https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:44:52 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/advice-on-early-wake-ups#post-291468 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:13:51 +0000 Mrs. Superhero 291468@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Toddler Girl did that for a bit, I can't remember what age it was. It think I just acted like it was a nighttime wake up and gave her her soother and went back to bed. This didn't always work...but she did go back to sleeping in to a reasonable hour after a couple weeks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/advice-on-early-wake-ups#post-291414 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:41:10 +0000 MamaCate 291414@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks for the support, ladies. I always try to give her a few minutes when we hear her, thinking she may settle back down, but she almost never does. Then I am torn between getting in there quickly with the hopes that I can convince her to sleep a little more with the pacifier or shhing or rocking, etc., and giving her a chance to figure it out on her own. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/advice-on-early-wake-ups#post-291306 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:42:33 +0000 erinpye 291306@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh, I'm sorry. I read somewhere that babies' worst sleep is between 4 and 6 AM. I always cross my fingers that if our 5 mo. old wakes, it's early enough that she's back down before that window. The rare times she does wake around 3:45-4 AM, it's ROUGH getting her to go back down and takes about an hour, if she will at all. Maybe try and let your LO fuss a bit? I don't let ours CIO, but I will let her fuss or babble for a bit and sometimes she'll go back down on her own. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/advice-on-early-wake-ups#post-291181 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:31:33 +0000 Rubies 291181@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah, LO went through this and we let her CIO until 6am. At 6am, if she was still yelling at us or was unhappy, we would go get her. Once in a while, she'd wake up at around 4am and after about 10 minutes of yelling, she'd fall asleep again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/advice-on-early-wake-ups#post-291179 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:24:48 +0000 Mrs. Bee 291179@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaCate: charlie's sleep was already good when he dropped his 3rd nap so dropping the nap didn't affect his sleep at all. he was an early riser for a long time though, and it got better as he got older and as we limited his naps.</p> <p>it sounds like she's not napping that long though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/advice-on-early-wake-ups#post-287594 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 13:08:10 +0000 looch 287594@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You can also try wake to sleep.</p> <p>You go in and disrupt their sleep cycle about an hour before they wake up. It is supposed to reset their clocks, but I was always to chicken to try it. I dealt with early wakeups from 13 months to about oh, this past Friday? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/advice-on-early-wake-ups#post-287592 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 13:06:45 +0000 MamaCate 287592@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Bee: thanks! She has just figured out crawling and combining it with pulling up and cruising sso you are right that there is a loyt going on deveopmentttally. As far as naps, she sometimes takes 3 at home with us but is more often down to 2. At daycare it varies: yesterdday i spite of being up forever,she took 1 30 minute nap!</p> <p>Once you dropped the third nap did that help their night sleep? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/advice-on-early-wake-ups#post-285948 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:53:03 +0000 Mrs. Bee 285948@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>9 months is a very common age for sleep regressions. Their little brains are working on so many things! 9 months is when Charlie and Olive dropped their 3rd nap. How many naps is your LO taking?</p> <p>A bunch of Charlie's friends cio'd early morning wakeups and it worked for them. We never did it though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/advice-on-early-wake-ups#post-285938 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:50:00 +0000 MamaCate 285938@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is now 9 months old. We have not sleep trained but she has been going down around 7, waking once to eat, and then waking up around 6-6:30. I lliked it better when she slept until closer to 7 but i could live with it. Now, the past 3 nights she has not woken up to eat but has been up and raring to go at 5:45, 5:15, and now 4:55 today!</p> <p>This morning i tried to feed her and get her back down but she wouldnt have it. I am just tired...thank goodness it is friday.</p> <p>Has anyone been through this? Any advice or words of encouragement? </p>