RJ has always been a fantastic sleeper for me -- he's slept through the night every night since he was 4.5 months old, except for a few nights here and there when he was sick or teething. His sleep schedule is pretty much 7am-7pm. However, every now and then we run into this problem: he poops around 4 or 5am, and wakes up crying. Sometimes if we leave him, he eventually stops crying and goes back to sleep. I'm just too afraid that if we go in to change his diaper and put him back down he will get upset and want to stay up. Sometimes if we leave him, he stays up all morning and it just turns into a super early wakeup. I know the simple answer is for everyone to be sure to go to bed early so that a 5am wakeup isn't so disastrous. But until he's potty trained (I don't think he's ready yet, he's 22 months but doesn't ask for diaper changes or anything yet) how do we avoid this? Some nights we try to prolong bedtime to give him a chance to poop before bed, but I hate to keep him up until 8pm because he just gets so tired and crazy for bedtime.
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I feel your pain. I've had ZERO success controlling wake-up time, which I'm really dreading now that it's almost time to puch the clocks back meaning my daughter will want to wake at 5:45am, instead of the already early 6:45am.
The only thing that's worked for me when my daughter (who is 21.5 months) wakes earlier than usual (like 5-something instead of 6-something)- is to act like it's late an night. I'll change her diaper and rock her for a few minutes and then put her back down. We have pretty good blinds in her room that keep it dark, so that helps.
Wish I had useful advice. I'm eager to see if other parents have some suggestions.
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I don't know what you do about the early poops ..maybe start potty training? I think he is old enough at 22 months to start? But I don't know much about it, my daughter is only 17 months.
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Piper doesn't poop at night (or early am) and even when she does it doesn't wake her up, but no matter what she is up at 5:30! Every day! Even if we try to put how down later, she wakes up EARLIER! So we try to put her down earlier... still up at 5:30. It's a total nightmare.
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