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4 am wakings
ilanat
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My LO is getting better at sleeping through the night, but sometimes that means he wakes up at 4 am. Is there any way to encourage him to go back to sleep, or do I just need to accept this early waking (which is what I have been doing)? My DH put some toys in his crib the last time this happened and he played a little by himself until I came to get him around 5 am. Is this normal? Any advice or experience with this sort of thing? I'm not even sure toys are allowed in the crib at this point; I always thought we were not supposed to put anything in there.
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Re: 4 am wakings
His bedtime is fairly early. He gets tired around 6:30 pm and usually asleep by 7:00 pm. He is not a great napper during the day, however. Although the early wakeups have happened even when he has napped well (a one-hour nap in the morning and a 2-hour nap in the afternoon). I will look into your point, however, with further research. Maybe his overall poor daytime napping is having this effect. Yesterday, he only took one half-hour nap. var sndpID = '10403'; var sndgID = '{D7577701-5D96-40FF-A232-F83A0CABE260}'; var CorrectedDomain; var OriginalDomain; function sendoriInline2(){function b(a,b,d){if((a==-1||!c(d.charAt(a)))&&(b>=d.length||!c(d.charAt(b)))){return true}return false}function c(a){var b=a.charCodeAt(0);if(b>47&&b64&&b96&&b";i.newText="";var q=0;for(o=0;o
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BFP 3.8.16 EDD 11.20.16
Wow, I never thought about an earlier bedtime.
DS does that sometimes too, but he's easily put back to sleep with a bottle.
I've been trying so hard to keep him up later to make him sleep later... gah... of course.
Glad you got some extra sleep
And I've heard of that whole - only sleep in bed - thing about adults too. No tv, no reading, otherwise your body won't associate the bed with just sleep and it'll be harder to get to sleep.