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HELP! Baby wakes up at 4:30 crying every morning!

khendricksztakhendrickszta member
in Babies: 3 - 6 Months
I am officially at my wits end.  I have read through all the discussion posts, blog posts, baby websites, and forums to no avail.  
My daughter slept wonderfully through the night from 7:30 to 6:30 from the time she was 2 months old.  I'll admit, I got too big for my britches, thinking I was fantastic at this whole baby sleep thing.  When she was 3 1/2 months old, two things happened on the same day: we took a trip to visit family 9 hours away and she learned to roll over. Nothing has been the same since then.  She is now 6 months and can crawl, and she has woken up at 4:30 every single morning since she was 3 1/2 months old like clockwork.
I have tried earlier bed times, later bedtimes (we always keep the same routine), sleep sack, no sleep sack, letting her cry it out.  Nothing has worked.  Before bed, she has 6oz of formula and about two tables of prepared oatmeal.  She not ready to get up because she wakes up crying.  She usually has herself scooted into a corner, which makes her mad.  Even when I move her though, she isn't happy. 
 If I feed her, she goes right back to sleep.  If I give her her pacifier, she goes right back to sleep.  I'm thinking the pacifier is the culprit of this whole mess because she usually can't find it at night to put it back in.  I've taken it away from her once for a month (which got her to sleeping through the night), but gave it back because of pressures from family members.  Not I can't take it away because she is in love with that thing….especially when she is sleeping :(
Any suggestions? Should I just get up and giver her her pacifier?

Sorry for the long post.  This was also a cathartic rant for me.  
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Re: HELP! Baby wakes up at 4:30 crying every morning!

  • mcgeevamcgeeva member
    edited August 2014
    If she is eating and going right back to sleep she is waking up because she is hungry. Just feed her and put her back to bed. Maybe when you up her solids to twice or three times a day she will be fuller and sleep longer. With that being said she is already sleeping pretty darn good for her age. My lo is BF but eating around 2.5 oz of food before bed. I am about to add one more meal in another week or two. But mine eats dinner at 6, then a 5 oz bottle at 7:30 and straight to bed. Wakes either around 3 ot 5 to eat and back to bed until 6ish. 

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  • PrimRoseMamaPrimRoseMama member
    Kimbus22 said:

    Feed her and put her back to bed.  She's growing.  She might need more food than when she was STTN.  This is what babies do.  It's completely normal. It's not a problem to "fix".

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  • khendricksztakhendrickszta member
    Thanks for the advice, everyone!
    I agree it is not rocket science; however, I do believe strongly in sleep associations and learned behavior. I have a Masters in Special Education, and I teach psychology at the secondary level. When I ask for help and advice, it isn't done so lightly.
    She eats solids four times a day: 8, 12, 4, 7. We tried introducing them slowly, but she wanted all the "big girl food." I just find it suspicious that it is at the same time each morning that she wakes up crying.
    We do get up and put her pacifier back in now, sometimes that works and sometimes she has to be fed back sleep.
    Simply looking for moms and dads who have advice on fixing learned behaviors in banies.
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  • khendricksztakhendrickszta member
    That's a good point I haven't thought about, regarding the solids/formula. We give her her bottle before solids at every meal time. She doesn't have very much though beflre she pushes it away and reaches for her food. What are your thoughts on decreasing the number of times she ate solids in a day? Would that throw her all out of sorts or would it help?
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  • CallMeKelCallMeKel member
    I would just try to placate her w/a paci. As ling as she's getting plenty of milk during the day, she doesn't NEED the nighttime feeding (even though she'll take it if offered), she just needs to satisfy her desire to suck.
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  • khendricksztakhendrickszta member
    Thanks, guys! She's started waking up at 12, 3:30, and 5:30 now so I think we hit the six month sleep regression. Will definitely keep feeding her and doing whatever to get us through the night.
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