Baby not sleeping enough at night!

[Anonymous]

My 9 month old is waking up between 6 and 7 every morning. This morning it was 550. She is waking up happy and we try to delay feeding her/getting her until 7 but I cannot fall back to sleep once I hear her at 6am. Sometimes we can rock her back to sleep. I tried pushing her bedtime to 8. No difference. I am trying to push it back up to 745 but we don't get off from work until 530 and it is hardly enough time with her. I am dreading daylight savings. We started filling the crib with pacifiers but they are all on the floor by AM. Also added in a lunch so she shouldn't be hungry but she might be? Sound machine, blackout room. Any tips to get her to sleep later?

[Anonymous]

Some kids just have an internal clock that makes them early risers and there's very little you can do to change that.

I would have killed for a wake-up between 6 and 7 at that age! Mine was more like a 5 am riser. Even now, at 3 years old, he's up right around 6, no matter what. (if he does sleep in, that's a surefire sign he's going to spike a fever in the next 48 hours)

To combat the 5 am wake ups, we did move back, little by little, when we would have the first morning feed (and later, breakfast), eventually landing on 6 am. My kid is one who wants to eat the second he wakes, so he had little interest in hanging out for an hour. I think we moved back 5 minutes a week--so, yes, it took what felt like forever to get to 6 am, but it worked.

[Anonymous]

Push the bedtime to 7:30 or earlier. Yes it sucks since you get home later. Its a phase and will pass. I have a 1 year old and her bedtime is 6:30. Shes asleep by 7 and wakes at 6-6:30. Older kid was the same.

[Anonymous]

My kids ages 2 4 6 all wake up at 5am. Be grateful it's not earlier

[Anonymous]

Normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Push the bedtime to 7:30 or earlier. Yes it sucks since you get home later. Its a phase and will pass. I have a 1 year old and her bedtime is 6:30. Shes asleep by 7 and wakes at 6-6:30. Older kid was the same.

how long? it's been 2 months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids ages 2 4 6 all wake up at 5am. Be grateful it's not earlier

it's going to be 4am in a few weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids ages 2 4 6 all wake up at 5am. Be grateful it's not earlier

it's going to be 4am in a few weeks.

Yeah. I know. We go thru this every year. I let them watch videos

[Anonymous]

At 9 months we went to two naps and my kid went to bed by 8pm and woke up around 7am. I think a wake up between 6-7am is normal to be honest. Some work days I only saw my kid for an hour in the evening. It’s more important she got good sleep though so regardless of whether it’s a work day or not bedtime is always the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At 9 months we went to two naps and my kid went to bed by 8pm and woke up around 7am. I think a wake up between 6-7am is normal to be honest. Some work days I only saw my kid for an hour in the evening. It’s more important she got good sleep though so regardless of whether it’s a work day or not bedtime is always the same.

OP here- we are at two naps. She naps great.

[jsmith123]

Sounds like she's getting enough sleep, just not in the hours that you prefer.

Sorry, OP, I sympathize. My first was a very early waker. It's hard.

[Anonymous]

OP here- something happened last night. I put her down earlier than usual, at 745 but she cried until 810. But she also ate a TON of food at dinner. Like my 4 years entire plate. I also upped her lunch by a bit. My husband thinks it's b/c she had Mac and cheese (carbs). But she slept until 740. She even slept through the garbage trucks. It's so weird....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here- something happened last night. I put her down earlier than usual, at 745 but she cried until 810. But she also ate a TON of food at dinner. Like my 4 years entire plate. I also upped her lunch by a bit. My husband thinks it's b/c she had Mac and cheese (carbs). But she slept until 740. She even slept through the garbage trucks. It's so weird....

Hmmmm. Good idea. I’m going to try Mac and cheese for my 14 month old (25th percentile weight). She only sleeps through the night (7pm to 6am) about 5 days each week. When she doesn’t sleep through, she wakes up at 4am to BF.

[Anonymous]

Give her Greek yogurt before bed. Lots of fat and protein that will tank her up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids ages 2 4 6 all wake up at 5am. Be grateful it's not earlier

it's going to be 4am in a few weeks.

Yes, this is what happens when you put them to bed at 7.