Early waking help

rynalicia

DS has always been an early waker...6-7 am.  In the past two months it has slowly gotten earlier and earlier.  We are currently at 430 am!  Even the 5 was frustrating but I always just got to work early, this new time is killing us. 

 We've tried moving his bedtime earlier, feeding him and putting him back to sleep, keeping him up later.  Here is our schedule.  Does anyone have any suggestions? or similar situations, is this sometimes just normal?

 

430-5 Bottle 7 ounces

play

6 solids: good amount of cereal and fruit

7-730 nap for two hours

9 bottle

1030 fruit, veggies about 6 oz

11 nap for 2 hours

1 bottle

3 1 hour nap

430 dinner cereal and veggies

7 bottle

730-830 bed

 

can_can

Does he have teeth coming in at all? I ask because DS pulled the same thing... it got earlier and earlier until he was up at 2am every night! Then when we felt a tooth poke through his gums, within 2 days he was back sleeping later again. So it was his teething pain that was waking him up.

Hope he gets back to normal soon!

rynalicia

Hi!  Long time no see, hope you and your little boy are doing well.  It could be.  He has his two bottom teeth, maybe his top?  I hope that's it!

WifeofaMarine

Sorry, no advice, but just wanted to say I feel your pain. DS was STTN until 6:30 or 7 a.m. at around 7.5 months. Then mid-May, he had a sinus infection and also learned to sit and stand in his crib. Since then, sleeping is such a crapshoot. But, normally, he wakes up at 3:30 or 4:00 a.m. (sometimes its the first waking and sometimes the second). Sometimes he'll go back to sleep if I nurse him, but a lot of the times he just wants to be up and play, and not play in his crib, he wants to be awake and play with us, climbing all over us, smiling, at one exhausted mommy. Then it normally takes me 1 - 2.5 hours to get him back to sleep, which on the weekdays, is just in time for me to get up for work, great! Hope your LO starts sleeping later soon & letting you get some more sleep.

rynalicia

Thanks.

 

I'm wondering if he is taking too long of naps.  He gets so tired though.  I guess I can try cutting his last nap...I don't know how he'd make it though.  Worth a try.

WifeofaMarine

Right around the time that DS started this, he also started napping horribly. He went from a 2-4 hour nap in the AM and 45 min - 1 hour nap in the PM, to maybe taking a 10-20 minute catnap, unless we're on the boat (the motion is soothing) and then he'll sleep for hours. I've tried the swing in an effort to mimic the boat rocking motion, nope, no dice. Just the boat or the car, other than that, he refuses any type of substantial nap.

Alli3586

He seems to be napping a lot. Is it possible to cut out his last one hour nap at 3? Maybe then he will sleep another hour in the morning. My DD did this about a month ago. She started waking up around 5:30am. Luckily, I would feed her and she would go back to sleep. Now she is up at 7am on the dot every day. I hope something works for you!

FutureMrsCaesar

DS started doing that too, and we did 2 things.  One, we got blackout curtains because I noticed that the sun was coming up earlier when it started and I thought maybe that was confusing him.  And two, our Dr had told us at the 6 month apt to work on dropping the first morning bottle/breast feeding because that encourages them to wake up earlier.  They know they are going to get a bottle and be cuddled and whatnot.  So he said to get DS up, go downstairs and feed him his breakfast (cereal and fruit in our case).  Eventually he got the msg that he was going to have to wake up and work for his food, not lay in the dark and be cuddled.  So it has helped, but he still gets up around 6:45.