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Wake Up Time

justkeeptryingjustkeeptrying member
in May 2015 Moms
I've heard that babies have an internal clock in terms of wake up time. I'm just curious when everyone's LO's are getting up. Has anyone had any success in shifting their baby's wake up time??

My DS was getting up at 6am pretty consistently but the last few days has shifted himself to 5am *mom sobs*. I would love advice on shifting this later.

He's also resisting early bedtime. We were consistently doing 7pm and then he suddenly started refusing. He will go down at 7 and then be awake by 8. I nurse him and then he will go down for the night after a few tears. We haven't changed anything in our daily routine and he naps 4x a day and I encourage hour and a half to 2 hour long naps. He usually naps in my arms because otherwise he will wake up after 20 minutes.

Help!!! I'm so tired...5am is much too early for me!!!
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  • danibonellodanibonello member
    I'm in a similar boat!! We have been able to slowly move up our bedtime from 10:30 to 9-9:30, which is great, but now if LO doesn't wake up around 2 or 3am for a feed, then she's up at 4:30 or 5 and won't go back down. So now I find myself actually wanting her to wake up in the middle of the night, because then I can get her to sleep until at least 6, sometimes 7.

    Curious to hear other's experiences.
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  • jrecinejrecine member
    I put LO down for the night between 9:00-10pm depending on when he's ready for his last bottle. We'll do a bath then I'll give him his bottle in the dark room in his rocking chair. Then I put him down and he'll sleep consistently until about 6am. He hasn't changed sleeping until 6, he's pretty consistent. So I guess I just have an early riser!
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  • ballinbaby15ballinbaby15 member
    We put our LO down around 7-730, she wakes up between 1-2 for a feeding, then sleeps until 7. She just went through her twelve week growth apurt(I think) and she put herself on this schedule.
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  • rae430rae430 member
    I have no advice- my LO wakes up every morning at 6:30 on the dot no
    matter what time he goes to sleep. Right now he's sleeping from 8-6:30 with a feed around 1:30 or 2
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  • canadianmom89canadianmom89 member
    I don't know how I got so lucky but my lo is never up before 8 and most of the time she sleeps until 9. We usually start her bedtime routine around 830 with a bath, massage, cuddle and story then I feed her in the rocking chair in the dark and she is out by 930 or 10. We were bed sharing until this week and she would sleep the whole 10-11 hours but now she is in her crib , she wakes around 6, has a quick feed and sleeps until 9 still.
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  • caseheelacaseheela member
    We put our DD down between 930-10. During the week she wakes up at 430 (SO alarm goes off then) for a quick feeding then she sleeps until 830-9. Weekends she sleeps until 9am or 930am without waking. She's still calling the shots right now so we in no way have a set routine but she seems to have put herself on a schedule for the day to day stuff.
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  • erin79erin79 member
    My DD goes down between 7:30 and 8:00 at night, and is up between 6:30 and 7:00 in the morning.  About how many hours is he sleeping during the day?  If he's getting 4 long naps, maybe that's too much day sleep and it's cutting into his night sleep.  Just a thought.
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  • justkeeptryingjustkeeptrying member
    Thanks everyone!

    He's up for about 8-9 hours total in a 24 hour period. Which I understand to be ideal for under 3 months. I'm really hoping we will have a more consistent bedtime schedule once he's 3 months old. He's 10 weeks today. So a few more weeks to be working on more of a routine I guess.
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  • jerseymommatobejerseymommatobe member
    @chambersbaby2015 have you thought about buying blackout shades for the room? My Lo was also getting very awake at 5am and it was killing me! I got darkening shades and she seems to sleep a little longer now. With it being summer and light out so early, I think the bright room really wakes her.
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  • justkeeptryingjustkeeptrying member
    edited July 2015
    @jerseymommatobe - thanks for the suggestion. Already done it. He sleeps in our pitch black room, swaddled and with white noise on (which drives me crazy I might add).

