How can I get my son to sleep later than 5am?

ncarpenter2 · February 2012

Any suggestions ladies? My 7 month old (next week) is doing much better sleeping than two months ago. He used to be up three to five times a night and needed to be rocked to sleep. He's down without a fight between 7:15 - 7:45, up once to nurse and then for the day between 5:00 - 5:45. Is there anything we can do to stretch that to 6:00 - 6:30?

Thank you!

jlsimon56 · February 2012

Sounds counter-intuitive, but try an earlier bedtime. My LO is the same age and she passed out before 7 last night (usual bedtime is 7-7:30ish) and slept awesome. I read that at this age, they should be getting 11.5ish hours at night and 3.5ish hours for naps. My LO naps horribly at daycare (yesterday was 1.5 hours TOTAL) so she needed more sleep. So add up your LO's sleep - total should be 14ish hours.

fancynewbeesly · February 2012

Not much. At least with us. Our DD goes to bed at 6pm, and sleeps through until about 5:30am. However unless she is hurt or extremely upset, I don't get her until at least 6am. (mostly because we are getting ready for work) She usually will play by herself in the crib until then. Some days after about 20 minutes of playing, she will fall back to sleep.

Dreamsicle23 · February 2012

Don't get him! DS started waking at 4, and I basically had to let him CIO for 2 hours for a week straight ...but after that we never had an early wake up again. He's now 19 months and just chills in his crib and waits for me to come get him in the morning.

jetskreemr · February 2012

Dreamsicle23:
Don't get him! DS started waking at 4, and I basically had to let him CIO for 2 hours for a week straight ...but after that we never had an early wake up again. He's now 19 months and just chills in his crib and waits for me to come get him in the morning.

We sort of do this. Our LO wakes crying around 4-5am. We mix up a formula bottle quick and run in and just feed her in her crib. She is usually asleep again by the time she finishes the bottle, and she sleeps a few more hours and is up between 7-8am for the day. She wakes and lays in her crib playing and babbling for awhile until we come and get her.

jetskreemr · February 2012

Dreamsicle23:
Don't get him! DS started waking at 4, and I basically had to let him CIO for 2 hours for a week straight ...but after that we never had an early wake up again. He's now 19 months and just chills in his crib and waits for me to come get him in the morning.

We sort of do this. Our LO wakes crying around 4-5am. We mix up a formula bottle quick and run in and just feed her in her crib. She is usually asleep again by the time she finishes the bottle, and she sleeps a few more hours and is up between 7-8am for the day. She wakes and lays in her crib playing and babbling for awhile until we come and get her.

march2008 · February 2012

Personally, I think it's just a stage. DD did that for a couple of weeks starting shortly after she hit the 6 month mark. I started reading about it a lot on the June 2011 board that I frequently read. It seems like it was a very common concern on there. DH and I were doing the Good Night Sleep Tight training method - Sleep Lady Shuffle and the author recommended going into her room and trying to soothe her back to sleep up until 6 am, if she wouldn't go back to sleep, we were to leave for sixty seconds and then do a dramatic wake-up after that if she didn't go back to sleep. We did that for about 2 weeks and then gave up because it totally wasn't working.

ETA: Lately, if DD wakes up to nurse once during the night, it's at 4 am and then she'll sleep until about 6:30 am. If she doesn't wake to nurse, she'll be up for the day at 5:30 am. I've just started getting her up whenever she gets up.

nfrtny · February 2012

Pushing DS's bedtime to between 7 and 8 instead of 6 and 7 has really helped to get him to wake less during the night and to get him to sleep in longer. But, everybody baby is different.

You're probably just going to have to try some things and see what works. But, if he's only waking once at night to nurse, honestly I probably wouldn't mess with it.

katie4253 · February 2012

He sounds like he's just an early riser. Our LO is in bed at 6:30-7 and up at 5-6. It's just the way he rolls. We've tried to keep him up longer to see if he sleeps later and it backfires. He wakes up at the same time and he is an angry little beast the entire rest of the day the next day because he is so tired.

BabyBoyNYC · February 2012

I have a bottle and formula by the nightstand mix it and lay him bed with me as soon as he finishes it he throws it down rolls over and sleeps till 7 it is the cutest thing

tiff012982 · February 2012

sometimes she gets up this early, but my "rule" is before 6am, back to bed. I feed her (she is starving if she won't go back down) and then put her back in her crib. 9 times out of 10 she is back to sleep within 20 min from the time I take her out of her crib. She will then sleep till 7:30ish. Lately she has been getting up at 6-6:30am. It was 7-7:30am. I am still waiting and praying that it goes back to 7am

ncarpenter2 · February 2012

Thank you ladies, I'm going to try a little bit of everything!

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