https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:50:02 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-for-early-morning-wakeups-1#post-2302813 Sat, 26 Sep 2015 00:01:21 +0000 gingerbebe 2302813@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For my son, he actually wakes earlier when he doesn't get enough daytime sleep. I'm not sure if you can get his naps extended since he's in daycare, but could you maybe try putting him to bed earlier and see if it helps? It looks like he's only getting like 11-12 hours of sleep a day which seems like it's on the lower end. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-for-early-morning-wakeups-1#post-2302795 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 22:27:43 +0000 Foodnerd81 2302795@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh to echo a few others, most of the time I just won't accept that it's morning. So if we go in and try to get her back to sleep, even if it doesn't work I won't turn on the lights or leave the room until like 6:30. Something about not wanting to set her internal clock that it's morning that early or something. I read about something like that on the child sleep science website and maybe I have it jumbled up but it sort of makes sense. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-for-early-morning-wakeups-1#post-2302791 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 22:05:04 +0000 jape14 2302791@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did the same thing as @LBee: and it worked, even after 3-4 weeks of 5/5:30 wakeups. One other random thing I noticed: our AC kicks on pretty regularly in the early morning and I think the noise contributed to his wakeups. (There's a ceiling vent fairly close to his crib.) Maybe something to look into? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-for-early-morning-wakeups-1#post-2302780 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:45:11 +0000 plantains 2302780@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DD woke up at 5 or 5.30 pretty much until right before she turned 2. Then it became 6.30 but then just before 2 she saturated sleeping until 7.30 or 8. So hang in there, I an a WOHM too so I know it sucks, but we had no choice but to embrace it because even though CIO worked for everything else if never worked for the morning wake ups </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-for-early-morning-wakeups-1#post-2302769 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:06:05 +0000 MrsSRS 2302769@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think this happened at the same age for us but my memory is hazy. It lasted a few weeks. Eventually I just started treating it like a night waking and pretty much refusing to allow it to be morning before 6am. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-for-early-morning-wakeups-1#post-2302654 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:10:25 +0000 Foodnerd81 2302654@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@CakeLady: then I'm sorry I have no help to offer. It sucks so much. Can you and dh at least switch off who gets up early? :crying: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-for-early-morning-wakeups-1#post-2302652 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:06:47 +0000 CakeLady 2302652@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: glad to hear she worked it out! I am tired!<br /> he naps from 12-1 or 1:30 most days, never ever later than 3 - on the super rare occasion when he does sleep that long (twice ever) we usually move bedtime back 30 minutes. And yes to blackout shades (+blackout curtains + regular curtains) it is dark in there!😎 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-for-early-morning-wakeups-1#post-2302642 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:52:15 +0000 Foodnerd81 2302642@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh and I'm assuming you already have blackout curtains in the room so it's not the sun waking her? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-for-early-morning-wakeups-1#post-2302640 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:51:23 +0000 Foodnerd81 2302640@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@CakeLady: we've had this on and off and have tried a few different things. Who knows what worked and what was just her working it or herself, but these are things I tried. </p> <p>CIO in the morning never worked for us. I have read it's the hardest time for them to fall back asleep because they don't have enough built up sleep pressure, even though they are obviously still tired. We used to be able to bring her into the bed in the nursery and lay down with her and she would fall back asleep. That didn't work if it was getting close to her normal wake up time, but if it was five or earlier usually worked. </p> <p>I suspected her naps were too late and long and causing the morning wake ups. So I moved nap back to 1, instead of 1:30, and tried not letting her sleep more than 90 minutes. It sucked to wake her up from nap but not as much as getting up at 5 sucked. She's back in a better sleep place now and I just make sure she is up by 4 but that's rarely a problem. </p> <p>Maybe you could ask daycare to limit her naps to 1.5 hours for a week and see if t helps? