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It's the worst when LO wakes up before 7! Usually she'll fall back asleep if I nurse her.

In the past (ie. before last week), if LO woke up between 5am-6am, I'd maker her CIO until at least 6am and then we'd be up for the day. But I discovered that if I nurse her in this window, she can go back to sleep until 8-8:30am. I discovered this by accident - last week she was crying at 5:20am and I was going to let her CIO but I thought I'd just get up. I nursed her and she seemed tired so I put her in her crib again and the next thing I know, I'm waking up to her babbling at 8:15! I've done this 4-5 more times.

@artbee: LO sleeps on a mattress on the floor so I'll just get next to her and feed her lying down. Works about 95% of the time!

LO used to wake up that early (sometimes 4am) and i would nurse him and put him back in the crib. he would sleep until 7:30 or 8. that was when he was 4-7 months old. Now that he is a little older, he refuses to go back to sleep even when he wakes up at 5:30am, so we're up for the day.

@Rubies: I don't have a LO but even I can see how awesome that is!!!

I know most of you are talking about infants/young toddlers, but I nannied a 2 year old (24-27 months), and I made him stay in his room until 6:30am if he woke up before then. He was really easygoing so he got used to it and would sort of roll around and talk to himself until I came and got him... but he would never go back to sleep!