Waking at 4.15 am!

So Max has decided its a good idea to wake at 4.15 am!! He is wide awake and will not go back down - have given him a bottle and then tried - but no - have rocked him and let him cry a bit (not cio yet). But he is up for the day! But then if my hubby takes him for a walk around 5/5.30 he goes to sleep for an hour. What is up with him? This coincides with him screaming at bath times now! He does not nap excessively during the day. Phase? Doomed to get up at 4.15 for ever??? Any ideas???

 

No ideas how to fix it but my DD does the same thing. She is up wide awake at 4:30 most mornings. It was all of the sudden too. Maybe teething? I don't know. But its driving me crazy too.

 

My DS did that for a few months, and I just leave him in his crib until official wake-up time, as I figure at least if he is in his crib he MIGHT go back to sleep- I always have a blanket, a toy and his crib mobile thingy that he can play with. But, honestly he did this for a few months, and is just now coming out it and sleeping until 6-630am again. I didn't really do CIO, because most days he didn't cry a bunch, just played,fussed and talked. I know its annoying because it means you don't get sleep - hang in there, its always a phase!

 

I couldn't have written this better myself! As you can see by the time of this post I am going through the same thing with my Caden! Everyday like clockwork he gets up at 4am and thinks it is play time! This has been happening since the time change. The bad thing about it besides me being awake is the fact that he wakes Caleb up too. Sometimes when he wakes Caleb up I will try and feed him and he doesn't even want it, he is just awake because Caden woke him up. I put them both down at the same time every night which is by 7pm. Caleb only gets up usually once during the night to eat and he will sleep until 7am most days which is awesome! Caden on the other hand gets up one to two times before his 4am play session and he doesn't want to go back to sleep. He eventually will but it will only be for maybe an hour and then he's up for the day! I definently feel your pain and if you figure out anything that works to stop this PLEASE let me know!! :hug:

 

I also agree with isis, I leave them in their crib. I have a rule that I do not get them out before 6:30 am. So if they wake up and are not screaming, they stay in bed until 6:30. Most of the time, with about 45 mins of talking and moving around, they go back to sleep until 6:30 or 7 am. Occasionally, I go in and give the pacifier and stuff but HSHHC tells you not to do that, that they need to learn to self-soothe. Its hard to do though when they are crying and I worry about, like the PP, that they will wake each other up.
They both slept through last night...thankfully.

 

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I also agree with isis, I leave them in their crib. I have a rule that I do not get them out before 6:30 am. So if they wake up and are not screaming, they stay in bed until 6:30. Most of the time, with about 45 mins of talking and moving around, they go back to sleep until 6:30 or 7 am. Occasionally, I go in and give the pacifier and stuff but HSHHC tells you not to do that, that they need to learn to self-soothe. Its hard to do though when they are crying and I worry about, like the PP, that they will wake each other up.
They both slept through last night...thankfully.


Ditto. My DS wakes around 6am and sometimes wants to play. I give him his dummy (i.e. pacifier) and he usually goes back to sleep. (I guess we have to do what works, right!) He woke at 4:45am the other day - I wasn´t amused but he did sleep again! LOL! I dont feed him till 6.50-7am and he knows that. I do the same with DD.

 

Around 9 months old I think my girls went through a phase where they started waking earlier and earlier, for my attention. They woke up and just wanted to be up for the day, to play. I had to let them CIO and the way I did it was I set my alarm for the earliest acceptable wake up time, for me that's 5:30 am. If the girls woke up at 4 or later I shut their door and I shut my door so I couldn't hear them and slept til the alarm. I had to do that for about a week, but not every day during that week.