New early wake-up help

megan&jay

The last few days DD has decided her new wake-up time for the day is 6am! I don't know if it is just me and my body has adjusted but it is very hard to wake-up at 6:00. She is still going to bed at the same time, started to ont STTN and now wakes up so early and is ready to start the day.

Any advice? We have tried keeping her up a little later because she takes a later afternoon nap but still wakes up the same time no matter what time she goes to bed

kandp

No advice sorry! DS is up between 5 and 5:30 every morning, so I feel your pain!

welshgirl

Ditto. DH is up every day 5-5:30, but is definitely tired and needs either to go back to sleep or nap pretty quickly - but if anyone has any advice, I'm game...

Skipperg82

We are kind of struggling with this too, and I'm starting to do a few things that I've heard can help -

1) pushing back bedtime slowly in increments of 10-15minutes every few nights to see if that will push back wake up time

2) start the first nap later than usual, right now DS's wake time has been 6am and his first nap is usually around 9am...he can't yet stay up 3 hrs but I've been pushing him to 2 hr 45 min and extending wake time slowly to get to 9am. ?I've heard that some babies will wake early if they know that they can get a nice long morning nap in. ?Hopefully this will work!

3) cutting short the afternoon nap. ?I think DS is at the point where 3 naps is a little too much for him, but 2 is not enough so I'm going to work on this next, trying to maybe keep the catnap to 30 min. instead of 45 min...

4) I've heard "wake to sleep" is helpful to - go in baby's room an hour before they normally wake up and rub their back or give it a scratch- enough for them to stir but not wake up fully. ?The 'mini wake-up' is supposed to reset their sleep cycle so that they sleep longer. ?This is supposed to work after doing it for a few days but I'm too afraid to try this!!?

Hopefully this works!?