https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 07 May 2026 03:49:18 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/scheduled-awakenings#post-2181746 Mon, 18 May 2015 11:46:52 +0000 looch 2181746@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have heard of this, it's called "wake to sleep" and I seriously considered it to address my son's 5 am wakeups.</p> <p>The Baby Whisperer has all kinds of information on it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/scheduled-awakenings#post-2181742 Mon, 18 May 2015 11:45:17 +0000 Mrs.Someone 2181742@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: @raintreebee: @BabyTsMom: I know the idea sounds bizarre! But the thought is that if you wake them up before they were already going to wake up, then you "reset" their clock slowly. Supposedly it works, though it wouldn't solve the problem of falling asleep by himself for naps and nighttime. His wakings are pretty consistent right now, and at 3-4/night :P</p> <p>We're still thinking about this one, but I don't like any of the other options. CIO isn't for us, and the slowing taking sleep props away sounds like gamboling to me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/scheduled-awakenings#post-2181251 Sun, 17 May 2015 22:56:29 +0000 BabyTsMom 2181251@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Never heard of it, but the thought makes me cringe! I also could never do dream feeds for the same reason. What if it backfires and you can't soothe them back down? Could it be teething or milestones that are disrupting his sleep lately? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/scheduled-awakenings#post-2181210 Sun, 17 May 2015 21:25:06 +0000 jedeve 2181210@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No idea for babies, but I do that with my toddler. If he skips a nap, he is more likely to have a night terror, so I wake him up a bit before we go to bed. It's supposed to help reset them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/scheduled-awakenings#post-2181158 Sun, 17 May 2015 20:20:55 +0000 ellewoods84 2181158@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have never tried it, but I have read about people doing it for naps to extend the nap and having success. But, I would never wake up my baby at night....haha. I would just think like, oh what if they weren't going to wake up, but I woke them and now they are up and I can't resettle her? If your baby was previously a decent sleeper prior to the regression, perhaps once it passes they will go back to what they were doing before. We finally did CIO for MOTN wake ups around 10 months, so I don't have any other advice, but good luck:) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/scheduled-awakenings#post-2181141 Sun, 17 May 2015 20:01:34 +0000 raintreebee 2181141@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In general, I'm not a fan of interrupting sleep since you may be waking them from an important part of the sleep cycle. That's why I never did dream feeds. Wish I had advice for you. We did CIO at 9 months to sleep through the night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/scheduled-awakenings#post-2180917 Sun, 17 May 2015 13:54:37 +0000 Foodnerd81 2180917@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs.Someone: to be honest, that sounds awful to me! But my LO could be really hard to south back to sleep so the idea of waking her only to try to get her back to sleep doesn't make sense to me. Nothing really worked to cut down the motn wake ups for us but time. :( She started sttn at 9 months on her own (but we did previously do CIO for falling asleep- it just did not work for motn). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/scheduled-awakenings#post-2180873 Sun, 17 May 2015 12:19:46 +0000 Mrs.Someone 2180873@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're having a rough time with what could be the 9mo sleep regression. Baby is waking up at least 4x/night. I'm not OK with CIO, but I found a new method called "Scheduled Awakenings". The idea is you wake the baby a half hour before he normally wakes up, and soothe him back to sleep. Then after a few days, start moving that time back until he sleeps through it. Has anyone tried something like this? </p>