LO waking up really early?

mrs.lizzieb · June 2013

For the past few weeks, DD has been waking at 4:45am on the dot. Her usual wakeup was around 6/6:30am prior to this. I've tried giving her 2 naps instead of her regular 1 midday nap, tried putting her down earlier and later for bed, tried room-darkening shades, etc. Nothing seems to be working. She's resisting the two nap thing, so she's napping 10-11:30 and is exhausted by evening and going to bed at 5;30pm. I wish I could just pick up and move the schedule by an hour or so. I'm hoping this is just a phase, because wakeup before 6am seems too early. Any advice?

wilsontl19191 · June 2013

I have no advice but wanted to say we just went through the exact same thing. Finally, after about 2 weeks, he's back on track. But, now he refuses to go to bed at night. If it's not one thing, it's the other.

cantalopes24 · June 2013

I woke up between 4:30 and 5:30 am from 2 until I was at least like 5. And by awake I mean my mom would put on Mickey Mousercise and I would stand at the foot of their bed and workout lmao. Fortunately my parents were military and DoD and either had to be up early or at least could go into work anyway. 22 years later my mom never recovered her sleeping ability and is dropping of MH, Dad and brother at the airport at 5 am next Thursday an on her way to work lol.

LatteLady5 · June 2013

You poor thing! 4:45 is early! Do you have any toys in her crib or books or anything. For naps N gets a couple of books and her regular sleeping buddies, her baby, backpack (attached to Dora but backpack is apparently cooler) and her bunny. I've heard her wake up and she'll cry a minute and then play or read and go back to sleep.

blu-eyedwife · June 2013

cantalopes24:
I woke up between 4:30 and 5:30 am from 2 until I was at least like 5. And by awake I mean my mom would put on Mickey Mousercise and I would stand at the foot of their bed and workout lmao. .

You sound like my brother! He was a 4am-er, so at some point my parents left cheerios at ground level and taught him how to turn on the television. They put it on The Disney Channel before they went to bed and he would get up, get some cheerios, and watch cartoons.

No advice here, just a welcome to the club. LBB has been waking between 5 and 5:30 for the past month. I miss the little guy who slept till 6:45/7!

ababymaybe · June 2013

Is she teething? Our wakeups creep earlier when teeth are coming in.

What do you do when she wakes? My DS likes to wake early and I have to take a firm stance with it. I will leave for 20 minutes or so. If he's still up, I go into his room and tell him it's still nighttime, go back to sleep. I do NOT get him up for the day before 6:30. Sounds harsh, but it inevitably creeps earlier and earlier and earlier if I don't draw a line in the sand. Sometimes he wakes just before six and plays happily for a good half hour before I get him up.

mrs.lizzieb · June 2013

Thanks for the feedback ladies. We don't have any toys in her crib besides her stuffed bunny. We used to, but when we sleep trained her at 15mo, we were advised to take everything out. And I've tried to use the sleep training techniques we used back in Jan, but she goes ape-$hit and starts screaming bloody-murder. I'm afraid she'll wake DS in the next room, so I've been getting her out. It could possibly be her teeth...didn't even think of that for some reason. She's getting new molars in I think, and she's been crazy beastly for the past couple weeks so maybe that is it. I'll wait it out, and pray that she's just not an early early bird by nature. Thanks for your help and suggestions!

christiney06 · June 2013

What do you do when she wakes? My DS likes to wake early and I have to take a firm stance with it. I will leave for 20 minutes or so. If he's still up, I go into his room and tell him it's still nighttime, go back to sleep. I do NOT get him up for the day before 6:30. Sounds harsh, but it inevitably creeps earlier and earlier and earlier if I don't draw a line in the sand. Sometimes he wakes just before six and plays happily for a good half hour before I get him up.

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this is what I did with my son also. The Ferber book suggests the same. I would put white noise on your sons room to drown her out. If you keep getting her, she'll keep on waking up that early.

mrs.lizzieb · June 2013

christiney06:

What do you do when she wakes? My DS likes to wake early and I have to take a firm stance with it. I will leave for 20 minutes or so. If he's still up, I go into his room and tell him it's still nighttime, go back to sleep. I do NOT get him up for the day before 6:30. Sounds harsh, but it inevitably creeps earlier and earlier and earlier if I don't draw a line in the sand. Sometimes he wakes just before six and plays happily for a good half hour before I get him up.
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this is what I did with my son also. The Ferber book suggests the same. I would put white noise on your sons room to drown her out. If you keep getting her, she'll keep on waking up that early.

As of late, I'm going in after about 15min of crying for fear that she'll wake DS up. When we sleep trained her, I did the same thing as you and if she woke up too early would go in, pat her back, lay her back down and say "Time for night-night". It worked, but this was when she wasn't getting almost a full 12 hours of sleep at night. Now that she's getting 11 hours of nighttime sleep, she's ready to rumble this early. This morning she woke up at 5:30am so that's a definite improvement. Crossing my fingers this is just a phase.

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