https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:29:51 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-my-13-month-old-has-become-a-veeeery-early-riser#post-2728514 Mon, 24 Apr 2017 18:37:52 +0000 Mrs. Goose 2728514@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>One nap helped early waking for mine too. Went to one nap at 11 months to be on a daycare nap schedule.</p> <p>Also agree with treat it as a night wake and even if they stay awake they stay in their bed either with you in there or not. If my daughter is upset I stay in her room beside the crib and she'll usually be quiet or fall back asleep with back patting or my presence. She's 18 months old now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-my-13-month-old-has-become-a-veeeery-early-riser#post-2728452 Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:18:09 +0000 Portboston 2728452@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When we started getting early wakings is when I switched to one nap. It was around 13 months also. But my little guy never ever (still doesn't) take good naps. It did solve the early wakings though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-my-13-month-old-has-become-a-veeeery-early-riser#post-2728449 Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:15:11 +0000 ShootingStar 2728449@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think all you can do is treat it as a night waking as much as you can. Don't talk, keeps lights off, etc. Don't encourage him to think that 4:30 is an ok time to get up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-my-13-month-old-has-become-a-veeeery-early-riser#post-2728383 Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:42:22 +0000 PawPrints 2728383@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@erinbaderin: We did leave her in her crib; but there were a lot of mornings when she just cried loudly for 45+ minutes. No idea if that was the right choice or not. I guess at least maybe it helped avoid establishing an association for her between early crying and an extra nursing session? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-my-13-month-old-has-become-a-veeeery-early-riser#post-2728381 Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:39:38 +0000 erinbaderin 2728381@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PawPrints: @snowjewelz: Honestly, grit it out is kind of the answer I was looking for because it requires nothing from me, I just wanted somebody else to tell me that it was ok. The benefit of a second baby is that for the most part I can remind myself that everything is a phase, but then I start second guessing myself and wondering if there's something I should be doing other than crossing my fingers this is short-lived.</p> <p>Would you leave him in his crib to work it out? I've been going in and nursing him and then putting him back down until about 5:30, when we usually just get up with him out of guilt and a desire for him to not wake up his big brother. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-my-13-month-old-has-become-a-veeeery-early-riser#post-2728380 Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:38:37 +0000 SweetiePie 2728380@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It probably is a phase and just need to grind it out.<br /> We still (2.5) deal with early wake ups like a night waking. For example, today he woke at 6am which is early for him. He called for me so I went in and treated it like night time. Lights stay off and door is shut. I don't talk just whisper that it's still night time. Rock him for a minute or two and put him back down with his lovey and blanket.<br /> Then when it's normal wake up time we turn on the lights and say "good morning" and make a big to do. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-my-13-month-old-has-become-a-veeeery-early-riser#post-2728377 Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:37:02 +0000 Alba4 2728377@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 10 month old does this too, but thankfully not consistently. It's about once a week and it sucks. I think he's teething , but I wonder if it's because he started to crawl super fast, pull to standing, etc so maybe it's all that development? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-my-13-month-old-has-become-a-veeeery-early-riser#post-2728371 Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:32:13 +0000 snowjewelz 2728371@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Same. DD1 has gone through so many phases! I agree that eventually they stop being weird. She is 2 now and pretty consistently sleeps till 6:30-7. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-my-13-month-old-has-become-a-veeeery-early-riser#post-2728352 Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:20:14 +0000 PawPrints 2728352@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Grit it out. Sorry. We went through several phases like this and nothing helped. Just more bumps in the road! DD is 24 months now and sleeps until 6 or 7, so, it does get better. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-my-13-month-old-has-become-a-veeeery-early-riser#post-2728321 Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:49:31 +0000 erinbaderin 2728321@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For the last week W (13 months) has become an early riser. Like, 4:30am every day. Waking up overnight is not unusual, he's still up once a night on a fairly regular basis to nurse, although he had been phasing this out. Usually, though, he'd wake up fussing, I'd nurse him, and he'd go right back to sleep until 6. But in the past week or so he wakes up at 4:30 and whether I nurse him or not he's up. He seems to be trying to get back to sleep, he lies down, but he cries at first sporadically and then more and more, and then he's standing up yelling his little head off. </p> <p>He still takes two naps a day but I don't think he's ready to go down to one because he goes to sleep pretty easily and sleeps for at least an hour, usually 90 minutes or more. He goes to bed at 7 and falls asleep on his own, usually in minutes. It's possible that he's teething (I HOPE he's teething, he only has 4 teeth) and he recently got over a virus, but he's gotten both sick and teeth before and hasn't been affected like this.</p> <p>Any advice? If it's a growth spurt or a wonder week or a sleep regression and I just need to grit it out that's fine, I get up for work at 5 anyway, it's just not ideal, but if there's something that I could be doing to help I'd love to know what it is. </p>