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Is it Possible to Move LO's 4:30 wake up time to 5:30?

jaimevogtjaimevogt member
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Overall I'm pretty happy with LOs (20 weeks) sleeping pattern. He goes down at 9 and wakes up at 4:30, then I nurse him and he falls asleep again until 7 or 8. 

I need to get up at 6 a.m. for work. So if I am able to fall back to sleep at the 4:30 feeding, its usually so painful to get again after that little nap, I just end up starting my day at 4:30. And am exhausted by end of the work day. 

This is fine- I know it comes with the territory. But I Would LOVE-love-love if he could sleep one tiny hour longer, then I could just wake up and start my day at 5:30 and it would make all the difference. 

Anyone have any luck moving their time back and hour? Putting him to bed at 10 seems kind of late 

He eats a ton before bed as it is (5 or more minutes of BFing + 6 oz formula.)

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Re: Is it Possible to Move LO's 4:30 wake up time to 5:30?

  • rjeller32rjeller32 member

    Honestly, if there is anyway, I have yet to find it, and I have been going on 2 years of a 4:30/5ish wake up time with my 2.5 year old. Keeping them up doesn't work, moving a feeding closer to bedtime didn't work (for me), threats. Nothing. Ha. I have just come to accept it, and am hoping she eventually grows out of it.

    I wouldn't put to bed at 10, that's pretty late, and you risk making LO overtired which is sucky to get to sleep. 

    On a side of hope, when is his last nap? Maybe it's too close to bedtime? I try to not let my 19 week old sleep past 4/5ish in the evening on her 2 o clock nap. Maybe moving the last nap to earlier could work for your LO?

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  • kjsmith9kjsmith9 member
    What about moving bedtime to 7 or 8? DD is 23 weeks and her bedtime routine starts between 630 and 7pm depending on when she starts to rub her eye and fuss. Her sleep has been a bit chaotic lately, but her normal pattern has been down around 730, up to feed around 1 or 2am, and then DH wakes her at 615 to get her ready for daycare. I wake up at 5am, and every so often she'll wake up at 4am to eat... I know how you feel being stuck with whether to just stay awake or going back to sleep for 30 minutes and feeling even worse!
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  • littlebean4littlebean4 member
    I'm not sure at what age they can actually sleep through the night "without"  a feeding, but whenever I wanted to move a feeding I would just continuously skip it for a few days to a week and eventually DD would stop waking up at that time. 
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  • Theresa+MiguelTheresa+Miguel
    My lo wakes up at 6:30, but occasionally tries to move it up to 4:30 and then wake again at 6:30 for more. I let it slide the first night or two, but on the third I make her wait510 minutes. Sometimes she falls back asleep, sometimes she doesn't, but she ALWAYS sleeps through to 6:30 the next morning. It's like she decides it is not worth it or something. I would also caution against putting her to bed later, I've read this will have the opposite effect. Instead, try putting her to bed earlier. Sounds backwards but it really works.
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    5 to 10 minutes
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  • mben1119mben1119 member
    Don't push bedtime back. LO will grow out of this. DS did this to me for a while around your LO's age. My recommendation? Coffee. Mainline it if you need to :)
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