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Needing to wake up earlier

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in March 2014 Moms
Kind of a weird problem, girls. LO is doing great and is STTN most nights (5.5 mo old)...we put her to bed around 8-9 and it is now 8:30 am and she is still asleep.

The college semester starts back up next week, and we have childcare arranged (away from home) from 7:30-12:30 M-F.

How is the best way to change her schedule so she can be up, fed, dressed, and at this childcare about 10 minutes away from home all by 7:30! I'm feeling regret over this schedule but I teach from 8 am to 10:45 am at school so I will have to get her there on time! Grrr who knew I'd have to DISCOURAGE my baby from sleeping in!?! :-/
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Re: Needing to wake up earlier

  • KewiiKewii member
    If you're looking for her to keep her 12 hours of sleep, I'd start creeping her bedtime up.  A couple days at 7:45, some at 7:30, etc.

    She might also naturally adjust to an earlier bedtime if you get her up earlier.  or she could be like mine and just sleep in the car to make up the rest of her sleep and then the rest of her schedule is normal.

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  • fish8412fish8412 member
    Try an earlier bedtime (gradually like someone else said).
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  • tsmith312tsmith312 member
    Earlier bedtime doesn't work, at least or us. She goes down anywhere between 7:30-8:30 and wakes up between 5-5:30 a.m.. If she's not up when I need her to be I just wake her ( which is rare) but she will take another nap about 6:30 a.m.

     

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  • novelblessingsnovelblessings member
    edited August 2014
    We have tried an earlier bedtime a few times and it hasn't worked for us either. I just get her up when I need her up. Sometimes she just wakes earlier on her own anyways but always goes down around 9pm no matter what. No matter when she gets up she takes a nap within an hour/hour and a half of getting up.
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  • Hdhtk4Hdhtk4 member
    My LO usually sleeps until 7:30-8:00, but school started back today so I needed her up by 6:30. I tried putting her to bed earlier this past week, but she just wasn't having it. She did go to bed slightly earlier last night at 8:00 instead of 8:30 though. I always feel bad having to wake her up, so this morning I just opened her door and hoped the sound of me moving around getting ready would cause her to wake up on her own. Sure enough, she started talking about 6:30.

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  • SurpriseAt39SurpriseAt39 member
    My DS1 was 9 months when I returned to work, and at the time he (sometimes) woke at 4am either to eat or just for a back patting. Then would sleep until 8 or 9 am.
    When he slept through the 4am but I had to leave the house I just picked him up, changed his diaper if necessary, loaded him into the carseat around 4:30-5am and left. He usually slept for the half hour car ride to MIL's house and slept til 8am once there.

    I vote for the 'just get LO up and away'. She may adjust on her own very easily. But you know your baby best. If screwing with nap times backfires then you may want to slowly adjust bedtime in advance.
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