What time does LO wake up?

Mum2Be28 · June 2014

I'm just curious what time your LOs wake up and start the day. I know this can change often due to so many things (teething, illness, meeting milestones, etc), but let's just say what time on average over the last few weeks?

Wynn has been starting the day at 5- 5:30 for about the last 5-6 weeks. Just wondering if this is going to be his regular schedule or if it's a sleep regression thing at this age.

Karadee1 · June 2014

I voted 7am-ish, but that is a recent development. He had been waking around 6, but we also just moved him to his own room so I think that is helping. We have also been working with daycare to get him on somewhat of a nap schedule, so he takes two hour long naps a day now - I think this is also helping, as he isn't overtired at the end of the day. He goes down around 8pm each night.

Mum2Be28 · June 2014

braasche1 said:
I voted SS. During the week he is usually up between 5-6:30am, but on the weekends he usually is up for the day around 630-730. He is asleep by 8:15pm everyday, so I'm guessing that the extra noise and movement from us getting ready for work in the mornings, contributes to him getting up earlier through the week.

This used to be similar to us. Wynn would wake up during the week between 6 and 6:45 (totally doable for me) and I think a lot of that depended on when DH's alarm went off and he got up and started making noise. Because on the weekends he would sleep til almost 7:30 since there was no alarm. But now it's like 5:00 every day. Today it was 4:15!! No teeth yet so I'm just hoping this is teeth related.

I've tried putting him to bed later but he freaks out. He wants to be in the bed by 7:00.

Naps are ok-- he takes about a 40 min nap at 7:30 (since he's up so early) and then a longer nap around 10. And then one more 40min to an hour nap around 2. And then asleep at 7pm and sleeps straight through. So doesn't seem to be an over tired thing.

If anyone can diagnose my child please do so!

fitmama418 · June 2014

She wakes up anywhere between 5:15-6. Every day. And on weekends. "Sleeping in" doesn't exist anymore.

mskatiep · June 2014

She normally wakes up around 6:30ish because she is having a huge poop. If she doesn't wake herself from pooping, I will go in and wake her around 6:40 so we can get out of the house on time.
The weekends are the same, she will sleep till she poops, so the latest is probably 7:30 on average.

Mum2Be28 · June 2014

@fitmama418‌
Did she used to wake up later?

fluttergirlmoonchild79 · June 2014

fitmama418 said:

She wakes up anywhere between 5:15-6. Every day. And on weekends. "Sleeping in" doesn't exist anymore.

Same here. I miss sleeping in on the weekends. Only DH does that anymore (and pisses me off)

Jennybabe0706 · June 2014

M used to sleep until about 8:00ish but once I went back to work and had to get her out of the house every morning, she ended up on a schedule of anywhere between 6:30-7:00. Why don't babies understand the concept of sleeping in on the weekend?!

tisunge602 · June 2014

Mum2Be28 said:

I voted SS. During the week he is usually up between 5-6:30am, but on the weekends he usually is up for the day around 630-730. He is asleep by 8:15pm everyday, so I'm guessing that the extra noise and movement from us getting ready for work in the mornings, contributes to him getting up earlier through the week.
This used to be similar to us. Wynn would wake up during the week between 6 and 6:45 (totally doable for me) and I think a lot of that depended on when DH's alarm went off and he got up and started making noise. Because on the weekends he would sleep til almost 7:30 since there was no alarm. But now it's like 5:00 every day. Today it was 4:15!! No teeth yet so I'm just hoping this is teeth related. I've tried putting him to bed later but he freaks out. He wants to be in the bed by 7:00. Naps are ok-- he takes about a 40 min nap at 7:30 (since he's up so early) and then a longer nap around 10. And then one more 40min to an hour nap around 2. And then asleep at 7pm and sleeps straight through. So doesn't seem to be an over tired thing. If anyone can diagnose my child please do so!

Could you gradually move his bedtime later by 15 minutes a day or every other day? Maybe if he had like an 8:00 bedtime he'd at least sleep til 6....

But TBH, if he is sleeping through the night I wouldn't complain too much! A is still up 2-3 times a night.

kimmycup · June 2014

fitmama418 said:

She wakes up anywhere between 5:15-6. Every day. And on weekends. "Sleeping in" doesn't exist anymore.

Same.

beccaxbooxbear · June 2014

Most days he wakes at 7 but a few times he'll wake at like 8 or 9 if he sleeps on his own until about 530 then I bring him into bed hoping for a little more sleep

KatieintheCity · June 2014

He's usually up around 6-6:15, but this week he's been sleeping later. I think he's going through a growth spurt. I've been having to get him up around 6:45 to leave on time. Over the weekend he slept until 7 both days.

fitmama418 · June 2014

Mum2Be28 said:

@fitmama418‌ Did she used to wake up later?

Nope. Never. I mean, when she was a newborn I'm sure one of her sleep stretches was from like 5:30-8 but that's it.

mwhipple77 · June 2014

There needs to be an option for too effing early. I voted 6am ish, but whenever I get up for the day, E wakes up as well. She doesn't realize she can sleep after I get out of bed. Although I'm sure the bed moving (we bed share) and my body warmth is what wakes her up. So it's usually anywhere between 5:15 and 5:45 Monday through Friday. Weekends I get up when she wakes up, anywhere between 6 and 7 normally.

rbtrumpet · June 2014

I try to put L to bed at 7:30, but usually she's whining for bed by 7. She usually wakes up somewhere between 1 and 3 for food (and maybe a second time for comfort, but not usually - this was like a switch at 6 months, 4 weeks ago, she was still waking up 4 times/night!). Then she's usually up at 5:20-30.

