Does anyone ever solve early waking?
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Topic: Does anyone ever solve early waking?
Posted By: millymollymandy
Subject: Does anyone ever solve early waking?
Date Posted: 03 November 2010 at 12:01pm
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Our 15 Month old DD is has decided that 5.30 is a good time to wake, not helped by 4 teeth popping thru. Have tried everything I can think of, pain releif, feeding, reassuarnce, leaving her and more food in evening. Nothing works!
She was sleeping till 6.30 - 7pm and napping 2-3 hours, but even her nap is now under 2 hours and often is grumpy when wakes. Has anyone ever solved this? What did you do? |
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Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 03 November 2010 at 5:06pm
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Might stop when the teeth are finally through.
BUT.........I'd pay a heap of money if my kids slept in! or slept through  ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 03 November 2010 at 5:23pm
| We have been a pre-6am house for 4yrs :S |
Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 03 November 2010 at 6:03pm
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I suspect it is naturally solved when our children reach their teens *sigh* -------------  
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Posted By: Caro07
Date Posted: 03 November 2010 at 8:02pm
Nope ... I have had to become a morning person too. 6am is a lie-in for me  ------------- Caroline, SAHM to 2 boys, S (4 years old) and J (2 years old) 
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Posted By: AuntieSarah
Date Posted: 03 November 2010 at 8:10pm
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Damn I clicked on this topic hoping someone had a magic solution!
We have one of those monkey clocks that opens its eyes at a certain time. My 21 month old couldn't care less if momo has his eyes open or closed when he wakes up, he is going to get up regardless! I'm persevering with it hoping one day he'll get it... |
Posted By: LJsmum
Date Posted: 03 November 2010 at 8:24pm
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we are all awake rather early here too! 6.20am was asleep in this morning ! rare to be asleep past 6am.
Wish there was a solution! Who ever comes up with one patent it and sell it you'll be rich!  -------------  
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Posted By: gypsynita
Date Posted: 03 November 2010 at 8:28pm
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lol auntie sarah - our toddler thinks it's okay to get up before momo as long as momo is with him... so he just brings him into our room in the morning! ------------- Anita Mum to Cian (Aug 08), Josh (Jun 10) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mollycat
Date Posted: 03 November 2010 at 8:39pm
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I will claim a partial solve. We used to eat dinner at 5, bath at 6, bottle at 6.30 and bed at 7. He would usuaally wake around 5.30/5.45. When daylight savings started I left everything at the same time but it meant we were eating at 6, bath at 7, etc etc. So he started sleeping until 6.30/7.00.
I really think that having dinner later is what did it for us. He is also not the 12 hour sleeper that alot of people seem to expect. He's more 10.5 hours at night. We do snacks around 4/5 to drag him out until dinner at 6. Not sure if that will help but pushing back dinner 'could' help. I wouldn't gradually do it. Just one day push it an hour later and see if that won't scramble up the ol' body clock. ------------- http://tickers.cafemom.com"> 
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 03 November 2010 at 8:42pm
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haha, that's classic! I'd be ok if it was just DD awake because she could play quietly in her room or snuggle in bed with us but she likes to go into DS's room and "check on him" (aka wake him up) and once he's awake there's no lazing about in bed. I'm hoping that once I'm not having to get up at 5:40am for work the kids will start sleeping longer - sometimes on the weekend I get to sleep in until.... wait for it..... 6:30am - bliss! -------------
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Posted By: millymollymandy
Date Posted: 04 November 2010 at 8:25am
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Ha ha great to know we are not alone. Mollycat - we had great success with the later meals too, and do a 4.30 ish snack and 6pm dinner. Was working til the blasted teeth incident.
am planning on getting a grow clock, with suns and stars on it when is old enough. i suspect we are raising a lark tho |
Posted By: T_Rex
Date Posted: 04 November 2010 at 11:47am
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My mum had to introduce a household rule - no getting up before 6am. We were allowed to lie in bed awake, but no turning on any lights, no opening the curtains and no talking until 6am. To begin with, if we complied in a morning, Dad would take us to the beach that afternoon. After a couple of weeks, it just became the norm. I would often wake at 10 to 6 or so, but knew I had to lie there till 6. I was a bit older when this happened, but it also worked for my little brother who was a preschooler at the time and liked to get up at 5. Probably not useful for a toddler, but I'd give it a go with a preschooler. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: SpecialK
Date Posted: 04 November 2010 at 2:31pm
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Hmmm, just started happening here too. I am blaming it on day light coming through earlier, blimmin birds starting to chirp around 5.30am, and the fact that some mornings it still is a bit chilly.
So far we have the heater set up to come on about 3am to keep the room from getting chilly and am contemplating black out curtains... have also attached a toy thing (like a little activity board) on the side of the cot, so that keeps him entertained for about 45min. Still up at around 6 though ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Shelt
Date Posted: 05 November 2010 at 10:22pm
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I thought I had this sorted when DD started sleeping till 8am after we came back from Australia (she is usually a 5.30am girl). Unfortunately this only lasted a week so must have been some jet lag, she is currently doing 6.30am so is an improvement but she's slowly pulling it back to what it used to be. Sleep-ins were nice while they lasted! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Mrs_B
Date Posted: 08 November 2010 at 1:05pm
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No solution here but thought I'd add we are early risers in this house too. DS is up anywhere from 5.30am -------------  
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Posted By: millymollymandy
Date Posted: 09 November 2010 at 12:39pm
| I have decided that it's DD's farming ancestry planning a part. |
Posted By: Helen1
Date Posted: 09 November 2010 at 9:21pm
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With DD#1 we had issues where she would wake early (5am). It got worse when she was in a big girl bed rather than a cot and could get up by herself. When she started to get up at 4:45am something had to happen.
Our solution was to have a nightlight that was on a timer to come on at 6am. When the nightlight came on she was allowed to get up. If it was before the nightlight turned on (ie. 5:30am) we would take her back to bed and tell her to stay there. It took a few goes (a week to 10 days) but she got the message and stayed in her bed until the appointed time. The nightlight was good because it wouldn't wake her if she was asleep when it came on and it also didn't have any noise to wake her either. Hope this helps. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: CarrieMum
Date Posted: 12 November 2010 at 9:52am
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We have an 18 month old early riser in our house. Lately its anytime from 5am. Its awful and Im thinking of trying some blackout blinds to see if that helps?
He's in the middle of transitioning to one nap a day too and because he wakes up so early he can't stay up til lunchtime and ends up having his one nap a day really early in the day and then being very grumpy in the late afternoon / evening. I find myself looking forward to when he's 16 and I can't get him out of bed til the afternoon! |
Posted By: CarrieMum
Date Posted: 26 November 2010 at 11:42am
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We got a blackout blind and its helped the first few days but this morning he woke at 6:15 so getting earlier again. I hope it was just a one off and tomorrow he'll be back to 7am. Its just easier with him on one nap but he can't stretch out to the middle of the day if he wakes too early. |