    If anyone has any other suggestions I would definitely appreciate anything you can offer.
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  • aacorb31aacorb31 member
    Our LO goes down around 10 and will sleep until anywhere between 6 and 8, it's not always consistent. @chambersbaby2015 When your little guy gets up at 5 is he crying? I was really proud of myself this morning because LO was up around 5 but not crying, just talking. So I let him be and he must have fallen back to sleep.. As did I because next thing I knew it was almost 7! Much better than 5! Maybe if you can put off a feeding at 5 for a few days he will adjust? Just a thought.. But every time I think I've figured something out my guy changes it up on me!
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  • Kye042Kye042 member
    We start our routine (bath, change, feed, snuggle) at 7pm every night (only bathe every other day). LO is down in his crib between 8:30-9pm and he will then sleep til 4am where we feed again. He then wakes up around 6 and we change him and he goes back to bed til 8. Try different things like just changing and putting LO down it could work?
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  • montanchelsymontanchelsy member
    4am wake up here :(
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  • justkeeptryingjustkeeptrying member
    @FutureMrsSteelers - he's usually not full out crying but is definitely fussing. Enough so that I can't fall back to sleep so I end up just getting up to feed him in hopes he will go back to sleep after. Which never happens. I almost always leave him 15-20 minutes to see if he will fall back to sleep and I'll give him a soother to try to help. But it never seems to do anything unfortunately and I still end up feeding him.

    @montanchelsy - 4am?!?! Oh I would be going insane that early :(
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  • ceberhardt89ceberhardt89 member
    My daughter goes down anytime between 9 and 10, then wakes up anytime between 4-5am for a bottle and diaper change and then she goes right back sleep. She will sleep for another 3-4 hours after that. Some mornings I have to actually wake her up around 10 because she is still sound asleep. I'm not breastfeeding so my friends are saying that's why she sleeps longer, because I know exactly how much she is eating and when.
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  • alyssarenee2011alyssarenee2011 member
    My LO gets a bottle between 9-10 depending on when she is ready for it. But it always takes her until 12-1am to fall asleep and fall asleep deep enough to where I can move her to the crib and her not wake up within a few minutes crying. Then she sleeps until 7-8 and gets a bottle and goes back to sleep in her swing until 12 when I don't have to be anywhere. Come August I'm going back to college and my schedule isn't going to allow her to sleep so late, because I'll have to get her to the babysitter. We have tried waking her up to change her schedule a little at a time but I want her to be getting the appropriate amount of sleep a night. Hopefully with a constant wake up time once school starts her midnight sleepy time will get earlier and earlier.
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  • erin79erin79 member
    Is the last nap before bedtime 1.5-2 hours, also?  Maybe if you make the last nap a short one (45ish minutes), he will go down easier for the early bedtime and sleep longer.

    And just to commiserate, my 4-year old wakes up at 5:45 every.single.day.  Blah.  During the week it's fine because that's when I have to get up and get ready for work anyway, but on Saturday and Sunday it really sucks.  Sometimes I'm barely back in bed after feeding DD, and here comes Peter!  Ready to play!
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  • justkeeptryingjustkeeptrying member
    Great suggestion @erin79! Thanks! Usually the last nap is a bit shorter but maybe I can try to cut it back even more. It's worth a shot anyway!
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  • mrswynn2014mrswynn2014 member
    Wow I must be lucky! My LO sleeps from 9or 10 at night until 630 takes her bottle then goes back to sleep until 9ish ( today we slept in until almost 10). She doesn't nap a lot through out the day. Maybe a short one in the morning and 1/2 hr one in the afternoon. She takes her last bottle around 8pm and after a while she puts herself to sleep and I put her in her crib. We have no schedule at all. She just does her thing and it works out. She likes sleep just as much as her mommy!
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  • MegsB1112MegsB1112 member
    We start getting ready for bed around 8, and she falls asleep around 9 or 9:30 and sleeps through til 6:00 or 6:30 usually. Then she eats and goes back down about an hour later for a 1-2 hour nap. It's been working for us. Naps during the day are still inconsistent, and will last anywhere between twenty minutes to two hours (if she's held she sleeps longer).
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