Early riser- can I change it?

RBC

DD goes to bed around 6:30 and is up for the day at 5AM. I would be ok if she slept for most of the night but she wakes up all night long. Last night at least 5 times. Anyone have any suggestions on how we can help her sleep a bit longer? TIA

uofibabe

why is she waking?? I think that would be the first issue to figure out before fixing the length of time she sleeping at night.   DS usually goes to bed no later than 7 and last night was actually 6pm on the dot.  He gets up between 6-7am.  I'm not complaining because he does STTN.

JinglesChic

I know that later does not equal a later wake up time, but DS gets put down at 9 and wakes up around 8/9. Ditto on finding out why so you can fix the problem. 

Mee83shell

1st--try a snack or something before bed if your LO is waking up to eat.

2nd--I need help with the early riser thing too. If LO goes to bed at midnight or at 7pm, he's still up between 5am & 6am...and I can't take it anymore. He refuses, yes refuses, to nap. I put him in his crib asleep or half asleep and he puts himself down for his nap and is awake in less than an hour.

RBC

uofihoard:

why is she waking?? I think that would be the first issue to figure out before fixing the length of time she sleeping at night.   DS usually goes to bed no later than 7 and last night was actually 6pm on the dot.  He gets up between 6-7am.  I'm not complaining because he does STTN.

i can't figure out why she wakes up. She's been doing it since she was 4 months. She's not hungry but now she's used to comfort nursing. I've tried to break this habit by having DH come to her in the evening but he gives up (actually he's not that intuitive when it comes to soothing her). I'm not sure if breaking the comfort nursing will make her sleep longer stretches. She does the same with naps.

iowagirl73

She is the habit of nursing in the middle of the night.  When she wakes up, she is expecting the same.  I'd start weaning her off of 1 night feeding and when that one is taken care of, start weaning from another.  It is going to take time.  If you are going to do something, you have to stick to it and not give up (and this is you and your H). 

Some kids just don't sleep well though.  As for the early rising thing, you can try to change it by 15min increments but even then, you won't be able to change it from a 5am wake up to 9am wake up.  That just isn't going to happen.  You can also try delaying the bedtime by 15min increments.  Just realize that there may be some crying.  Your baby is over 6mos old which also means you can try sleep training (whatever method) if you want. 

As for the poster who's child doesn't nap well.  SAme thing.  Some kids just don't.  DS1 was a 40 or 45min napper for a LONG time.  You could honestly set your watch by it.  He eventually grew out of it, but it took awhile.

RBC

iowagirl73:

She is the habit of nursing in the middle of the night.  When she wakes up, she is expecting the same.  I'd start weaning her off of 1 night feeding and when that one is taken care of, start weaning from another.  It is going to take time.  If you are going to do something, you have to stick to it and not give up (and this is you and your H). 

Some kids just don't sleep well though.  As for the early rising thing, you can try to change it by 15min increments but even then, you won't be able to change it from a 5am wake up to 9am wake up.  That just isn't going to happen.  You can also try delaying the bedtime by 15min increments.  Just realize that there may be some crying.  Your baby is over 6mos old which also means you can try sleep training (whatever method) if you want. 

As for the poster who's child doesn't nap well.  SAme thing.  Some kids just don't.  DS1 was a 40 or 45min napper for a LONG time.  You could honestly set your watch by it.  He eventually grew out of it, but it took awhile.

She's not really nursing, she latches on and barely sucks for 1 min and falls asleep. But if I try to pull her off too soon she'll tighten her latch. It's like I'm the pecifier. The weird thing is that sometimes she won't do that, she'll just fall asleep on my lap.