14 mo old waking at 5am every single day

[Anonymous]

HELP.

I need more sleep. DH needs more sleep. 4 yr old needs more sleep. We are all going to bed earlier. 4 yr old by 1/2 hour; DH and I go to bed at 9, sleep at 9:30!

Baby also not taking PM nap. Now, she just figured out how to walk...do you think she'll go back to normal now or should I let her CIO at 5am?

I tried bottle-ing her back to sleep and that worked for awhile but it no longer does.

ideas?

[Anonymous]

CIO. Possibly do one check to see if she needs a diaper, otherwise ignore. She will live.

[Anonymous]

CIO won't work at 5 am. Your child has already gone to sleep and slept the whole night. Unfortunately at 5 am, they have decided that they aren't tired anymore and are done sleeping.

Both of my kids did this, they outgrew it around 2 1/2 or so, now they sleep in until 6 am!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CIO won't work at 5 am. Your child has already gone to sleep and slept the whole night. Unfortunately at 5 am, they have decided that they aren't tired anymore and are done sleeping.

Both of my kids did this, they outgrew it around 2 1/2 or so, now they sleep in until 6 am!

Right but you can still leave her in the crib, even if she's crying. She'll learn to stop.

[Anonymous]

This happened with my first at the exact same age. Which also coincidentally was right around the time I found out I was pregnant with #2. Yay us. We started preparing a small sippy cup of milk the night before and just brought him and the milk into our room when he woke up. That would get him back to sleep in our bed for an hour or two. Yes, sets up two not so great habits, but we did what we needed to get sleep.

[Anonymous]

Ugh. I am praying we are exiting this stage. We too bribe with milk at 4:30 or 5 am but she has decided she's up. The pediatrician told us it's normal and some kids are early risers. We're trying to push bedtime and naps later to affect morning.

[Anonymous]

If you're going to bed at 9:30 and waking up at 5, then you're getting a decent amount of sleep, no?

It's one of those things--you have a few choices:

1). Suck it up and drink more coffee until she adjusts her schedule on her own.

2). Let her CIO (with or without checks--I prefer checks)

3). Get a Okay to Wake clock and hope she learns her colors soon.

4). Bring her to bed with you and hope she goes back to sleep.

Do what you can, but keep going to sleep early is the best you can do right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. I am praying we are exiting this stage. We too bribe with milk at 4:30 or 5 am but she has decided she's up. The pediatrician told us it's normal and some kids are early risers. We're trying to push bedtime and naps later to affect morning.

We had the same thing with my son. CIO definitely didn't work, nor did giving food, books, etc. What did work (finally) was cutting the morning nap and pushing bedtime back from 7:30 to between 8-8:30. We used the Ferber guidelines for how much sleep kids need at particular ages and it seemed accurate for us... Good luck! I remember how miserable some of those days were...

[Anonymous]

If you put her back in her crib, how long will she cry? Will she settle back down and sleep anymore, or no? Have you tried giving her a book or toy in her crib? We have 19 month old twins and although they've been sleeping in later recently, sometimes one of them wakes up at 5 or 6. I'll give her milk and then see if she'll sleep some more or this morning, I gave them some toys and they played for a bit.

[Anonymous]

Make sure she is dressed warmly enough. My kids woke when they were cold. Footed heavier pajamas kept them asleep longer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HELP.

I need more sleep. DH needs more sleep. 4 yr old needs more sleep. We are all going to bed earlier. 4 yr old by 1/2 hour; DH and I go to bed at 9, sleep at 9:30!

Baby also not taking PM nap. Now, she just figured out how to walk...do you think she'll go back to normal now or should I let her CIO at 5am?

I tried bottle-ing her back to sleep and that worked for awhile but it no longer does.

ideas?

Same story here except DH and I go to bed closer to midnight.

Seems to be a bit better this past week. Darkness?

[Anonymous]

Ours did it too. We let her sleep in our bed at that hour and sometimes she'd fall back to sleep (if not, at least I got to lay down for a few more minutes). At about 18 months we got a tot clock and that push wakeups back. All is not lost!

[Anonymous]

How did a tot clock work at 18 mos? My 18-month old is hysterical to get out of bed around 5am, did they pay attention to the clock?

[Anonymous]

If she's not taking an afternoon nap, she is probably ready to transition to one nap - the associated sleep consolidation might help with the early wake-up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How did a tot clock work at 18 mos? My 18-month old is hysterical to get out of bed around 5am, did they pay attention to the clock?

I am wondering this too...the tot clock at 18 months??