Wake them up or let them sleep in?

What do you do in the mornings - wake your babies at a certain time every day or let them sleep until they wake up on their own?

When I wake my girls up between 7 - 7:30, they will take a longer morning nap than if I let them sleep in. So which sleep is better - continued sleep from overnight or a longer am nap?

 

I always let my girls sleep until they wake up. IMO if they are sleeping they obviously need that sleep.

 

Let them sleep in! I never wake them up but they are always up at 6:15/6:30

 

i always wake my girls at 7:00am (although, i haven't actually had to wake them up in months now - they're usually raring to go & waiting for me to come & get them). the only time i let them sleep in is if there's a specific reason - they had a really bad night the night before, or they're sick. it makes a huge difference i find for getting a consistent schedule & for keeping them on the same schedule.

 

i dont wake them up in the mornings because they arent sleeping through the night yet.


Kenneth and Ian are 1 month old

 

I don't wake mine either. If one wakes up though, (and it's not ridiculously early) I'll get the other one up too. Sadly, my boys are my alarm clock and it's rare (only around daylight savings) that I see 7am on my alarm. It's usually closer to 5:45.

 

We have been letting them wake up themselves up, it's never later than 8-8.30 anyway which i think, isn't too late. We are trying to use HSHHC as a guide. We have the same routine everyday but aren't following clock time yet and so far so good.

 

I let them sleep until they wake up. If one wakes up before the other.. I'll wake the other within 10-15 mins. That way they go down for a nap together.

 

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i always wake my girls at 7:00am (although, i haven't actually had to wake them up in months now - they're usually raring to go & waiting for me to come & get them). the only time i let them sleep in is if there's a specific reason - they had a really bad night the night before, or they're sick. it makes a huge difference i find for getting a consistent schedule & for keeping them on the same schedule.



Ditto for me with my boys.

 

I dont wake Ty up. He sleeps for 10-12 hours a night. I worried that he was going to long between his feedings but the ped said NEVER wake a sleeping baby.

 

My girls are 3 months old and are close to STTN, they are doing about 6 hours straight, sometimes more. I usually just let them sleep in the morning, but we are usually up around 7-7:30ish. I don't let them nap more than 4 hours max during the day so I will wake them during the day if they are running too long on a nap.

 

I used to let mine sleep in but now I wake up DD at 8.30am if she hasnt woken by herself. DS is like an alarm clock and wakes at 7.15 or 7.30am. Sometimes he wakes his sister, other times not. I dont like doing it, and she can be quite grumpy, but if I left her to wake up alone then I´d constantly have one baby up and one baby in bed and I like my ´free´ time in the mornings!

I say do what´s best for you & your family! GL!

 

Let them sleep. Mine get up any where between 6 and 7 am. They are down to two naps a day, and we don't have a specific time, but a round about time. If one goes down before the other, I let them. No reason to deprive someone of sleep, IMO.

 

I don't wake either of my babies up, regardless of time. Ezra slept in until 8:45 on Monday and was ready for his nap at 9:30. Annika woke at 7:30. Despite that, they both napped at the same time. Almost always, they nap at the same time even though they wake at completely different times. Ezra always needs more sleep than Annika so it usually works out. I reason that sleep is important for a baby and that at different milestones they may need or require more sleep than at other times. So far, I notice they both require more sleep when they are teething so that may be a consideration for you as well. I know that all children are different and for yours it may be different than what works for my two. Try it out either way and see how the babies respond. If they are cranky I would say they still needed more sleep.

 

I don't wake them, we prefer a late schedule and the babes go to bed between 11:30-12:30am usually, then up between 6:30-8:30 for a bottle, then back to bed until around 10:30-11 when they get up for the day. If one wakes up ready to eat I do wake the second one to keep them on the same schedule, but otherwise I let them sleep.

 

I try not to wake mine...."sleep begets sleep." I have one not-so-good sleeper, and one much better sleeper. I figure they are two individuals who have different needs, so I should respect that...even if that means I almost always have someone up. The only time I do wake my good sleeper is if the other baby is up and ready to eat and the sleeper hasn't eaten in over 3 hours (they usually eat every 2-3)...so that I don't sit down and start to nurse one baby only to have the second wake up mid-feed.

Even if I start them on the same schedule in the morning, one takes a 2 hour nap while the other naps only 30-minutes in the morning, so then they're still off all day. I would NEVER wake my poor sleeper in the morning...because who knows if she's going to sleep the rest of the day!!

I figure by one year we'll be on 3 meals and one afternoon nap and I'll get them together then. I can survive until then, and feel this is the best way to meet each baby's need.

Adrianna

 

I never wake mine up if they're sleeping. I figure if they're sleeping, they need the rest. They usually get put to bed around 10:30, wake up around 6 to eat, and go back down to sleep for another hour and a half and wake up at 8. They've put themselves on the same sleeping schedule, and they both wake up at the same time or within 5 mins of each other.

 

I am a working mom, so I was waking my kids up every morning when I woke up so they'd be on a schedule. I no longer wake them up because they have put themselves on their own schedules (which is my schedule...lol). I am a firm believer of putting kids on a schedule as it helped our twins STTN once we did. They are almost 6 months. DS has been STTN since around 2-2 1/2 mnths. DD has been STTN since around 4-4 1/2 mnths.

Of course, this all goes out the window if one is feeling under the weather. I let them sleep as much as they want if they aren't feeling well...after all, don't we want to rest when we don't feel well?

This worked for us, but every kid is diff. Good luck on whatever you decide!