How to push back wake up time

Magenta728 · June 2012

We sleep trained DD using Ferber months ago. It worked beautifully. Then, she got sick and afterwards, I had to re-sleep train her.

She goes to bed at 8/8:30. She wakes up at 5:30, I nurse her and she falls back to sleep until 7:30/8. I want to eliminate that 5:30 feeding, and just have her sleep straight untlil 7:30.

DH tried giving her a bottle this morning at 5:30 when she woke up, but she wouldn't go back to sleep until I nursed her. That is the only time she needs to be nursed to sleep. (not at night, not for naps).

How can I push it back?

rainstar752 · June 2012

This may not be what you want to hear, but DD used to have the same schedule, and I decided I wanted to drop the 5:30am feeding- well, now she wakes up for the day at 6am. I wish we had kept our schedule in some ways- it was nice when she slept until 7:30-8am. Her naps have gotten longer though because she doesn't sleep in so long.

So basically, I don't have any advice, just a cautionary tale that you might not be able to get her to sleep all the way to 7:30a if you drop that bottle.

11kacey · June 2012

I would put her down EARLIER, like an hour earlier and see where that gets you.

M goes to bed around 7:30 and sleeps until 6ish. I get up, we both eat, she goes back to sleep around 8am until 10am, then up again until 1ish and then asleep until 3ish.

LollyBug18 · June 2012

rainstar752:
This may not be what you want to hear, but DD used to have the same schedule, and I decided I wanted to drop the 5:30am feeding- well, now she wakes up for the day at 6am. I wish we had kept our schedule in some ways- it was nice when she slept until 7:30-8am. Her naps have gotten longer though because she doesn't sleep in so long.
So basically, I don't have any advice, just a cautionary tale that you might not be able to get her to sleep all the way to 7:30a if you drop that bottle.

We ran into almost the exact same thing here. I got her to drop that feed by basically refusing it and having her CIO again. She eventually stopped waking up around 5 but then would be up for the day around 6 or 6:30. But honestly, that did last long either before some new issue came up and then teething fun and just recently she was waking up multiple times in the night but then sleeping until 8 or 9. Last night was the first night all week that didn't happen but she still slept later than she used to so I don't know if that will stay the same or not. I just hope she gets a little more consistent before the new baby comes along! It's tiring!

Magenta728 · June 2012

LollyBug18:
rainstar752:

This may not be what you want to hear, but DD used to have the same schedule, and I decided I wanted to drop the 5:30am feeding- well, now she wakes up for the day at 6am. I wish we had kept our schedule in some ways- it was nice when she slept until 7:30-8am. Her naps have gotten longer though because she doesn't sleep in so long.

So basically, I don't have any advice, just a cautionary tale that you might not be able to get her to sleep all the way to 7:30a if you drop that bottle.

We ran into almost the exact same thing here. I got her to drop that feed by basically refusing it and having her CIO again. She eventually stopped waking up around 5 but then would be up for the day around 6 or 6:30. But honestly, that did last long either before some new issue came up and then teething fun and just recently she was waking up multiple times in the night but then sleeping until 8 or 9. Last night was the first night all week that didn't happen but she still slept later than she used to so I don't know if that will stay the same or not. I just hope she gets a little more consistent before the new baby comes along! It's tiring!

Oh man. I definitely don't want her waking up for the day that early. I have to figure out how to get her back to sleep without nursing. I am in the process of weaning, and I know that that's gonna be the hardest feeding to eliminate.

march2008 · June 2012

I did not wean DD from night-feedings. I let her wean herself when she was ready and she did so right around 10/11 months on her own. When she was waking up during the night previously to BF (it was once per night ever since around 6 months of age and always at a random time every night), she would go to bed around 8 pm, wake up the 1 time to BF, and then she would not wake up for the day until between 7 and 7:30 am.

Now that she's stopped waking up to BF, she still goes to bed at 8 pm, but wakes up for the day around 6:15 am. Personally, I don't mind her waking up that early since I now get to have a really long, solid block of sleep now that she's no longer waking to BF during the night.

I honestly don't know if/how you can adjust their wake-up time. When DD was around 7 months old, she began waking up at 5 am for the day and I could not for the life of me get her to sleep in later than that. It happened for about a month and then she just started sleeping in later on her own. After that experience, I just go with the flow and I've given up trying to mess with her sleep.

jporqueler · June 2012

I know this doesn't help but you just have to let it run its course. I am a teacher and during the school year would wake LO up at 6:30. Now that it is summer I want her to sleep in and for the first week it was 6:30, then 7:00, now i can consistently say that it is atleast 7:30ish and sometimes after 8.

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