https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:44:09 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/not-going-down-after-early-am-feed#post-1548167 Sat, 05 Apr 2014 14:13:27 +0000 Pirouette 1548167@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@rahlyrah: thanks! I know, it's not fun at all, but it makes me feel better to think it's a phase and not something we're doing wrong! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/not-going-down-after-early-am-feed#post-1548126 Sat, 05 Apr 2014 13:36:56 +0000 Ra 1548126@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pirouette: My LO did the same thing around that age. It only lasted a few weeks and then he went back to his normal wake time! Good luck! I know it's not fun. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/not-going-down-after-early-am-feed#post-1547894 Sat, 05 Apr 2014 10:04:13 +0000 Pirouette 1547894@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Yoyo: thanks. Yea I agree with that - I think I'll start putting the mobile on and letting her chill for a while...even if I can catch an extra 20 minutes of sleep that way it's worth it! And at least I won't be teaching her that 5am is playtime. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/not-going-down-after-early-am-feed#post-1547870 Sat, 05 Apr 2014 09:51:22 +0000 Mrs. Yoyo 1547870@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pirouette: I would get up and feed as normal, and if he didn't fall back asleep, I would leave him in his crib as long as he was happy. If not I would let him roll around on our bed but still keep the lights low. I figured I had nothing to gain by treating it like the beginning of the morning, you know? And then I would try to put him down again as soon as he started getting fussy, which would usually be sooner than normal wake times during the day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/not-going-down-after-early-am-feed#post-1547862 Sat, 05 Apr 2014 09:47:45 +0000 Pirouette 1547862@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jetsa: haha! No worries, I can't add either when I'm woken up at 5am :wink: </p> <p>@Mrs. Yoyo: that's encouraging! She's working on it too. So did you just get up with him early for a while? Or did you find anything that helped? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/not-going-down-after-early-am-feed#post-1547838 Sat, 05 Apr 2014 09:16:51 +0000 Mrs. Yoyo 1547838@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We've been dealing with this off and on too. I think it's mostly developmental. LO was working on rolling hardcore over the past month. Now that he seems to have mastered it (22 weeks) he's sleeping better again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/not-going-down-after-early-am-feed#post-1547834 Sat, 05 Apr 2014 09:09:44 +0000 jetsa 1547834@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pirouette: i can't add lol. I completely understand for some reason I was thinking she was going down later than that. I have no advice then :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/not-going-down-after-early-am-feed#post-1547819 Sat, 05 Apr 2014 08:58:40 +0000 Pirouette 1547819@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jetsa: the weird thing is she's been putting herself down earlier! She went to sleep at 9 every night consistently for a while, and usually would take a cat nap at 7 but wake to eat a little more before going down for the night. But lately, she's been going down for the night between 7 and 8 (unswaddled, because I keep thinking its a cat nap ha). I'm not sure how to get her down earlier, since I get home at 6 and she likes to cluster feed for a while and nurses to sleep. And wouldn't she then wake up even earlier? Like 4? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/not-going-down-after-early-am-feed#post-1547809 Sat, 05 Apr 2014 08:52:09 +0000 jetsa 1547809@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd start putting her to bed earlier and counting that as her wakeup time. Sleep is so kid dependent but DS goes down at 7, eats at 10 and 2 and is up at 6. I really wanted him to go to bed at 8 bc it gives us more time together at night but he wasn't having it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/not-going-down-after-early-am-feed#post-1547793 Sat, 05 Apr 2014 08:44:45 +0000 Pirouette 1547793@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My lo is 16 weeks, so I realize we are not in the greatest of sleep phases...but the past week she's been waking up hungry most mornings around 5-5:30am (generally after a 9.5 hr stretch). I treat it as a night waking and leave the lights off and feed her in bed and most days she eats for a while and dozes off. In the past, I've picked her up, burped her, and put her back down to sleep and it's worked fine. But lately, every time I pick her up at that time to burp her, she wakes up fully and then is up and wants to play! And then I can't get her back down for around 2 hours when she's ready to nap. </p> <p>I can't tell if this is her waking for the day, in which case trying to get her back to sleep would be hopeless. But she seems exhausted at that time, so I'm guessing she's not ready to be up for the day just yet. Also, it means she's sleeping 9.5 hrs at night, and I think babies are supposed to get more than that? She used to get at least an hour more at night. </p> <p>Any tips on avoiding this? Or is this just a manifestation of the 4 month regression and I should just hope this is the worst it gets? She's also been really congested in the am, so we've had to Frieda her at that hour a few times, which doesn't help matters!! </p>