Early risers

AmySmolos · June 2013

DS goes to bed around 7 every night. The past month he's been waking up somewhere in the 5 o'clock hour constantly. I always leave him in his crib until 6. I have tried pushing his bedtime to 7:30 or 8 even but he's still up! He naps at 8 or 8:30 for 1.5 to 2 hours consistently. Is there anything I can do to get my child to wake up at 7 or even at 6 would be better then this 5 or 5:30 business!

brandyleighxx · June 2013

No tricks here, just sympathy. DS has always been an early riser. About 5am is the best we can get. I need to be up around 5:30 to get ready for work, anyhow, and we all go to bed early too, but on my days off he used to go back to sleep after his 1st morning bottle at 6am. The past couple weeks, forget it. He wakes up around 5 and won't nap until around 7 or 8. It also didn't matter for us to put him to bed late, he still wakes early.

Manda-Kay · June 2013

I guess I'll stop complaining about my child getting up between 6 and 6:30. Sending you virtual coffee!

brandyleighxx · June 2013

meredithcole:
Stalking this thread because DS is on the exact same sleep pattern as your LO. Bed at 7 pm and up anywhere from 5 to 5:30 am. It's really starting to wear on me. I dare say it's worse than the motn wakings. Sorry no advice, just more sympathy.

I completely disagree! I love having a solid 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep a night.

CRey13 · June 2013

D has always been an early riser. It's a little after 4:30 on the west coast and I'm trying to get him back down for at least an hour. The last week he has been messing with his sleep schedule. Goes to bed at 9 instead of 7, wakes up twice in the MOTN and then up for the day in the 5 o'clock hour. I'm exhausted!

AmySmolos · June 2013

He has been doing so much better with his sleep and either STTN or only wakes once to quickly eat. I just miss him sleeping until 7 especially on the weekends when I could sleep too. I thought leaving him to fuss and stand, sit, play with his lovey, pull whatever he can find near his crib in through the slats, etc would help him learn that wake up isn't until at least 6 but no such luck. DH and i always tell him paybacks a bish and when he's a teen we will be waking him up at 5. DS just laughs and goes back to being cute...obviously he's not scared of us!

Toni79 · June 2013

brandyleighxx:

meredithcole:
Stalking this thread because DS is on the exact same sleep pattern as your LO. Bed at 7 pm and up anywhere from 5 to 5:30 am. It's really starting to wear on me. I dare say it's worse than the motn wakings. Sorry no advice, just more sympathy.

I completely disagree! I love having a solid 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep a night.

I'd kill for 8 hours of uninterupted sleep! Actually I'd kill for 5-6 hours of uninterupted sleep! Who am I kidding, these days I'm happy when she goes 4 hours at night without waking!

DD has her bedtime nursing at 8:00 pm, and is asleep in her crib by 8:20. We have anywhere from 1-3 MOTN feedings (varries from night to night).

As far as wake time ... this is what gets me ... DD and I leave for work at 6:00 (preferably before 6:00). So at 5:45 ish, I have to WAKE her, change her diaper, and nurse. We send her to the sitter's (my cousin) in her PJs and she goes back to sleep there until 7:30 ish. Usually my cousin has to wake her up at 7:30! (She's awake for 30-40 minutes between me getting her up and being laied back down at the sitter's).

So you would think on weekends I'd get to sleep in until 7:30, right? Wrong! She wakes on her own between 5:45-6:00, and no matter what I can't get her to go back to sleep! I'll change her, nurse her, and lay her back down, but she wants nothing to do with going back to sleep! I'm half tempted to drive her around for 15 minutes and then bring her home and lay her down to see if that works. That way it would be more like her weekday routine!

Between the MOTN feedings and her getting up on weekends before 6 am, I am spent!

mrs mosby · June 2013

With DD1 I found that the earlier she went to bed the later she slept. Really weird but it worked. When she was 10 months her bedtime was 6 and she normally slept until 6:30 when I had to wake her to get ready for daycare.

Could your LO go to bed a half hour earlier and see if that helps?

shakinros · June 2013

I'm sorry to say it, but I don't think there is. DD goes through phases, seems to be 2 to 3 weeks at a time of changing when she wakes up. Sometimes 7am, sometimes 615, sometimes 545. She'll do it consistently for several weeks. Then suddenly start waking at a different time.

My mom said I never consistently slept past 5am until I started kindergarten. I just wasn't tired enough until I was attending full day school and no longer napping. I want to apologize to her every time DD wakes before 6!

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