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Is my toddler the only one that wakes crying in the a.m.?
Liam wakes almost every morning and starts crying for me. I am trying to get him to sleep a little later (currently waking between 4:30-5:30), so I generally try to let him work it out, but after 15 minutes I just cant take it any longer. In my opinion, if he is waking and crying than he is still tired and should be sleeping. What do you think? Also, we have had the habit of him waking and having a sippy of milk immediately- I wonder if I should work to break this habit. Do you all give your LO milk first thing?
Thanks!
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Re: Is my toddler the only one that wakes crying in the a.m.?
Jones has been waking up at 4:30-5 every morning this week...vacation really effed up his sleep. We've been going in, and acting like we would if he woke up in the middle of the night....make sure he has his binky, put his blankie back on him and and rub his back (if that doesn't work we will pick him up and stand and sway until we can put him back down.). Only one of the mornings he wouldn't go back to sleep.
And he doesn't get anything some mornings until he has breakfast at daycare (maybe 1.5-2 hours after getting up). Some times he has a sippy of water and some mornings i give him a little snack as I am packing lunches (half a banana, strawberries, some string cheese or goldfish)
What time does he go to bed? Maybe he needs to go to bed a little later or have his nap shortened.
4:30-5 would not work for me and I would probably use ferber to put G back to sleep in addition to trying to adjust his daytime sleeping/bedtime.
Also, could it be a night terror or teething? G has been waking up lately screaming which I think is night terrors. He's also cutting his 2 year molars and cries in his sleep and eventually wakes himself up. I just go in and lay him down, give him his blanket and he usually goes right back to sleep.
Good luck. 4:30 parties are no fun
He has always gone to bed around 7pm. And he has never been the best sleeper. If he sleeps till 6:30 I throw a party. Maybe I will try pushing him back 30 minutes. He is generally ready for bed at 7pm (goes down without a fight and falls asleep immediately) but maybe I will try a little later bed time and see what happens. I am already worried about the time change as I know this could make this situation much much worse. Currently he only takes 1 nap at daycare from 12-2pm-- so I dont think it has anything to do with his naptime.
I might also try cutting out the morning milk. Or maybe I will give him a sippy to drink on the way to daycare- that way he is not expecting it immediately.
Somethings gotta give...I'm tired!
I think these both sound like a good starting point. G eats breakfast at daycare, but we do a sippy of milk at home right after he's dressed and comes downstairs. He sits on my lap and we snuggle and sometimes read - it's a really nice start to the day.
I think that sounds like it's worth a try. My toddler does get milk right after she wakes up (it's sort of simultaneous with breakfast but she usually drinks it before she eats her b-fast) but she also wakes up at a reasonable (defined by me!) hour of 8/8:30am. If she were to get up too early (like 4:30ish), I would not offer her milk at that time but try to get her back to sleep. Easier said than done though!
Nicholas wakes up crying too in the morning. I also think that he is still tired and needs to go back to sleep, but he won't. I miss the days when he would wake up talking and not wake up on "the wrong side of the crib".
Ava on the other hand wakes up all smiles and the only way I know she's awake is when I hear her babbling. I go in to her and she's kicking away and smiling.
Yes and yes. Very rarely does he wake up just talking. If it's before 6 I try to make him CIO. But, like you said, it rarely ever works. Yesterday he was up at 5:45. I let him CIO but he was still screaming at 6 and I couldn't take it any longer. I went in and got him. He'll usually fall back to sleep on/next to me in bed. Bad habit for sure. Up until a week or so ago he was sleeping "in" until 6:30-6:50 and was in a great mood. I'm not sure what's going on with him but I'm not a fan.
And he gets his juice with breakfast, which is right after he wakes up for the day. But not immediately when he wakes up.
You might try moving the milk to later. When I was BFing Daniel (after he was out of the newborn feedmenow months) I never nursed him before 7:30 because that was the time I wanted him to get up. I didn't want him to start waking FOR milk at 6:30. He gets up now between 7:15 and 7:45 usually. But we don't put him in bed until 8pm.
He doesn't wake up crying in the morning or after his first nap. But after his afternoon nap he wakes crying every time. It's so sad.
ours wake up crying no matter how late they sleep - I guess it's how they've learned to tell us they're awake. The toddler who wakes up happy and plays quietly in his crib until a parent comes to get him is kind of a mystery to me. (Lucas and Abby will sometimes sit quietly, but Zoey never does)
oh, and they get bottles of milk as soon as they wake up.
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Sam does this A. LOT. Usually it's because he's hungry. I try to get breakfast ready so that I can bring him to the kitchen and plop him in front of breakfast right away. This morning I actually did bring in a sippie of milk so he could get working on it right away. He's not the best breakfast eater and can stay really crabby all morning unless he eats/drinks enough.
I don't see the need to break that ritual.
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Duh, didn't read he is waking so early! Yeah, I'd treat that as an overnight wake up and let him CIO. But I'm a mean mommy that way
Can you try a bedtime snack before he goes down?
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At about 21 or 22 months old my girls went through a phase like this where they were trying to get up at like 5:30am and the normally woke up at 8am, so I was not pleased. I pulled out my Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child and he says at around this age some kids require less overnight sleep, but of course still need a good afternoon nap. So I moved bedtime back by 1/2 hour and things started to get better then started sleeping until 7am. After a week I moved it back another half hour and they started waking at 8am again. So overall my girls just needed 1 less hour of sleep overall and I preferred that be at night instead of early in the morning (I am not a morning person).
So I say try the 1/2 back for now and see if it helps.