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Breezy8407
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7 mo. old awake at 4am for the day. Help!
Breezy8407
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I wanted to give it some time because we recently started a new bedtime routine about a month ago and broke swaddles (I posted back when asking for advice if I should do both CIO and break swaddles at once or not - we did both so thank you!)
In general, going to bed has been okay. Bedtime is about 7pm. DS will usually go down drowsy and fall asleep on his own without waking. DD will usually wake up once crying, but we have gotten to a point where she will cry herself to sleep.
The problem....DS STILL wakes up for the day at 4am. We try to put him back to sleep, change diaper, etc. He will go back down for about 30 minutes if we are lucky. On weekends this isn't as big of a deal because we can feed him around 5:30 then we can all go back to bed. During the week, we wake up at 5:15 to get ready for work, so we can't really do much with him while we get ready and he ends up crying then waking his sister.
Fun fact: this weekend he slept until past 6:30am in the rock and play at my parents house. So I know he can do it, and I don't think it's related to hunger.
Neither of them nap very well at daycare, so this just starts a vicious cylce that leads to him being SO tired when they get home in the evening it's causing me anxiety since I am alone and there is a lot of crying.
Any advice? What am I missing?
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Re: 7 mo. old awake at 4am for the day. Help!
time.
magically around 14/15 mo mine started sleeping until 630/7 instead of 530/6.
in the meanwhile, you could try CIO. I'd also keep the lights off etc until a humane hour when you get up with him. Any chance he's going through a growth spurt though and maybe a bottle will get him back to sleep?
Any idea why they don't nap at daycare?
That's what we have been thinking. I am trying to be patient.
We do try to let him cry, usually he just lays there talking. No harm no foul, but it would be lovely to get some more sleep
I have debated on giving him a bottle, but am afraid it will start a bad habit. He seems to be able to sleep longer because he has done it on occasion. It may be a growth spurt...for sure.
They are hit or miss with naps at daycare. Occasionally they will take a one hour plus nap, but their norm us 30-40 minutes in the morning and again in the afternoon.
Boy/girl twins born at 37w1d and 37w2d
My 7.5 month olds have been going to sleep at 5-5.30 PM and waking at 5 for a few months. Then, just over a week ago, they started waking at 4:30, then 4. It was no huge deal, since they just want a bottle, a change, and go to sleep an hour later and sleep until 8 AM, but the earlier wake time was getting to me (so I feel your pain!!).
For the past week, we've tried DH's preferred method, which is making them nap at 5-6ish PM and then going to sleep later, around 7-7.30. His theory is, the later they go to sleep, the later they wake up. Well, no, it doesn't work like that, at least not with my babies. They have been waking up around 5 AM since, but still go to sleep an hour later and wake up at 8, so no real change for them. The only change is that I get less time in the evenings to do things without carrying a baby around with me. So, all in all, a giant failure.
Long story short, I have no solutions for you, only empathy