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4:45 a.m. wake-up - help!
For the past week DS has been waking around 4:30/ 4:45, (seemingly) bright-eyed and busy-tailed, ready to go! He's standing up in his crib, crying (and then screaming) to get up.
What do we do? Is that middle of the night - as it feels to DH and I, who are definitely *not* morning people - and he needs to go back to sleep?
Or is DS simply starting to be an early riser? I mean, it's almost 5:00, which I suppose is an acceptable time for some people to get up . . .but not in this house! Plus, when I go back to work, I'll need to get up and ready before he does, and that just can't happen if he's going to get up so early.
As of about 2 weeks ago, he goes to bed between 6:30 and 7:15. Prior to that he went to bed between 7:15 and 7:45 - which I much prefer- but he started showing signs of needing to go to bed earlier. He wakes during the night if he can't find his paci or if he's teething, but otherwise he's consistently slept until 6:30 or 7:30 a.m., until recently.
This morning DH just laid him back down and kind of let him be. . . but DS just wouldn't calm down. Given the weird time of day, I'm not really sure what to do. Somehow force him to go back to sleep (and then most likely have to wake him up shortly thereafter to get ready for daycare), or let him get up for the day?
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Re: 4:45 a.m. wake-up - help!
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Hopefully its just a phase that you'll need to ride out. Jacob has patches like this. Occasionally, he'll be ready for the day around 5:30, which is just too early. I can only imagine how much earlier 4:45 must feel!
Generally, we do one of two things - go in there and try to calm him back to sleep telling him to lay down. Or we just ignore him and let him fuss. Neither one is fool proof an many times we just get annoyed and let him get up. Other times, he'll go back to sleep.
It usually is relatively short lived - a week, a couple of weeks, a month. Although those mornings feel like it has been going on forever.
Hazel went through that phase a few times. For awhile we would get up with her, then we tried bringing her in bed with us to get her back to sleep (which works about 50% of the time), and we've also tried letting her cry (which wakes her brother up about 50% of the time). Thankfully, it didn't last too long!
Um anything before 6am is middle of the night to me. 4:30 wake ups for the day, would put me over the edge. Especially if I've been up since 3:00 with Ava. Like if she eats at 3 and goes back down at 3:30 and then N wakes up an hour later? Ugh.
I would just go in to Nicholas (if he did wake up at that ungodly hour) and give him his paci, a drink of water, a random object (like a shoe- yes he's fallen asleep clutching a shoe) or a clock (a little travel one that he gets a hold of and won't let go) or a hairbrush. Hey whatever works. .