Sometimes he cries himself awake but I also just leave him there and he pits himself back to sleep. No major crying, about 10 sec to a min. Most times he just wakes up and starts talking looking around for me.
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When she has had a good sleep whether in the morning or at naps, she wakes up happy [eating her hands, talking to herself]. If she wakes up crying I can usually soothe her back to sleep because that tells us she is still not fully rested. If she wakes up at night she cries.
I have to wake him up every morning and he generally is all smiles, after his big stretches, then he'll kick his legs. Very rarely will he wake up crying.
For her early morning feeding, DD usually wakes up crying because she's hungry. Then I put her down for another hour or two and she'll wake up happy because she's just no longer sleepy rather than waking up because she's super hungry.
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That's how my baby generally wakes up too. And as another poster said, it's usually because he is waking up because he is hungry or needs to be changed.
During the week we wake him up in the morning and he smiles. On weekends he wakes up in the morning and is usually laughing and cooing, rarely crying. After naps be usually wakes up happy and cooing, If he is really hungry after his nap he wakes up screaming.
Re: how does your baby wake up?
At night....he cries
during the day....he either cries or starts grunting until I take his blanket off and then he is happy.
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