https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 29 May 2026 22:07:03 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2454640 Tue, 09 Feb 2016 08:13:12 +0000 Ncharette 2454640@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Modern Daisy: can i ask how old your little one is now and when they started to sleep a little later? Our situation sounds exactly like yours and I am desperate. Your story gives me a bit of hope! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2454638 Tue, 09 Feb 2016 08:12:04 +0000 Ncharette 2454638@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Modern Daisy: can I ask how old your lo is now? And when did they start to sleep a little later? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2454534 Tue, 09 Feb 2016 01:06:57 +0000 PawPrints 2454534@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Totally agree to just let her do her thing. DD is the same age as your LO and she's in a Wonder Week (wonder month, really) and cutting at least two teeth, possibly more, and wake times are all over the place. Sometimes she goes back to sleep, sometimes not. Yesterday, she woke up at 5 something, I nursed her (I always nurse her in bed when she wakes up, regardless of the time), and DH put her back in her crib, and all three of us slept until 8:30. Completely nuts. But we just roll with it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2454209 Mon, 08 Feb 2016 21:43:01 +0000 lioneyes 2454209@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>is there any way to make the 2nd nap earlier? so they are more tired at bedtime ? i found that a 2/3/4 hours awake sched really worked at this age. also, around 10/11 months there is definitely a sleep regression and it will go back to normal...and if it doesn't soon, there's always the time change coming up! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2454130 Mon, 08 Feb 2016 20:25:13 +0000 Littlebit7 2454130@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PrincessBaby: I'm totally trying to go this route. Currently I'm just letting her do her thing. Today she woke at 630 (better!!) napped 45 min in the am and literally 2.5 hours starting at 2:30. I had to WAKE her at 5 pm.<br /> So obviously her little body is just doing its thing and needing sleep when she needs her sleep. I've been trying to let myself let it be :)<br /> @winniebee: oh my gosh that must have been brutal. Sleep deprivation is bad enough in the early months but eesh. That's rough<br /> @Modern Daisy: I hope our situation is different too! We have a different but similar problem. She wakes angry from her afternoon long nap. Probably 80% of the time no idea why. It's typically a nice nap</p> <p>I'm going to keep her on two naps. My gut says she still needs them. </p> <p>I've said it before and I'll say it again. Sleep and poop are life's great baby mysteries!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2454068 Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:38:40 +0000 winniebee 2454068@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My first was up before 6 every day until he turned 14 months. When we finally put him on one nap he slept a little later 730-6 or 630 instead of 730-530. He never took a monster nap though and was almost always crabby after his nap. </p> <p>Our second is a little better, but is almost always up by 630 - he's 14m and on 2 naps. There was a phase from like 6-9 months were he would have a night waking AND be up for the day by 530-6. Brutal. My kids just don't sleep as much as other kids! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2454055 Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:30:08 +0000 Ncharette 2454055@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our situation sounds exactly like modern daisy. My 22 month old wakes usually at 530( sometimes earlier, sometimes later).6 am is a sleep in. It has been going on for at least a year as well- since around 9-10 months, for unknown reason. We have tried everything- later bedtime, earlier bedtime etc. Nothing has helped. He also wakes up crabby and needs more sleep, but just won't. He is so happy when he wakes last 6. Can I ask how old your little one is now modern daisy? Your story gives me hope! We also cannot get past 630-7 bedtime. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2453221 Mon, 08 Feb 2016 09:40:16 +0000 snowjewelz 2453221@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had phases like that too. After DST DD was waking at 6am, then eventually, before Christmas, she went back to waking around 7am, lately she's back to waking at 6-6:30am. She only sleeps like 10 hours at night, doesn't matter if she had 1 or 2 naps that day! </p> <p>I usually just let it go if she's not fighting naps/bedtime or isn't waking up upset. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2453128 Mon, 08 Feb 2016 07:55:22 +0000 Modern Daisy 2453128@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I really hope your situation is different, but when my lo started doing this around 10 months, it lasted over a year. He just finally started "sleeping in" until 6:30/7am again and it's been glorious.