https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:20:41 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tipstricks-for-getting-lo-to-sleep-longer-in-the-am#post-876232 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 09:47:08 +0000 NovBaby1112 876232@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: yea the third nap is tough sometimes, but usually a little boob knocks her out lol, if not, I pop her in the stroller and that works too. She has been napping around 8:30/9am for 1.5 hrs, 1pm for 1.5 hrs, and then a quick 30/45 min nap around 5/5:30. I don't let her nap past 6 tho. It's been working great the last few nights, which surprised me. Today she even slept in til 7:30 and she hasn't done that in forever! Prob shouldn't have let her bc now our schedule is thrown off but I wanted to sleep in lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tipstricks-for-getting-lo-to-sleep-longer-in-the-am#post-876219 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 09:31:44 +0000 tinyperson 876219@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@rattles: thanks! Thank goodness she's cute! We were up at 5 this morning too...we've been getting by with a nap together. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tipstricks-for-getting-lo-to-sleep-longer-in-the-am#post-876199 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 09:14:06 +0000 rattles 876199@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tinyperson: I have no suggestions, only empathy. LO is in our room too, and while she used to sleep in later in our bed, no longer. I was up again at 5 today. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tipstricks-for-getting-lo-to-sleep-longer-in-the-am#post-876177 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 09:03:16 +0000 tinyperson 876177@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks everyone...the added problem in the mix is that her crib is still in our room. DH gets up at 6:15, so I know if LO wakes up at 5:30, I could spend half an hour getting her back to sleep, only to have her wake up again in 15 minutes.</p> <p>We're heading to the in laws next week, and once we get back, we're moving her crib to her room. Maybe that'll help! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tipstricks-for-getting-lo-to-sleep-longer-in-the-am#post-876166 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 08:56:41 +0000 hilsy85 876166@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NovBaby1112: my Lo is the same!! We've also been trying to do 3 naps and a later bedtime but he fights that 3rd nap? When do you try to wake your Lo up from her 3rd nap by? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tipstricks-for-getting-lo-to-sleep-longer-in-the-am#post-876155 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 08:44:13 +0000 aprk 876155@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Kemma: that's what I was going to recommend! It helps us so much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tipstricks-for-getting-lo-to-sleep-longer-in-the-am#post-876151 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 08:41:08 +0000 NovBaby1112 876151@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We went through this phase for awhile around 5-7 months...even after we sleep trained she was still waking bright and early (anytime between 5 and 5:45), 6 was sleeping in! We started not getting her out of her crib before 6. She would never really cry, just play in there. I think it was a combo of being a phase and me just realizing she wasn't one of those babies who needed 12 hours of overnight sleep. She is more of a 10-11 hours baby, but naps about 3-4 hours a day. So what we started doing was putting her to bed later, like 8/830, and she has been sleeping in until 630/7 with that bedtime. She is now back to 3 naps a day with the later bedtime when we were at 2 naps with the earlier bedtime, but it is working for us now </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tipstricks-for-getting-lo-to-sleep-longer-in-the-am#post-876105 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 08:06:39 +0000 Weagle 876105@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hmm... We're going through one of those phases again. I typically just bring her to bed and nurse side-lying and hope she goes back to sleep. I do think, as with most things, time is the best trick, and she will figure it out eventually. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tipstricks-for-getting-lo-to-sleep-longer-in-the-am#post-876018 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 07:19:23 +0000 tinyperson 876018@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@edelweiss: she takes a pacifier, but at that point in the morning it doesn't put her back to sleep. It just quiets her for 5-10 minutes until she spits it out... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tipstricks-for-getting-lo-to-sleep-longer-in-the-am#post-876014 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 07:17:25 +0000 tinyperson 876014@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Kemma: she won't sleep in our bed. Like the others, she just plays for a while, then gets fed up and cries. If this is a phase, it's a long one! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tipstricks-for-getting-lo-to-sleep-longer-in-the-am#post-875999 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 07:10:41 +0000 edelweiss 875999@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we have been dealing with this off and on for several weeks--there was 1 week where he was consistently getting up around 4.30 (1 hour before his normal wakeup time). i looked up some previous threads and people say it's a phase, but as to how long this phase lasts, who knows!</p> <p>oddly, there was one time where i looked on the monitor and saw that his arm was stuck in the slats. so i went in, quickly moved him and left (soothing/rocking/etc. doesn't work with him). he cried harder for about a minute and then oddly, went back to sleep. </p> <p>would a pacifier work?</p> <p>sorry i'm no help, but i empathize! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tipstricks-for-getting-lo-to-sleep-longer-in-the-am#post-875948 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 06:18:40 +0000 SleepyMonkey 875948@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: same. if we bring L to bed with us, she thinks its time to play! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tipstricks-for-getting-lo-to-sleep-longer-in-the-am#post-875921 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 05:58:02 +0000 hilsy85 875921@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I also have this issue, Lo is often up at 530--not cool! Bedsharing doesn't work for us as he wants to play once r gets into bed with me. I'm hoping its just a phase! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tipstricks-for-getting-lo-to-sleep-longer-in-the-am#post-875886 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 05:00:35 +0000 Kemma 875886@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Have you tried bed-sharing with her from when she wakes up?</p> <p>If my LO wakes up after 0530 but before 0700 I can often nurse back to sleep and crawl back in to bed with her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tipstricks-for-getting-lo-to-sleep-longer-in-the-am#post-875881 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 04:42:05 +0000 tinyperson 875881@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Does anyone have any tips/tricks for getting a 6 month old to sleep past 5am?</p> <p>LO sleeps from 6:30 or 7 till anywhere between 4:30 and 6:30 with 1-2 feedings. Getting to 6:30 has been unheard of lately.</p> <p>I've tried feeding her and putting her back down, rocking her, soother, letting her cry and combinations of those. She either laughs and kicks her feet for a while then cries or just cries. </p> <p>She's tired less than 2 hours later. If I put her to bed later, she'll sleep longer, but it's usually the same number of hours. Also her last nap ends 4 or 4:30, and she's tired and cranky by bedtime, so pushing it back is hard. </p>