I'd love to get her to bed later so she'll sleep in later, but she's a total grump after 7pm!

Zilly13 · June 2014

I voted SS because DD is up by 4:30/4:45 for the day. It's rough.

McJen715 · June 2014

JoeLies said:
Will that ever stop, by the way?

My older DD (3 1/2) would sleep until 9-10 if I let her now, and she used to always be up by 6-7. At first it freaked me out but now I'm not phased by it!! There is hope!

DD2 is up between 6-7 every day no matter what. Not only that, she still wakes up every 2-3 hours and has to be soothed back to sleep (or I lay in bed and nurse her if I'm feeling particularly lazy). And she has a terrible cold right now so last night was pure hell.

Zilly13 · June 2014

Sing2phins said:

Zilly13 said:

I voted SS because DD is up by 4:30/4:45 for the day. It's rough.

Do you cry every morning? I would. Seriously. My sympathies.

It's pretty brutal - especially since I can't usually get to bed any earlier than 10:30/11pm. I'm kind of used to it now - I usually wake up around 4:30 on my own. DD1 is an early riser too, she's 2.5 and is up by 6am usually. So by the time I get to work I've already had a full day. I live for coffee and blame by DH. He gave them his early riser gene.

kailapop · June 2014

fitmama418 said:
She wakes up anywhere between 5:15-6. Every day. And on weekends. "Sleeping in" doesn't exist anymore.

Samies. I'm happy when O sleeps till 6:30.

cagoldi · June 2014

M - F We get him up at 6:15/6:30 to get ready for daycare.

Saturday and Sunday he usually wakes up between 7 and 7:30.

W might get over his early wakings but I highly doubt it's teething if he is STTN. It's really common for babies to be early risers.

maidmarian83 · June 2014

I'm a lurker on this board, but I do have a November baby. He's usually up for a bottle around 4:30/5 and then back down until 6:30-7:30. Sometimes he'll sleep until 8:30.

But I also have a 2 year old who is usually up at 5:45 during the summer months. No matter how many blackout curtains I put on his window, he is up by 6:00 during the summer. In the winter, he'll sleep until 7:30. We went through a phase where he was up at 4:30 for the day.

I guess I'm trying to say that it might get better, and then get worse again, and then get better. He's only 2, so I obviously don't have all the answers, but I struggled with trying to "fix" the early wake up for a while. Early wake ups suck, and I really feel for everyone going through this. There isn't anything that actually worked for us, except it being darker in the morning, but I have heard that putting them down earlier is actually the better thing to do, not later. Just my $0.02.

cagoldi · June 2014

@CFox815 A was STTN at around two months but at week 13 it fell apart. Some nights he doesn't get up, sometimes we can see him 6-8 times by morning. Very inconsistent.

I never know what we'll get on any given night. I would have never imagined I'd be looking at my 8 month-old wondering why he can't sleep like he did when he was only 8 weeks old.

Mum2Be28 · June 2014

FYI-- I'm love titing (is that a word?) all responses just to thank you all for responding to my post. I didn't want some of you thinking I actually looooove what you said. A lot of you are in the yawn club with me!

McJen715 · June 2014

CFox815 said:
All of these sttn babies are making me sad. I would get up at 6am if I could just have some uninterrupted sleep.

mskatiep · June 2014

MelloChello said:

FYI-- I'm love titing (is that a word?) all responses just to thank you all for responding to my post. I didn't want some of you thinking I actually looooove what you said. A lot of you are in the yawn club with me!
I appreciate the love tit and I'm sure my response was definitely yawn worthy, so I'm curious...what exactly would have made it more exciting? Should I have added exclamation points? ;-) P.S. Most sleep posts are yawn worthy to me. See what I did there?

I don't think she means boring, I think she means tired from getting up so early.

Mum2Be28 · June 2014

MelloChello said:

Mum2Be28 said:
FYI-- I'm love titing (is that a word?) all responses just to thank you all for responding to my post. I didn't want some of you thinking I actually looooove what you said. A lot of you are in the yawn club with me!
I appreciate the love tit and I'm sure my response was definitely yawn worthy, so I'm curious...what exactly would have made it more exciting? Should I have added exclamation points? ;-)

P.S. Most sleep posts are yawn worthy to me. See what I did there?

Oh man I'm a loser. I can't even make a joke correctly.

By "yawn club" I meant that I'm exhausted and yawning all day long from my babe waking up so early. And there were several people that seem to be joining me in that department. And have it worse off than me!

Mum2Be28 · June 2014

Ohh I just read the rest of the responses. Soooo y'all did get me!

Ninjamama86 · June 2014

CFox815 said:
He usually wakes up between 7-9.

But don't hate me yet.

He doesn't go to sleep until 11ish (his doing, we try for hours before that) and wakes up a number of times.

So unless you want to spend all your evening grownup time with the baby, theres not really am advantage to having a baby that will sleep in a bit.

This exactly.

SV917 · June 2014

5:30 - 8 is our range. If H sleeps through the night, he wakes up before 6. If he eats in the middle of the night, he'll sleep until 7:30 or so. E wakes up at 3 to eat and usually sleeps until 7 or 7:30.

88sharonlee · June 2014

On a good night, like last night, B goes down around 8 and sleeps till 3:15 ish, I nurse her and then she's back down until 5:30.
She gets to come into our bed at that point, gets nursed and then sleeps with us until we have to get up around 6:30.

Weekends if I'm lucky we both stay sleeping in our bed until maybe 7:30 or 8:00.

This is a huge improvement over the last month- now if only I could learn to sleep well again!

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