</p> <p>Honestly I never understood why. He was down to 1 nap during the day for about an hour and even when we skipped it he still woke early. His bedtime has always been 6:39/7pm and of course the peanut gallery would always point to this as the problem, haha, but when we tried pushing it back he was a MONSTER at night and woke even EARLIER in the morning. The thing that truly baffled me though was that he woke up tired and crabby every morning due to lack of sleep. He clearly needed to sleep in later, but just physically couldn't. But one day it was like a switch was flipped and he started waking later. We didn't change anything.. I think he just learned how to on his own.<br /> Good luck, I know it's really rough!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2453104 Mon, 08 Feb 2016 06:14:30 +0000 PrincessBaby 2453104@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have an awesome sleeper at 9.5 months, usually sleeps 7:30p to 8:30a or later. Suddenly the past few weeks she is waking at 3am some nights and we've almost always heard from her by 6am. I think it's just a phase. It can be attributed to teething, a growth spurt, a Wonder Week....There are so many things. </p> <p>With my first, I wanted to figure out the answer to everything she did - especially when it involved sleep! But with the second, I just accept that everything will change, and phases are temporary. She's been an awesome sleeper since she was 6w old, so nothing in me thinks this is her new normal. </p> <p>Sometimes their brains are just so busy with all of the new things they are learning. It affects their sleep cycles. DD2's MOTN wake ups have coincided with her new obsession with pulling up and standing. And speed crawling, lol. So I'm just chalking it up to that probably, or to teething pain.</p> <p>ETA: I wouldn't drop a nap yet. DD1 got put on a 1 nap schedule at 1 yr with day care. DD2 is with a nanny all day, so her schedule is her schedule, and I don't plan to change anything about it until after she's at least a year old. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2453079 Sun, 07 Feb 2016 23:48:27 +0000 MrsSRS 2453079@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd do what you're doing and ride it out. My kids both do this periodically. I wouldn't drop a nap, DS kept two naps until 20 months! Treat it like a night waking and if it doesn't go away after a week or two try moving bedtime 30 minutes earlier. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2453062 Sun, 07 Feb 2016 22:30:44 +0000 Winterbee15 2453062@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh that's early, I feel for you! It could definetly be a phase but for some perspective, DS (11.5 months) dropped to one nap on his own at 9 months. He wakes up around 730am, he falls asleep by 11:30am, takes a 2ish hour nap and then goes to bed at about 630-645. I couldn't believe he dropped it that early. I was in denial and kept trying to force him to take a nap earlier and he was NOT having it. If not a phase, maybe that late nap is the culprit? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2453058 Sun, 07 Feb 2016 22:19:21 +0000 Tanjowen 2453058@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For us it was a phase, from about 12-16 months we had early wakeups! We didn't drop to 1 nap until 15 months. It sucked, but coincided with LO learning to walk and a lot of cognitive growth and awareness. I utilized our guest bedroom and would grab LO and lay down with him and would succeed 50% of the time in getting more sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2453054 Sun, 07 Feb 2016 22:09:06 +0000 sapphire 2453054@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@brownepiano: I agree that it sounds like a phase. We have this happen for a few days to a week at a time and then it just stops. We won't go in her room before 6 am unless she is truly crying. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2453047 Sun, 07 Feb 2016 21:48:10 +0000 littlebug 2453047@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It might be time to drop that morning nap. Much to my dismay, D's old daycare dropped his morning nap at 8 months. 😲 I was floored. But he adjusted well - took a longer pm nap and slept in later (especially on weekends, when I didn't have to wake him up to get out of the house).</p> <p>ETA: I'd give it a couple weeks to see if it corrects itself before making any drastic sleep routine changes. It's only been a few days...baby sleep is weird! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2453009 Sun, 07 Feb 2016 20:24:59 +0000 SweetiePie 2453009@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Littlebit7: 10 months is way too early to go to one nap. 1 year is really the earliest and average is 15 months!