What is your LO's bedtime and wake-up time? (if STTN)

skroops

Lately, Zoey has started waking up WAY too early (usually around 4:00 AM), and I'm not sure what to do to change it.  She has always been an early riser - getting up between 5:00 and 5:30, but 4:00 is just NOT okay.  So, I'm wondering if I need to push back her bedtime.

She currently goes to bed around 7:00, which I know is early but she is exhausted by then and will start to get crabby.  And she goes right to sleep when I put her in the crib, so I know she is tired.   I have tried streching her bedtime until 7:30, or even 8:00 some nights, but she wakes up at the same time anyways, so it doesn't even seem to matter.  A friend at work suggested to me that if I just start giving her a later bedtime consistently, she will eventually start to sleep later. 

WDYT?   If your baby is STTN, what time is bedtime?  And what time does he/she wake up for the day?

 

mrsoc

We have been very lucky that E is a good sleeper, and has been all along.  I used to have to wake him up to feed him in the beginning.  Now he is going to bed between 9 and 10 and waking up between 7-7:30 (he is still sleeping).  However, he is not a really good napper during the day (neither are either of his parents .  He takes several cat naps.  I am wondering if this will change as he starts moving more (ie. rolling, etc..).  We have him out and about almost every day and he will nap then, but not good at napping at home, and definitely not in his crib...yet. 

MrsWhiteonWhiteSt

Justin sleeps 7pm-7:30am. He will go through early stretches but early for him is like 6:30. He'll usually take his paci so I can "snooze" for an hour. People always tell me "push back his bedtime" so I cna sleep in. He's just like Zoey. He's up at the same time whether he goes to bed at 7:00 or 9:00. Could you get those super dark curtains, would those help?

olivia_eve

Rosie goes down around 7:45pm and gets up around 7:30am. She used to wake up closer to 8:30am, but after the Daylight savings switch she still hasn't adjusted! 4am is rough, that's awful. I agree with trying a later bedtime for a week or two- a night or two might not be enough to get her to switch her routine.

JenJar

Gavin goes to bed around 8 and usually sleeps til 7....it's rare, but sometimes he'll sleep til 7:30.  Lately he's been waking up sometime between 6 and 6:30.  Maybe it's in the air....maybe it's their anticipation about Christmas!   Honestly, the days we have Gavin up later (like if we're out with friends or something) are the nights we have the most problems with STTN and waking early.  I'm not sure of any advice other than to just go in and reassure her that you're there but tell her it's still night time and she has to go back to bed.  I'm not sure how it will work, but maybe after a few times she'll realize it's not time to wake up yet.  There have been a couple times that G's woken up in the middle of the night and I just go in and rub his back and tell him to go back to sleep, and after a few minutes of crying he lays back down.  Good luck!

orangeluck

G is sleeping by 7:45 and we really don't expect to hear her up before 7:00- sometimes she'll snooze until 7:30 other times she'll be up at 6:00. 

day194

L goes to bed pretty consistently at 7:30 and is usually up between 6 - 6:30.  I nurse him in bed when he wakes and sometimes he falls back to sleep for a little bit, but not always.  No matter when he goes to bed, he's always up right around the same time.

 I'd do what PP suggested.  Go in and comfort and try to get LO back to sleep.  I'd try to not pick her up, give a pacifer (if she takes one) and pat/rub her back.  Hopefully, she'll get the message after a couple of nights.

MelissaSue81

Well we have a little nightowl on our hands..

Eve's bedtime is 10.. sometimes its closer to 10:30 by the time she actually goes down. I prefer her to sleep til at least 8. Lately, she's been waking up a little too early, this morning she woke up at 6 and again at 7.. and we've been going in laying her back down and sometimes she will go back to sleep.. or sometimes we let her CIO for awhile. I just don't want her getting in the morning whenever she wants and thinking she can scream and get out of her crib.

ljoyw_27

10pm-6am...for 2 weeks straight now...it's awesome! 

Telyco

We moved Evan's bedtime for the same reason...he started getting up earlier and earlier....and since I stay at home I really didn't want to get up before 7 each day.

So we're at about 9pm - 8am right now. But this am he didn't get up till 9.

Read2Me

Eva goes to bed between 8-8:30 and wakes up around 7:30.  Lately she has been waking up around 5:30-6am screaming but I usually can go in and tell her she's okay and lay her back down and she'll sleep another hour.  I don't know how you do it with Zoey waking so early!  You must be exhausted!

BitsyKelly

We've always been lucky that DD, like her mom, loves her sleep.  She goes down around 8 and is out cold until 9am, sometimes later.  She's also a good napper.  Besides pushing back her bedtime a little bit every night I don't have any other advice.

wendyj

Ian goes to bed around 8pm. He's never been a late sleeper - he's usually up by 6:30 both during the week and weekends. If he were to sleep until 7 or later, it would be a miracle! We've tried putting him to bed a little later, but he is truly ready to go at 8pm, so any later would just mean he gets overtired and it's that much harder to get him to sleep.

Every once in a while he will go through spurts of waking up between 5 and 6am. This time, I think it happens to be because he's cutting teeth. Other times, there doesn't seem to be a reason for it. It may last for a week or so, then go back to his usual.

sunnygirl05

We start his bedtime routine around 7:30 and he's asleep by 8:00.  We usually have to wake him up around 6:15 or so on workdays.  He sleeps till about 6:30/7:00 on the weekends.  He's always been an awesome sleeper!

NikCole

Evan just dropped his 4am feeding, and is now sttn (yay!)

He goes to bed at 7:30 and wakes around 6:30-7, but will sometimes sleep until 7:30 if I'm lucky!

How many naps is she taking? Maybe she's ready to drop one?

skroops

Thanks for all the input and advice ladies

Well, I think that I am going to try to give it another week or so sticking to her normal bedtime and see what happens and then if the 4:00 wake up time keeps up, maybe I will experiment with a later bedtime while I am off of work for Christmas vacation. 

Honestly, I really like her going to bed by 7:00 because now that this first tri exhaustion is setting in, I don't have a ton of energy to be playing with her and entertaining her after teaching for a full day.  And I'm reluctant to keep her up too long when she is clearly exhausted by 7:00 since she falls asleep within minutes of me putting her in the crib.

So, I guess I will just wait it out and see what happens for now...

Stellabella125

We had the same problem with Bells. Daylight savings seems to throw us off every year. She was waking up at 430/5 consistently no matter how late we'd put her down. Eventually she worked herself out, no rhyme or reason. It's frustrating, I know. She is like Zoey where she is reaching for her crib between 7/730 and holding her off only seems to make it worse. i did notice that if she had a later nap it would help her sleep a little later. can you push back her nap?