waking too early?

I know this has been asked before but I can't find any other posts or references about it.

WE follow HSHHC and have great success with it my b/g twins are 8 months and have been sleeping thru the night since 2.5 and 4 months respectively. They're normal wake up time is 6am (would like it to be 7 but you take what you can get) but over the past month they have been waking between 5-6 and I am constantly getting up in that hour to reinsert paci's to get them to 6am.

Any suggestions would be GREAT!

thx
Erica

 

I wanted to post about this too! I am no help-but have the same "problem" going on at our house. My boys have been STTN since 6 months. They go down generally around 7pm. They are almost always in their crib by 7pm, usually asleep by 7:30pm. Last night-it was a bit later as they took a later nap(we weren't home) and were in the crib around 8Pm. Anyways...

One son gets up anywhere between 5am-6am almost everyday! Today-5am. I let him CIO-but he doesn't really stop. He's like the Energizer bunny....keeps going and going! He might fall asleep-but it's short-and is back up crying again. Sometimes it's because he has a full diaper(anyone know how to change THAT schedule? :rotflmbo: ).

SO-I will be interested to see what others have to say! I have started to come to terms with the 6am wake up. But I would much rather 7am. And it's not consistent-so if they are going to get up at 6am-make it EVERY DAY!

OK. I didn't mean to hijack your thread! Just know you are not alone!

 

My boys did not STTN until 6 months but still took one bottle around 2am until 9 months. Unfortunately, alot of babies are early risers especially that young..you are right you take what you can get at least they are STTN, right? . At 6m mine went to bed at 6:30pm and woke at 5am, I eventually pushed their bedtime up to 7/7:30 around a year and they woke up between 5:30-6:30am and finally around 2 bedtime became 8 Pm but I refuse to put them to bed any later mommy needs some quiet time too! so they are now waking 6-6:30am they have always been early risers. You can try pushing up their bedtime a half hour and see where that takes you, also if they are still taking 2 naps, which mine did until 19 months, I made sure they were done both naps by 3pm because then it would run into bedtime. You can also try bathing them at night it may relax them.

 

We had the same issue and it took about 2-3 months for them just to mature to sleep an hour longer to 6am. It will happen.

 

Unfortunately, I have no good news or stories. I've just given up & have realized I have early risers. It sucks. But not as bad as when they were waking at 4-4:30am! It seems like now, at 10 1/2 mos, they get up between 5-6am, but usually babble for a while & are up for the day around 5:45-6am.

We tried earlier bedtimes (as early as 5:45pm) & later bedtimes (which was worse b/c they got WAY too overtired...the latest we ever made it was 7:30pm). We do a night time routine & have done it since they were like 3 mos old, so we didn't change that (including baths every other day, now daily with sunscreen & being outside more). We tried CIO til our 'set' wake up time of 6am & it didn't work. We let them cry til 6am for weeks. Apparantly they never got the picture . WE separated them into different rooms. We have room darkening shades & a white noise machine. We tried the whole 'nudge' 30 mins before their typical wake up to try to reset the cycle & get them to sleep longer (which severely backfired & then woke them up a 1/2 hr earlier...ACK!). They take 2 naps during the day, 1-2 hrs each, & never sleep past 3:30pm. They eat 3 solid meals & take 3 bottles....haven't done a night feed since 7 mos.

They just don't like to sleep in! I'm ok with 6am, so at least it's not as bad as some of you. But 4am? 5am? Ugh.....

GL, hopefully it's just a phase your kiddos are going through & they'll start sleeping in soon!!!! I've been battling early wake ups for about 4 mos now!!!!

 

I know that this is an old post but I wanted to know what you ladies are doing as far as schedule for your early risers. My girls are 10 mos. old and they consistently wake up b/w 5:00 and 5:30 am ( they go to bed b/w 6:00 and 6:15 pm). We leave them in there until 6:00 am they are usually content to just play until then. So I have accepted the fact that we have early risers. My question is about the rest of your schedule. When are your naps? We are on two naps, usually around 9:00 and 2:00 but they seem to be getting tired earlier and one of my girls is fighting the afternoon nap. She would rather play in her crib the whole time and then cry because she becomes exhausted. I would love to see some sample schedules for all of us early risers. Most of the schedules that I have seen are for those lucky parents who wake up at 7:00

Anyways, any advice would be appreciated.

Ana

 

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I know that this is an old post but I wanted to know what you ladies are doing as far as schedule for your early risers. My girls are 10 mos. old and they consistently wake up b/w 5:00 and 5:30 am ( they go to bed b/w 6:00 and 6:15 pm). We leave them in there until 6:00 am they are usually content to just play until then. So I have accepted the fact that we have early risers. My question is about the rest of your schedule. When are your naps? We are on two naps, usually around 9:00 and 2:00 but they seem to be getting tired earlier and one of my girls is fighting the afternoon nap. She would rather play in her crib the whole time and then cry because she becomes exhausted. I would love to see some sample schedules for all of us early risers. Most of the schedules that I have seen are for those lucky parents who wake up at 7:00

Anyways, any advice would be appreciated.

Ana


We are trying something new this week and it seems better. My babies wake up at 5am and there is no way I'm starting my day that early. I started pushing bedtime up to 6:45-7pm. (usually in cribs by 7pm) They started waking up @ 5:30 now. In the morning, I won't let them fall back asleep (I used to do this and it killed naps). I wait until 6:30 to feed them, and I put all sorts of toys in DD crib and put them together to play. This has been the schedule for a week or so but keep in mind, I'm not a schedule person so it isn't exact. I really follow their cues for naps and wing it in between.

5:30 wake up
6:30 bottle
8 solids
9-9:30 nap
11:30 wake
12:00 bottle/solids
1:30-2 nap (they get tired quickly for some reason)
3-3:30 wake/bottle
4:30 dinner (sometimes)
6:30 start bedtime
7pm done....

 

Mine are doing this right now as well! It doesn't matter what time we put them to bed whether it be 5:45pm or 7ish, they STILL wake sup around 5:15am! WAY too early in my opinoin! 6am seems a little more tolerable to me but by about 5:30/5:45 am they are scareming their heads off. What makes me even more annoyed is that they aren't even wanting a bottle at that time, they just want to get out of the crib. I used to be able to get them up and feed them a bottle and put them right back to bed until about 8ish. Then I would go back to bed as well. Now they won't take there bottle right away and they definetly won't go back to bed. UGH. I'm SO not an early riser so it makes it tough!

 

As far as schedules go mine looks like this:

btwn 5-5:30 dd wakes crying and I can USAULLY put a pacifier in her mouth and get her to sleep until 6am but one way or another NO ONE gets out of their crib till 6am-

6am - out of cribs and bottles
8am- breakfast
9am - nap
10:30 - wake and bottles
1pm - lunch
1:30 - nap
3:00 - wake and bottles
5:00pm - dinner
5:30- baths
6pm - bottles and bed

My twins are 9 months (actually will be 10 months next week)

Not sure if that's helpful or not. I really haven't found a solution for the early waking although DS has gotten better about it but DD like clockwork around 5:20 will wake but like I said she'll usually go back to sleep with a pacifier...

good luck and if anyone finds the magic solution PLEASE share!

ps. We too tried putting them down later and since they already go to bed at 6 I can't see putting them down any eariler so we just do the best we can-