Please tell me WWYD...wake up at 5am or no???

dazidog

DD gets up around 5am (w/in 15 min before or after 5am) every.single.morning no matter what time she goes to bed or how many naps she's had that day or how much activity she's had.  Some mornings she's super happy at 5am and some she is miserable from being so tired, it really varies.

DH thinks it's insane for her to wake up at that time and wants to do CIO/sleep training w/ DD and try to change her wake up time to 6am.

We did CIO quite a few months ago for going to sleep and STTN and it worked well but for some reason I'm reluctant to do it for the A.M., it seems like such a hard time to determine what to do....

Let her wake up or try and teach her to sleep in to a more human/functional hour?????

jilley

I def would not get up at 5am every morning. I would let her CIO until she learns to go back to sleep until a later time.

FutureMrsCaesar

Have you played around with putting her to bed later, or taking 1 less nap (if shes on 2) or having her take her nap earlier in the day?

We played around with those variables for a few weeks until we found that DS will wake up by 6am if he takes 2 naps the day before.  If he only takes one he sleeps in until about 7:30.  What time he goes to bed doesn't really have much to do with it, oddly enough, its all about the naps.

laurenFaith

Does she take milk in the morning? DD wakes up at 6am, we give her a bottle in her crib. She drinks it and sleeps for another hour to an hour and a half. 

We might be setting up bad habits but I don't care. I NEED sleep! 

Wally3

I would do some form of sleep training.  i couldn't function getting up that early.

whitless

I would definitely try to change that.  When is her bedtime?  I would maybe try an EARLIER bedtime (sounds crazy, but I swear it works)

WannaBMommy81

I wouldn't get up at 5am at this point.  If DD wakes up crying it is usually between 4-5am but you can tell she's not really awake even if she's standing in the corner of her crib.  I can just lay her down and she'll go back to sleep though.  I definitely wouldn't keep getting up at 5am as I have friends with now 3yo that they still get up at 5 because they didn't want to the hassle of trying to get her to sleep in later.