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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
ReeseM
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I seriously can't take it anymore
ReeseM
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DD wakes up at 5 or 5:30 every morning, for the last 3 weeks. I have done everything. Leter bedtime, earlier, 2 naps, one nap. For a while when she only took one nap, she would sleep later, but no more. She's on to me.
I can't get up this early forever. And the time changes in a day. So yes, it will be me on here, at 4 am. Forever. It's my fate.
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Re: I seriously can't take it anymore
I thought about this too, but I'm not ready to give it up! J/k, but seriously, 4 am will not do after DST kicks in.
we are in the same boat, only it is generally 4 am over here. it sucks.
i was combating it with a ton of caffeine but now that i am pregnant, i can't. i am so damn tired.
DD's normal wake time has always been no later than 6am, for what seemed like months she was getting up between 4:30 and 5:30 and I thought I was going to lose my mind. She has never needed as much sleep as most babies and once she started to go down to one nap she has finally for the first time in her life started to sleep till 7am (now if only I could get myself to not wake at 5:30!). While she sleeps like 11 hours now at night, this means only 1-1.5 hour total for naps during the day.
Maybe your DD doesn't need as much sleep during the day, while this might not be ideal for you as far as getting a break during the day at least she might sleep in later.
Exactly the same situation here. This changed several months ago in our house, and I tried everything myself....
It's true what PP says about just learning to accept it.
BUT... we have recently employed a new strategy that we're trying out. I wasn't going to post about it until I gave it enough time to know if it's a pass or fail, but since so many of you are struggling like us, here goes:
We got a CD player/alarm clock for DS's room. For the past two mornings, we have set it to start playing music (soft, soothing lullabies) around his usual wake-up time. Yesterday it was 5:20, and today we pushed it back to 5:30. Our thinking is that we want him to associate the music with time to get up, and we want to teach him that we WILL come to get him when the music plays - that he can trust us! (Because usually he cries - another thing we're hoping to change.) We figure we'll keep pushing the time back each day by 5-10 minutes... very gradually. We are SO hoping this will work!
Because, dammit, I REFUSE to start my day at 4am! Being up for 4 hours before I even GO TO WORK is freaking ridiculous. Please let this work... please?
Okay, I know this may be a highly unpopular comment, but what if you just didn't go get them? Would they learn it's not time to get up and just go back to sleep or amuse themselves? And then eventually they'd stop trying to get up so early?
I actually speak from a bit of inexperience, but my DD doesn't usually wake up until 8:00 or 8:30 and if she wakes up before then, I just don't get her. To clarify, she doesn't cry and cry and cry. I just hear her talking or calling for me and if I don't get her, she settles back down to sleep or at least to quiet play (I can check on her from the video monitor).