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Waking up at 5am everyday crabby- WTD?

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So, he WAS sleeping until about 7am (bed 7-7:30pm) but it's gotten earlier and earlier over the last 2 weeks.  Every couple of days it creeps up by 15 min. and this morning he was up at 5:09am.  I let him cry in there, but he's wide awake and doesn't lay back down.  But, then he's crabby and obviously tired.

WTD?  I tried putting him to bed earlier and that just had him up earlier.  I tried later but he's sooooo tired by 8pm that he's just a mess and still woke up at 5am.

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Re: Waking up at 5am everyday crabby- WTD?

  • hopefulmom81hopefulmom81 member

    Can you push his bedtime later by 10 minutes each night until you get around 8?

    How are his naps? 

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  • silvie25marsilvie25mar member
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    Can you push his bedtime later by 10 minutes each night until you get around 8? How are his naps?nbsp;

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  • erindawnerindawn member
    He naps 2 times a day, from 1-1/2/ hours each.  I started making sure the second nap is only 1 hour and he's usually up by 3:15pm so I'm worried making  bedtime later will be a looong time for him to be up.
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  • skibunny59skibunny59 member
    We are having the same problem.  We cosleep so letting her cry in her crib is not an option.  And I have to be up by 6 everyday to get ready for work and to get her ready for my mom's house so I'm really at a loss of what to do.  She used to sleep until 6.
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  • buzzbee24buzzbee24 member
    imagemichyme123:
    I count anything before 6am "middle of the night". This past week my LO has been waking up at 5am but I keep the lights off, feed/change him without making a peep and put him back to bed. He then sleeps until about 7:30am.
    Maybe try that?



    This works for us. And it seems recently he's been sleeping in later and later without our assistance. I think his sleep pattern is changing and maturing.
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  • stanfordt04stanfordt04 member

    I have accepted the five o' clock wake up hour. i have tried everything to get him back to sleep during that time of the morning, but he is just ready to be up even though he is a little more crabbier than usual. it does make for a REALLY long day though since his first nap is usually at 7:30 (the time when most babies wake up)

    but... he has been sleeping into the six o' clock hour over the past few days... could this be the new bedtime??

    i just go along with him... whatever time he wakes for the day, is the time we start our day. and i just am keeping my fingers crossed that the clock change will be in our favor!!! :)

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  • jsimmjsimm member

    I was just about to post the same problem!  Lilah has been on such a strict napping schedule because I teach at a cyber school from home, and my schedule is SO not flexible.  Last week she started waking up at 6:30/6:15. We went away for an overnight last Friday, and since then her entire sleep schedule has been crap.  She has been such a good sleeper, but started having night terrors again, and up around 4 every night.  Today we made it to 5:30, but she was WIDE AWAKE. I rocked her for a bit, and then put her back in bed. 

    Nap times have been awful.  Usually she goes down at 9, and sleeps till 10:30/11 ish, and takes another nap at 1.  My classes are at 9, 10, 11 and 1 so this worked really well for me.  The last few days however, when I put her down at 9, she has been playing in bed btw any where from 9:30-10:45. I feel terrible that she's in bed that long, but she used to sleep for that period of time. Everything was pushed back today, and she still slept for  2 hours each nap.  Oiy!  

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