<br /> Anytime this has happened we actually did an EARLIER bedtime and it corrected. It seems counterproductive but there is TONS of supporting literature that earlier bedtime can lead to better sleep and later wake ups. </p> <p>If that's not it then I would say it's for sure a phase. Keep things as constant as possible! My son has definitely thrown me for the "is he ready for 1 nap?" loop a few times and it was always a phase. Within 3 weeks or so he went back to his normal nap and night time schedule with no prompting from me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2452907 Sun, 07 Feb 2016 16:48:56 +0000 Alba4 2452907@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd try a later bedtime. Push it 30-45 minutes at first and see if that makes a difference. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2452734 Sun, 07 Feb 2016 13:19:53 +0000 FaithFertility 2452734@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD is an early riser! Doesn't matter if I put her to bed at 7 or 8 is usually up by 6-6:30</p> <p>We had many 5:30/5:40 mornings :(<br /> It's awful!<br /> Keep doing what you ate doing many leaps at 10 months </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2452728 Sun, 07 Feb 2016 13:12:41 +0000 brownepiano 2452728@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Littlebit7: I always wish my kid would sleep like clockwork (exactly 2.5 hour nap, exactly 12.5 hour night) but I have to remind myself that he's human too. </p> <p>6:15 sounds better! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2452590 Sun, 07 Feb 2016 09:26:36 +0000 Littlebit7 2452590@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@youboots: so what time did you change the nap to? She still seems like she needs a morning nap. Hmm I'll chew on this<br /> @brownepiano: that's a good point. I keep forgetting that sleep doesn't just even out at a magical point. I guess it makes sense that much like when she was a tiny infant and leanings a new skill that her sleep would go to crap<br /> @gingerbebe: that's comforting to hear!</p> <p>This morning she woke at 355! Thank god she went back to sleep. Still up for the day at 615 but at least the number on the clock started with a 6 instead of a 5!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2452212 Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:56:42 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 2452212@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think it's a phase! Or you could try a later bed time. My son only sleeps 10-11 hours and always has. So he would be up at that time too. And randomly is sometimes even though he goes to bed around 8! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2452209 Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:53:18 +0000 brownepiano 2452209@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh that sounds like it is just a phase. DS has had months where he would wake at 5:30 or 6, and months where he wakes at 7. He has had the same bedtime forever (6:30). We basically just insist he stays in bed till 6:30, but we can't control when he wakes up. </p> <p>That being said, does she seem like she is learning something new? Sometimes kid's sleep good to crap when they are learning a new skill. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2452208 Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:50:34 +0000 gingerbebe 2452208@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>10 months there's a lot of sleep disturbances - just keep doing what you're doing (i.e. Wait until you're within normal wake up time to go get her) and ride it out. A bunch of us in our birth club month had a bunch of MOTN wakings around this time too. It passes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2452207 Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:49:14 +0000 youboots 2452207@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I dropped T to a 1 nap schedule at 10 mo. Game changer. She sleeps more hours in the day now. STTN 12-14 hours. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/waking-super-early-in-the-morning-suddenly-wtf#post-2452206 Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:47:37 +0000 Littlebit7 2452206@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is 10 months to the day. In the past week her wake ups have gotten progressively earlier and I have no idea why. As in normally sleeping until 7-730 and today 540. Gah.<br /> Her schedule: naps from 930-1015. 45 min like clockwork<br /> Pm nap is 230 to 4 ish sometimes less but never more. Sometimes she wakes after 45 min but generally she will sleep again for 45 min after fussing for 5-10 min</p> <p>Night: bedtime at about 630/645 plus or minus depending on the last nap.<br /> Wake up: it USED to be 7 am on the dot. Over the past week it has become 540 (this morning)</p> <p>I don't know why!!!! She's not sick. Diaper isn't dirty. She's not cold I don't think. She's teething but has been for a few weeks. Wakes screaming.<br /> I'm hesitant to feed her because I don't want to create a habit. And she is def eating enough (milk and solids) during the day. I generally try to leave her in the crib to roll around and fuss (escalating to screaming) until 630. </p> <p>Any ideas? She seems too young to go to one nap. She can't stay up later than 7 before starting to lose it. </p>