Early waking?

julia0402

I am pretty sure there is nothing I can do about this, but I thought I'd ask because I am really tired. ?C has always gotten up for the day between 4:30 and 5 every day-- no matter what time she goes to bed the night before. ?

Is there anything I can do to help her sleep until a more reasonable hour??

ashleigh1984

I dont have an answere, but Shawn does the same thing. So I would love to see if there are any answere for the problem.

Kari Merks

I wish!  Stasa gets up between 5:00 and 6:00 every day.  We started putting her pacifier in there for her and now she'll sit quietly, chewing on that.  Otherwise I just bring her to bed with us so I can lay down while feeding her.

KathlovesTim

Have you tried putting her to bed at a consistently later time? Maybe she just needs a few days to reset her clock?

We just dropped our 3rd nap of the day, which was increasingly short anyway, to try to adjust wake-up time, too. Although now I see I have nothing to complain about, since 5:30 is sounding better and better!

HSHHC recommended "ignoring" until 6:00 and, although we successfully did "graduated extinction" for naps/nightime, I can't bring myself to do this because she has to be hungry after sleeping all night!

GL! Sorry I don't have more ideas!

ncbelle

Will she go back to sleep if you feed her?  Kiddo usually starts to wake around that time but I nurse him and he falls back to sleep for a while.

AmyJ1116

We had a similar problem.  Will was waking at 5:15-5:30 everyday and this was NOT acceptable for me and my husband.  We just dealt with it until I read Ferber to break Will of the pacifier and noticed the he mentions early wakers in there and said something like that babies wake with the expectation of being fed.  He basically says that if they get up, fine, but don't feed them until the time when you want them to get up. 

So when Will woke at 5:30, we simply didn't feed him until 6.  It took about a week, but now he wakes at 6.  Problem solved.

Ferber does say that this only works once they are old enough that they don't wake for food.  He (and I) are obviously not advocating withholding a hungry baby from food in order to accommodate a later wakeup time.  Good luck!

KathrynMD

ncbelle:

Will she go back to sleep if you feed her?  Kiddo usually starts to wake around that time but I nurse him and he falls back to sleep for a while.

Ditto - until about 2 weeks ago, DD was waking up around 4-5 - I mistakenly thought she was ready for the day, but then I tried feeding her immediately, and made like a middle of the night event - no lights, no talking, no diaper change - and she would eat and go back to sleep immediately until 6-6:30 sometimes even 7:30.

She's dropped this early morning feeding very recently.