Not sure there is much I can do about this but it's worth a try, right? My 6.5 month is an early riser, he gets up at 5/5:30 every single morning... no matter what time we put him to sleep. Plus by 7 p.m. he is DONE!!! But the past week he has been getting up at4. :gah: :gah: :gah: Very frustrating and tiring!!! He's lucky his dad loves him alot and gets up with him. Has anyone dealt with this? Did it pass? Would CIO work?? :thanks:
I have early risers too. We try and make 5.30 the earliest we go in because if we go in any earlier, she will get up earlier and earlier and we will end up at 4.30 the next day then, 4am etc (my DH is annoyingly not receptive to this info). When we get to that early, Yes we (I mean me) did and do CIO and each time it is only for one day and it goes back to normal. She also normally falls back asleep after 5-15mins and has never really had a proper crying bout (fingers crossed). I really like to give her the opportunity to go back to sleep even if I go in and turn her music on so she knows that it is sleep time.. At this age I think they are more likely to start waking up earlier if you continue to go in at that time rather than outgrow it, as this seems to be the main school of thought in all the books/sleep sites I've frequented, and it's been true for us.
I went through this for months and months and eventually did CIO. I refused to go into their room before 6am. It took a while and there were regressions but now at 2 they are rarely up before 6am.
This is risky but could you maybe wake him at 3 and feed him and then put him back down? Maybe with a full belly he would stay asleep a little longer. I would say if that doesnt work then maybe just wait a little while before going in to get him at 4, maybe he would go back to sleep on his own. :hug:
I forgot to add the other thing that I think helped immensely...I made bedtime earlier. It had been 7 but I pushed it up to 6:30, it's still 6:30 now. I think that this change alone was what helped the most.
Great suggestion... but unfortunately he gets up around 3 (most nights) to eat and still gets up at 4/4:30. I think he just misses me SO much he can't sleep. Yeah... that's it. :lol: Thank you guys!! I will give it a few more days and then maybe do CIO because 4 just is not acceptable!!
We fought this issue as well. Honestly, the thing that really seemed to help us was when we made their room DARK. As in, blackout curtains, no more nightlights, and cardboard taped over their window. Once we did that, they got so they would sleep until 6am, which was amazing after being up at 4am! Now, they typically sleep until 7am, every so often I get a random day where they sleep until 7:30 or even 7:45.
Thank you ladies for your input. :good: He went to bed at 6:30 tonight and we will try this for a bit. I can't do earlier because of the older kids and us being out... hopefully it works.
Sorry to hijack the thread, but a quick question, how did you transition to no night light, I have been thinking of this but don't how to go about it, and how will DH do the feed in their room with no light (I do one he does one)
We had two nightlights in their room, so we got rid of one, then the other, and then put up the blackout curtains. And later, out of desperation and being tired of getting up at 4am, we did the cardboard. Our boys stopped eating at night at 3.5 months, so they were already well past that age when we did all this - I think they were around 8 months if I remember right.
