https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:36:09 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-1219193 Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:21:25 +0000 edelweiss 1219193@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-1215520 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:48:10 +0000 NovBaby1112 1215520@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Freckles: I will try waiting a bit more before getting her- at least 10 mins, thanks!! Hopefully its just a short phase!</p> <p>@edelweiss: well that's good he at least falls back asleep most of the time! I would love it if LO fell back asleep after I fed her that early. I'm sorry about the nap deprivation at daycare :( That's to bad they cant get him to nap better/longer! I just hate the early morning wake-up, not because I am tired, but because I know how tired she will be all day at daycare! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-1215496 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:41:14 +0000 edelweiss 1215496@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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!</p> <p>@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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-1215463 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:30:56 +0000 Freckles 1215463@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NovBaby1112: I went through that too! I would nurse her and think she'll go back to sleep but nope, crying and screaming ensues. Now that she's a little older i would try getting her a little later. You could do it gradually -- wait 10 minutes on the first day, 15 minutes the next day, etc. depending on when she wakes up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-1215455 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:28:15 +0000 NovBaby1112 1215455@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-1215452 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:27:12 +0000 Freckles 1215452@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@edelweiss: They do grow out of it. For me, sleep was the worst in the 1st year. LO was a pretty good sleeper, but fragmented sleep was still fragmented sleep. Is he still nursing at night? It's really hard when they wake up close to morning wake-up (e.g., 5am) because sometimes they just won't fall back asleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-1215440 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:24:03 +0000 NovBaby1112 1215440@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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?) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-1215434 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:22:34 +0000 Freckles 1215434@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NovBaby1112: It feels like a distant memory now! haha. Is your LO on 1 nap yet or are you still working on the transition? During the transition, i moved her bedtime earlier and things seemed to work out okay. But then she went through this 5am phase. </p> <p>It really only lasted 1-2 weeks and she eventually started waking up at 6am. The one thing i did was i stopped going to her at 5:30am. The earliest i would get her was 6am, and unless she was visibly upset, i wouldn't get her. I think that also helped. As they get older, their bedtimes will also naturally move later which will help move the wakeup times. LO is 19 months and now wakes up at around 6:45am. Sometimes she'll lay there happily until 7:30am!</p> <p>All i can say is hang in there!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-1215418 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:18:35 +0000 edelweiss 1215418@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-1215334 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:51:20 +0000 NovBaby1112 1215334@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Freckles: OP- did anything end up working for you? I don't know if it's the time change, moving to our new house, or the 2-1 nap transition, but our 1 year old LO has been waking at 5/5:30am for over a week now, ugh </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-719242 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:26:08 +0000 Springtime 719242@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-718182 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:11:10 +0000 Kemma 718182@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Will she sleep in bed with you? If my LO wakes up before six I can usually nurse her back to sleep if we're in bed together. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-717634 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:57:16 +0000 littleveesmommy 717634@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-717579 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:43:40 +0000 Freckles 717579@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sammyfab: Before she would go down no problems, and would always have a total of 12 hours of sleep. I'm going to try putting her to bed at 6pm tonight, but it depends on what time she woke up from her nap. </p> <p>@littleveesmommy: We tried letting her cry it out, but it seems to get worse as they get older!! I would just close my eyes and pray she would stop, but then DH would get up and go to her! </p> <p>@banana: Later bedtimes worked for us in the past, but the one-nap thing has made me put her on a strict early schedule. If the earlier bedtime tonight doesn't work, i may have to go the other way after a few days!</p> <p>@Mrs. High Heels: I hope it's only 1 week for us!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-717526 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:30:27 +0000 banana 717526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-717187 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:19:38 +0000 littleveesmommy 717187@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes!!! I thought it was so weird for DD to be waking at 5am after sleeping through for months. For a week or two, I'd get up to nurse her then she would go back to sleep until 7ish. Then she started refusing to go back to sleep and I'd just get up with her, but it became quickly obvious that she needed the sleep. So I began to just let her cry after nursing her and she'd either fall back asleep until 7, roll around for 30 minutes then sleep for a bit, or just roll around until I was ready to get her. After a week of that, I just stopped going in altogether (which is really because I was just too too too exhausted and closed my eyes praying she'd go back to sleep) and VOILA - she rolled around for 5 minutes and fell back asleep. </p> <p>Overall, the 5am wake-up lasted one month and now, either I don't even hear her stir at 5 or she stopped waking early. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-716999 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:41:10 +0000 Sammyfab 716999@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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.</p> <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-716997 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:40:50 +0000 looch 716997@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cascademom: I was staying at home, so I could nap when he napped, usually in the afternoon, so I totally get that it's not cool during the week.</p> <p>I tried everything, earlier bedtime, later bedtime, using wake to sleep, you name it, NOTHING made a difference. Daylight savings came and went with no effect. I was about to go nuts, then he started sleeping in (until 6 am, LOL!). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-716987 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:38:09 +0000 cascademom 716987@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-716972 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:35:57 +0000 looch 716972@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had them too, so I got up and let him start his day. He still needed his morning nap, but nothing I did would reset the wake time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-716963 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:34:41 +0000 cascademom 716963@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't know that they return at a year. We're going through them at almost 8 months old for some reason. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-716942 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:29:16 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 716942@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes we had 5am wake ups too around 1-year!! Thankfully it was just a phase that lasted about a week. Left as quickly as it came with no changes made on our end. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-716891 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:12:58 +0000 Freckles 716891@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Does that really work? I actually had to move LO's bedtime forward to 6:30 from 7pm because in her overtired state (she had just transitioned to 1 nap) she was waking up at 3am. Things were going pretty well once we moved her bedtime forward...well, until now anyways. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-716870 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:08:35 +0000 banana 716870@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I totally remember the 5am wakeups at around 1 year! I forgot about them until you just mentioned it and then all of the sleep-deprived memories came flooding back! We ended up pushing in bedtime a little later (maybe 30-45 mins?) and after a week or two, he ended up waking up at around 6:30am. I don't have any advice but this is what worked for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/5am-wakeups#post-716508 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:32:55 +0000 Freckles 716508@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>(Ahhhh i typed up all this stuff and forgot to choose a board...and then the page automatically refreshed and erased my post!!! GRR!)</p> <p>Did anyone deal with early 5am wakeups at the 1 year mark? Previously, LO was going to bed between 6:30-7pm, depending on when she woke up from her nap at daycare. She would get in about 11-11.5 hours of night sleep, and 1.5-2 hours for her 1 nap. </p> <p>For the past week, she's been waking up at 5am crying, and refusing to go back to sleep. It's obvious she's tired! DH will rock her and calm her down, but once he tries to put her in the crib she starts going crazy. After 45 minutes of this, i'll go in and nurse her, but she won't fall asleep and just wants to go on the floor to play. Finally around 6:30am, i'll put her on the floor to play. </p> <p>I know this has been affecting her naps at daycare because lately she has only been napping for 40-60 minutes, causing her to be up from 1pm until bedtime (she's fast asleep by 6:40pm).</p> <p>Any advice/suggestions/critiques would be helpful! DH and i are dying these days... </p>