waking at 5am - anyway to stop it

The last few mornings my dd has woken up between 445am-530am. She squawks a bit at first and then starts to cry and just keeps going. I don't want them getting out of their crib until at least 6am.
She usually feeds at about 3am, so if she wakes by 5am, can she be hungry already? I have tried bfing her at 5am and she does take it, but that is nothing new as she will always take it. I am not sure how to get her to sleep longer, should I just leave her in her crib to cry/fuss until 6am. I think hshhc says to leave them in their cribs until 6am even if they cry - but I am not sure what to do.
Oh yeah she goes to bed by 6pm, and gets up to feed around midnight and again around 3-4am.
any ideas or thoughts would be great.

Thanks
Brenda

 

Hey Brenda -

I have no solutions but once again, I am right there with you! However, it seems to happen sporadically with my DS. Hopefully, someone will have a suggestion! I always go into DS if it turns into full blown crying.

Beth

 

We got up with the roosters for about 3 months. I think we tried everything in the book to get them to sleep past 5am. It gradually got to 6am but it took a couple of months. It was just a period that they had to mature to sleep longer for us. Good luck.

 

Often dd will wake at 4:30-5 am and all it takes is a binky insertion to get her to go back down. We can usually get her to go back to sleep within 5 minutes and sleep until feeding time at 6:30-7. If you aren't a binky Mom then I have no answers. God bless the binky!

 

Isis- Hi again!!

No, not hungry. The only thing you can do is NOT hear it. Shut your bedroom door and turn on high power fans. When it's wakeup time-- it's wakeup time. That's all you can do.

Beginning at 14 weeks adjusted, I started shutting my door and theirs, and turning on fans. At 6:00 am, I get up and at 6:30 am- They get up. Sometimes they're fussing from 5am until then.. BUT... it's not time to get up and IF I can't hear them-- it doesn't bother me.

Just my advice. I do not see any other solution.

 

My girls went thru an early morning waking up phase, but they never cried they would just play in there at 4 or 5am. I left them unless they started crying. Then I went in to check to make sure diaper is dry and they are comfy. Then I would pat and shush and turn the crib music on and help them fall back to sleep. BUT this was when they were much older than 4 months old. She might be hungry especially if she BFs and doesn't spit it back up. She might be going thru a growth spurt and this might stop once she grows a bit more. Its really hard to tell. GL and hang in there.

 

Hey my DS does that sometimes. I just get up, feed him and he plays for like an hour than goes back tg sleep and by that time DD usually wakes up! Haha.

It just happens some mornings, I just deal with it. I don't know anyway to fix it. He's hungry and doesn't want to sleep anymore!

 

When mine were about 4 months, I would put them to bed at 7pm and they would always wake up at 5am. I've kept their bedtime the same and slowly but surely they've started waking later and later. Now they wake at 6:30 - 7 am; it's not ideal of course but I'm just still so thankful that they sleep through the night!!!! :banana:

 

I wish that soothers would work, but my babies don't like soothers at all. I have not tried to soothing her back to sleep, I may have to give that a try. I try really hard each day to have the babies on the same schedule, so when one wakes up for the day I wake the other one up too, which means poor ds has to get up early too, this is the only way to keep their nap times the same throughout the day.
Hopefully it is just a phase and she will grow out of it, as I don't like letting dd scream for an hour in the morning, I think if I did that I would have to close doors, turn on fans etc, to keep from hearing it - although if it goes on more then another week or two I think a little crying won't hurt her.
Thanks for your responses!

 

I'm SO with you...DD is up with the birds about every other morning, it seems! I did put a blackout shade over their window, which seems to help some...otherwise, I operate along the same lines as the pp: if it's before 6am, it's NOT happening! I just put a pillow over my head and try to block it out (they do wake up to eat at 1 and 4 every night, but this isn't hunger...).

UGH, so sorry others are feeling the same pain!

 

I always demand feed at night. I never wake anyone at night. I would say if she's eating then nurse her and keep it dark and dont talk or look a her just like a night time feeding. She's still young so she might be hungry, I think my girls started eating more at night around that age because they were so distracted during the day.

 

ARe you formula feeding as well as bf ? At that age I think the one twin would end up in bed with me and then I'd nurse her and we'd sleep a bit longer. When I went off bf/formula I just had dh feed them at about 5:30 as part of his routine of getting ready for work and then not get them out of bed until 6:30 or 7 am.

good luck. Frustrating when they change things.

heather