5:30. We put him down at about 7:00 pm, so he is STTN, so I can't complain too much. DH and I have adjusted our bedtimes accordingly.

OnCloud999

Alex was like that, he'd get up between 4:40 &5am. This went on for 2 months. I finally used Dr. Ferber's suggestion to early waking by trying to shift his sleep phase. This involved not only putting him to bed later, but also shifting his naps and meal times (later). Alex still wakes every morning around 5:20 am, but I bring him to our bed and I can get an hour more out of him.

I tried feeding and that never worked for me.

molly05

Glad to know we are not alone! We put him down at 7 pm, so he is sleeping 10 hours, which I do consider to STTN. I used to be able to nurse him back to sleep, but now, when I nurse him and he is done, he is like, "let's play momma!"

HellsBelle08

You are NOT the only one! Sometimes I feel like the only one too....DS started sttn early, and I was so thankful, thinking, well that's one problem I won't have to deal with-ha!

Ever since daylight savings time he gets up between 4-530am. It REALLY sucks for me because I work f/t, nights, and don't even get in the door til 1am, asleep around 2am, and DH is gone all morning/day working his job, so I am on my own on VERY LITTLE sleep. Ugh!

lep712

My DD is most definitely up by 5:30 most mornings. ?It works for us, as I have to leave my house by 6 to drop her off at the sitter before work, though on the weekends I do wish for a little later wake up. ?It rarely happens though. I'm a teacher, so I'm thinking over the summer I may try to transition her bedtime/wake time a bit, but since she has to get up so early, it works for now.

anna7602

I'm with you. I don't see it as a "problem" since she sttn. I'm pretty used to it now, actually, and since I have to leave for work around 7:30 on the days I go into the office, it's nice to spend that much time with DD in the morning. On the days I am home with her, it's nice that she goes down for a nap pretty early in the morning and I can just relax on my own for a while before anyone is calling me, trying to get me to work, etc.

Mrs.Meg&Jay

yes, until this morning!  DD would always go to bed at 7pm, there was no fighting it, and she'd wake up at 5:30 every morning.

well, with the Thanksgiving holidays we were out and about and she would be up until 8:30ish, and low and behold she woke up at 7:30 this morning!

We are going to try and continue keeping her up (which means we have to be out doing stuff) so she will go to bed a little later and wake up a little later

nooniesgal

DD wakes up about 5:30 but I started to feed her and lay her back in her crib.  After about 5 minutes of happy wiggling she will usually just fall back asleep for about 45 more minutes.  If she doesn't fall back asleep..she will play/coo/watch her crib toy in there for atleast 20 minutes while I catnap.

MattsWifey<3

My baby still wakes up every other hour throughout the night (and day). I am exhausted.

ironmommy

Lily just started STTN two weeks ago after we started working with a baby sleep consultant. She had been waking up every 2 hours all night long, and I was seriously at my wits end ... hence, the sleep coach.

 Anyway, the sleep consultant told me that the 4-5 a.m. wake up routine is the hardest to break. She is insistent with me that if Lily wakes up before 7 a.m. I am to let her cry for 35 minutes if it is non-stop crying - 50 minutes if it is off and on. I am then supposed to go in to her room, feed her, and put her back down until 7.

It sucks listening to her cry and I feel terrible doing it, but it really has worked for us.

ironmommy

FWIW, I personally don't think keeping the baby up later is the answer. Lily is in bed at 6 or 6:30 and she can and does sleep until 6:30 or 7.