Early Mornings
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Topic: Early Mornings
Posted By: mummymonster
Subject: Early Mornings
Date Posted: 19 May 2010 at 6:46am
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DS is convinced morning starts at 5am. I'd much prefer it if he'd move it to 6am.
He used to have a bed time of 6:30, I've moved it to 7, but it if anything it's made the mornings worse. Any ideas? When he wakes at 5, if he's happy we just leave him till 6. If he's unhappy we try to "settle" him, but don't get him out of the cot. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 19 May 2010 at 11:20am
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later bedtimes dont mean later mornings unfortunately, it just means they get less sleep.
i used to treat all wakings up till 5am like night wakings... a quick feed then back to bed... or you could try taking back to your bed. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: Peanut
Date Posted: 19 May 2010 at 11:41am
Too True! I have an early waker, he has always woken at 5-5.30am so am use to starting my day at that time now after 2.5 years. I tried everything to get him to sleep later. Now at 2.5 he sleeps until around 6am on a good day. When he was littler I used to chuck him in bed with us and sometimes he would sleep or I would take him to the lounge, leave the lights dimmed and I would cat nap on the couch while he played until breakfast time at 6.45am. Now I just get up and do my jobs 
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Bizzy wrote:Posted By: SpecialK
Date Posted: 19 May 2010 at 2:23pm
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How many sleeps is he having during the day? We found that once he was down to 2 he started sleeping a bit longer.
But we always treat anything earlier than 6.30am as night time waking - so a feed/drink or a cuddle and back to bed. Good luck, I hate those early starts! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: monikah
Date Posted: 19 May 2010 at 4:00pm
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im the same as specialK except its 7 in our house but he is happy enough with that so we are lucky. have you done the whole black out curtains and stuff? ------------- 
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 19 May 2010 at 4:53pm
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We are much the same as Peanut here. We have been a
"Yay she slept in til 6am" House here for 3 1/2years! Check out the sleepstores info tho, thy have really good articles that may help you work out what is causing the early waking adn suggest ways to improve it. Any time starting with a 5 is the middle of the night
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Posted By: millymollymandy
Date Posted: 19 May 2010 at 5:54pm
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I had this exact problem last week. I contacted the sleepstore they suggested:
-a warmer sleeping bag -dream feed at 10pm ( was doing it at 9.30) -moving the first day sleep forward a bit, i.e. later. The warmer sleeping bag worked a treat! Turns out she was getting cold as this is the coldest time in the moving. haved moved the morning sleep forward by 10 minutes. Personally I would avoid feeding him at 5 if at all possible, I have found that (1) mucks up feeding for rest of day and (2) creates inconsisties and you run the risk of him wanting it when he wakes at other times in the night (at least that my experince) and given that he likes eating and is doign well on that front why muck it up. He doesn't sette after a cuddle or if he's just awake and playing I'd just wait till 6 before getting him up. |
Posted By: mummymonster
Date Posted: 19 May 2010 at 6:48pm
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Warmer might help - think I'll give it a go ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: millymollymandy
Date Posted: 20 May 2010 at 7:23am
| How did you go? We had another early start today. Grggh...she makes up for it by sleeping longer in the morning but still! Might up the heater temp its very cold here this morning. |
Posted By: mummymonster
Date Posted: 20 May 2010 at 8:16pm
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He was up for over an hour at 2am.
We ended up giving him a bottle at 3am (couldn't think of anything else to do). DH rocked him back to sleep around 3:30am. Then he slept in! I have no idea  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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