MOTN waking---same time every night?

jg1011 · May 2013

V has a predictable wake-up every night between 4:30 and 4:45. Thankfully all it takes now is me going in doing a quick soothe and giving paci back (as opposed to crying for an extended time) and he's back to sleep.

Anyone deal with this? How (Can I?) stop this? Or will he eventually just grow out of it?

I'm so used to it now I automatically wake a few minutes before him each night. Usually I can go right back to sleep so it's not too bad. Tonight I'm up.

shella923 · May 2013

I don't know but I've been up since 415 too !!!! Watching Conan reruns. I ended up changing her diaper and rocking M in rocking chair... Still cried . Hmmm ... Quiet right now ... Dare I dream?!

BabyMakes 3 · May 2013

Yup! Usually 3 or 4 every night. He eats and sleeps till 6 or 7. I don't mind it. Pedi said its habit but I don't think so. He sometimes STTN so I feel like there's some progress and he will stop waking when he doesn't need it anymore

karkissy09 · May 2013

Hallie was very predictable prior to 4 months and has just recently gotten more predictable again. Have you tried seeing if he'll go back to sleep on his own? I'm sure he'll outgrow it soon if you're not feeding him at that time but I understand how frustrating that break in your sleep cycle can be.

kb&mb · May 2013

Can he get his own paci? Noah doesn't use one often but I leave his WubbaNub in the crib near him and these last 2 nights of MOTN CIO, he has been grabbing it himself.

I've heard people say to leave a few in there so they can get it themselves.

Are you willing to try CIO? It definitely just sounds like a habit and one that could probably be broken pretty easily.

FigureSkater8 · May 2013

Acc.to the Baby Whisperer, try preemptively waking him like 30 min before he usually wakes, then soothe back to sleep....then he won't wake again at that time and you're changing the habit. You keep moving the preemptive wake time back until you phase out and by then he's no longer waking at that habit time...

Havent had to use it myself...

zmoss · May 2013

Yup, LJ's is usually 1:30am. That moved to 4:45am when he started STTN.

Last night we were back to 4:45am--yay!

kerrigrooves · May 2013

glad its not just us! C wakes up now at 4 am and talks and eventually starts to cry. Sometimes I can sush her or she'll go back on her own, then she's up and hungry at 5:15 am.

Im going to ask the pedi about it at her 6 mo appt on tues

jg1011 · May 2013

kb&mb:
Can he get his own paci? Noah doesn't use one often but I leave his WubbaNub in the crib near him and these last 2 nights of MOTN CIO, he has been grabbing it himself.
I've heard people say to leave a few in there so they can get it themselves.
Are you willing to try CIO? It definitely just sounds like a habit and one that could probably be broken pretty easily.

We did CIO....worked great for us, except this wake time. I tried letting it go through CIO process but have learned that I'm in for a long 2 hours if I don't just go in and put paci in. (There are several in crib but he doesn't grab them yet). If I go and put paci in after letting it go just a few minutes to see if he'll go back on his own, then he goes right back to sleep and usually so do I!

Was just curious to see if this was just us. Tried feeding him and he only takes about 2 ounces so I don't think he's hungry.

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