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-for-early-morning-wakeups-1#post-2302588 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:08:24 +0000 Mrs. Cookie 2302588@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@CakeLady: Hmm, it's cloudy! It took weeks. We weren't consistent because some days he slept a little later. We had a rule that we stuck to about 75% of the time, not getting him up before 6 am. Recently he's been sleeping later, almost til 7, and I think it's just because he's tired from all his new walking. Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-for-early-morning-wakeups-1#post-2302586 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:06:14 +0000 CakeLady 2302586@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Tanjowen: Thanks! Baby sleep is truly mysterious and frustrating. Unfortunately, unless this is a LONG phase, I am afraid this is a habit. Though I would be thrilled if he just snapped out of it all of a sudden! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-for-early-morning-wakeups-1#post-2302577 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:01:33 +0000 Tanjowen 2302577@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So as of a week ago, I could have written all your sleep posts. My LO woke up at 530, was angry and upset and obviously needed sleep, but refused to go back to bed. It was a month long nasty stage that I unfortunately had a lot of early mornings and he had a lot of early bedtimes to catch up on sleep. It sorted itself and now he's sleeping until 630 /7 am and waking up a happy boy again. </p> <p>I don't have a clue why it happened. He wasn't teething, wasn't sick and no big life changes. Babies and sleep just suck at times! Hang I'm there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-for-early-morning-wakeups-1#post-2302524 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:10:36 +0000 CakeLady 2302524@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@princessandthebee: Glad to hear CIO worked for you too! Did it take a long time? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-for-early-morning-wakeups-1#post-2302523 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:09:43 +0000 Mrs. Cookie 2302523@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son has been waking up SUPER early as well! He is 14 months now but all summer his wake-up time kept getting earlier and earlier, in the 5:15- 5:45 range.</p> <p>We had to try letting him CIO. And it's worked. he sleeps til after six some days now but not every day... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-for-early-morning-wakeups-1#post-2302508 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:02:26 +0000 CakeLady 2302508@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LBee: Thank you for replying to my posts - glad this my son is normal, but sad that this happens to other people. I guess it is time to suck it up and let him CIO, I think it in the long run it will be better for him (and us!) to be well rested, he's just gotten in the habit of waking up early. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-for-early-morning-wakeups-1#post-2302493 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:52:08 +0000 LBee 2302493@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm all over your sleep posts today.</p> <p>We had the same issue and we tried everything (including bringing him to bed with us - which stopped working). Eventually CIO was the only thing that worked long-term. We also have to be really diligent about not just slipping back into our habits and pulling him into bed with us when he cries. I think I said on your last post, though, that I went through a stage of considering just embracing the early morning wake-ups. I actually walled Mr. Bee about it and he gave some great advice (as I remembered they did that with Charlie). Ultimately I'm a full-time WOHM and I was too damn tired to "embrace 5 AM." One morning I just put a pillow over my head and let him cry. The next morning it was 15 minutes shorter or crying and then he laid down. The morning after that he slept all the way until we woke him up. </p> <p>As an aside, waking him up also addressed your other question of him waking up grumpy! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-for-early-morning-wakeups-1#post-2302481 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:47:31 +0000 CakeLady 2302481@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sleep is on my mind today...</p> <p>I posted a while ago about LO's early morning wake-ups and was hoping it was just a phase. Unfortunately waking up between 5:00 and 5:30am seems to be the norm and the rare 6/6:30 wake-ups are more of a phase :crying: </p> <p>Usually he is crying/screaming when he wakes up and is still really tired, we've tried rocking him back to sleep, bringing him in our bed, and leaving him for a little while. When we go get him he will sometimes fall back to sleep and other times try to get up and play. When we leave him he usually screams louder, very rarely he'll go back to sleep.</p> <p>This is not working for any of us. We need to change something. Any advice? If CIO is the solution we are open to that, but open to other options as well!</p> <p>In case it helps you sleep experts to diagnose the problem or offer a solution: DS is 16 months, and bed time is 7pm. He takes one nap that can be anywhere from 1-2.5 hours, he's in daycare so 5 days a week I don't have much control over it. </p>