Hellobee Boards

I didn't know that they return at a year. We're going through them at almost 8 months old for some reason.

@looch: For me, I'm cool with having him up if it's the weekend, but during the work weekday, I try to get him to sleep longer. Today, he basically played in his crib for an hour, got fed, and changed by me. By the time he was ready for daycare, he was already cranky and ready for a nap. Ugh, I hate the 5am wakeup.

Hmmm...so she's waking up after ~10.5 hours of sleep? For us, that usually meant we put our LO down too late as he does better with 11+ hrs of night sleep. We did have a couple of 5am wakeups around a year (4:50am was the earliest!!) but we were traveling across 2 time zones (westbound) and they resolved after 3 days. I pushed to keep the nap at 11am at the earliest and 6pm as the earliest bedtime.

If she is waking up from her nap at 1pm I would try and put her down closer to 6pm if possible...but that's just me...I LOVE early bedtimes! My LO also tends to make up sleep overnight rather than thru naps. I know it's probably hard to do that with work and daycare though.

@Freckles: I don't know if earlier/later bedtime will work. For us, pushing it back a little later worked. But you'll have to try both options and see which works. Actually for both of my kids, later bedtimes has worked much better than earlier (contrary to popular belief). I feel you though. 5am wakeups are exhausting!! I hope you find something that works!!!

@Freckles: Oh I know it! They actually aren't so much cries anymore as they are screams followed by sobbing and more screams directly at the door. Sometimes it makes me laugh a little because it sounds like she is yelling at me. =P

Oh man we are dealing with 5 am wakeups, he will be 1 on Thursday. Sometimes he will go back to sleep if I give him a bottle and sometimes he wants to stay up and but is so so tired and grumpy.

@NovBaby1112: i think i remember a previous board where you and i were having a similar issue with early wakeups--is that correct? did your LO get past that and is now waking up early again? we have been dealing with early wakeups for months--like since month 4 or 5 and he's now almost 10 months. if this is a phase, it's a damn long one. i've tried so many things (moving bedtime back and forth, CIO, nursing, whatever) and nothing works. people have told me that they just grow out of it, and i dearly dearly hope this is true.

@edelweiss: yep, that was me! she had about a month or so of the early wake up business when she was younger, then started sleeping until 6:30am (typically) and most recently 7/7:30am which was heavenly lol. Then we moved, the time change happened, and she is in the middle of the 2-1 nap transition so it's prob a combo of all 3? Oh man- that's a LOT of months of waking early! That early hour is so so tough. If you have tried everything, all you can do is hope he grows out of it!! How is he napping during the day? (If I remember correctly- his daycare naps aren't good?)

@Freckles: haha well I am glad that it is behind you now! we are still working on the transition- at daycare she only takes 1 nap but at home sometimes she still has 2. I hope we only have a week or so more of this! I worry so much because I am sure she is EXHAUSTED at daycare from being up so early and not going down for a nap until noon. I will try waiting until 6 to get her. I try giving her a bottle when she wakes up in hopes that she will go back down, but it only works occasionally. I should probably not start a habit like that.

@NovBaby1112: sounds like your LO has a lot going on right now, i will cross fingers that she adjusts soon and goes back to her blissful 6:30-7:30 wakeup time! and good memory--yes our LO has awful naps at daycare. i spoke to a sleep consultant and she thinks that nap deprivation something to do with the early wakeups, like his body is too used to being in awake mode. i now nurse him and he *usually* falls back asleep, and while i'm not enthused about this new early morning feeding, it's worth it to me if he goes back to sleep for at least 1 more hour. of course, would prefer not to have to make this choice at all!

@Freckles: this early wakeup is the only wakeup he has after i put him down for bed. there was 1 blissful month where he was sleeping all the way through, but then the early wakeups started. i do appreciate that i'm not doing other night feedings, and sleep deprivation is a reality for most parents, so i'll just grin and bear it until he grows out of it! i'm grinning so hard i think my teeth are cracking.

@NovBaby1112: you're a better person than me. while i do feel badly about how tired LO will be at daycare, i most definitely feel sorry for my lame sleep-deprived self! i'm going to bed at 8.30 these days to try and compensate!