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Early waking thoughts- Help

Kfran84Kfran84 member
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DS is going through a thing where he is waking up between 5-6:00 AM. I do not want him up until 6 at the earliest, ideally 6:30 would be his wake up time. 

What do you do when your kid wakes up too early? 

@joelies I saw that you refuse to take him out of the crib until a certain time. Does that help? 

I try treating it like a MOTN wake up (leave lights off, no talking, no eye contact), but he's fully awake and wants to nurse, but won't resettle.

This morning LO woke up at 4:50. I tried to get him to sleep for 20 min, then I gave up and put him back in his crib at about 5:10. Let him cry until 5:20, gave up went back in to get him. Today has sucked. 


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Re: Early waking thoughts- Help

  • 88sharonlee88sharonlee member
    LO wakes up between 5:15-5:45 every day. But on the plus side she's sleeping straight through most nights from 8pm on!

    And by wake up I mean up, crying, sitting or standing and hungry!

    Our routine is that I take her downstairs, she gets breakfast , bottle and puffs usually, and then she gets to come to our bed.

    I have to get up at 6:30 anyways so ideally she'd sleep another hour but it's manageable. She typically will fall back asleep in bed with us for another half hour or so, or she'll sit between us and talk and play.

    I'm gone so much of the day that I don't mind this extra hour I get to spend with her, even if it is before the sun!
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  • 88sharonlee88sharonlee member
    Realized my post wasn't very helpful!

    All I can say is that I have also found that staying up later doesn't equal sleeping later, nor does it matter what she eats before bed.

    You might have luck just giving him a small bottle or snack and see if he'll go back down quickly?

    My hope is that she'll grow into sleeping longer over time.

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  • 88sharonlee88sharonlee member
    wedding06 said:


    Kfran84 said:

    Huh... yeah.. he's waking up crying or starts crying within a minute or two of the whimpering I hear when he wakes up. I wonder if I don't go in there to start with if he'll fall back asleep? 

    It's such a crap shoot as to whether they are going to settle themselves or get so amped up that there's no turning that ship around. 

    We start daycare next week and they are moving him to ONE nap a day! They are starting him in a baby room, but on the toddler schedule. I said that sounded harsh, but they were confident he will adjust quickly. I feel like sleep hell is coming my way for the next month or so.

    Daycare could help too. Callan really thrives on a schedule and daycare wears him out. I find his sleep worse the 3 days he isn't at "school".


    Agreed, B is always exhausted on Mondays especially!

    Since your schedule is about to change anyway soon with the start of daycare I'd just wait and see what happens, maybe more sleep is in your future!
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  • hollowwayhollowway member
    I bring M into bed with me when she wakes around 430 and nurse her. She usually falls back to sleep and I just let her stay in bed with me til she's up for the day around 7ish.

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  • Melissa1506Melissa1506 member
    Lo is exactly the same, he usually wakes up at 5-5:30 and is up for the day, I try to let him be and not go in right away, but once he is up he is up and won't go back to sleep even after a bottle. He has also started the past few days waking up at 4 eating and going back down. I wish he would sleep a little later but I am in the same boat and not sure what else to do.
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  • Kfran84Kfran84 member
    cagoldi said:
    I treat it like a night waking. So, I do what you do. Why does DC want him on a toddler schedule? Most babies can't drop to one nap until 15-18 months. That daytime sleep is really still necessary at this age IMO.
    @cagoldi I agree! It's not my favorite thing, and I'm definitely going to be watching it carefully. They are doing it because he is in "toddler transition" mode already because they expect him to move to the toddler room in the next month or two since he is walking and eating table food and therefore needs to be on the toddler room schedule. (So they say)

    I'm very doubtful that he'll make it 5-6 hours without a nap in the morning. His first waking interval is only about 2-2.5 hours right now and they want him to make it to noon before a nap. They say he will be busy playing, but I'm like uh... yeah right? 

    Right now he has an AM nap that is about 45 -60 min and a PM nap that is 1 1/2 hour or 2 hours. So what I really care about is him getting 2-3 hours of sleep during the day. If they can get him to do that with one nap, then I guess I will be okay with it. 



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    Woke up at 5:20 this morning! Gaaaah!!!  (:|


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