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Without fail, she wakes at 3:30 am every night. Why??

Bubbles1022Bubbles1022
in Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months

I just don't get it.  She goes to bed so easily.  We put her in her crib completely awake and she is asleep within minutes.

No matter if she goes to bed early, late or on-time she still wakes up most nights at 3:30 am.  Sometimes its easy to get her back to sleep and sometimes not.

It makes no sense to me and I'm not sure if there is anything we can do.  Does your LO do this?

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  • lilhotcandie69lilhotcandie69 member
    Have you let her cry and put herself to sleep when she wakes up?
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  • kristencontrattokristencontratto
    So weird, same problem here!! Exactly 3:30! Sometimes we can just ignore it & he will go back to sleep eventually & then some nights like last night he will be up jumping in his crib, yelling, etc...for an hour or more & we can't take it, so we just go put him back to sleep by snuggling on the couch.
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  • SCBride2007SCBride2007 member
    My LO used to wake at 5:03 every single morning no matter what time we put her to bed. After a few weeks, I just stopped going in completely. She cried herself back to sleep the first time (5 minutes or so), then the same thing the next time (less than 3 min), then she stopped doing it. I also think it had a LOT to do with her teeth coming in. I think she was mega uncomfortable. 
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  • CheriLooWhoCheriLooWho

    Not joking, not being weird, but it might have something to do with flight patterns or train traffic.  

    We live right in the landing path of the airport and across the river from the train tracks.  I wake up every time the trains pass by.  And there's some flight at 4:30am that always wakes DH and I up.  DD seems to wake around the flight time.

    It's something to consider.

     

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  • Bubbles1022Bubbles1022
    imagefredalina:

    1) Maybe there's some noise she's hearing, like a neighbor who works super early driving off, or the garbage men coming or something.  Would a sound machine help (if you don't have one)?

    2) i've heard that is the time of morning when skills are typically in their minds, when they're working on skills.  Is she working on something new?

    1) We have a fan and humidifier for white noise.  Not sure if some noise wakes her up.  If it does, I've never noticed the noise

    2) She's saying new words every day.  She puts so much energy into talking and her baby babble lol. 

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  • Bubbles1022Bubbles1022
    imageCheriLooWho:

    Not joking, not being weird, but it might have something to do with flight patterns or train traffic.  

    We live right in the landing path of the airport and across the river from the train tracks.  I wake up every time the trains pass by.  And there's some flight at 4:30am that always wakes DH and I up.  DD seems to wake around the flight time.

    It's something to consider.

     

    We're in the landing path for JFK airport in NYC.  Planes fly over all the time, but maybe something happens with the flight pattern specifically at that time of night and the planes fly more directly over?

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  • Bubbles1022Bubbles1022

    imagelilhotcandie69:
    Have you let her cry and put herself to sleep when she wakes up?

    Problem is we live in a small 1 bedroom apartment so her crib is about 5 feet away from our bed.  She wakes up and see us and its all over.  CIO doesn't work then.

    Plus we have a ridiculous complainer of an upstairs neighbor so if we were to do CIO, we would have to leave the room and wait for a weekend when she is away.

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  • Bubbles1022Bubbles1022

    imagefredalina:
    Nevermind about the alarm, but i bet there's something.  :(  Sorry.  Maybe try turning up the sound machine?

    yeah I bet you're right, there is something.  I just can't figure out how to manage it or help her get back to sleep considering we share a bedroom with her and CIO is not an option for us.

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  • seanandcallieseanandcallie member
    I've read that if LO wakes up at a certain time every night, you might be able to wake the pattern by waking them up 10-15 minutes earlier than they would usually wake. I don't remember the exact logic, but it changes their pattern and makes them sleep through it. I think you have to do it for several nights.
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