Hi...my 10 month old wakes up at 6am..sometimes, if we are lucky, 7am. that's because he sleeps early too at 7pm. how do you shift the schedule to he wakes like 7-8am perhaps??? 6am is just too early...sigh.. this is his sleeping and feeding schedule.
6am wake
7am milk + cereal
morn nap - often he skips this now. so i will give him early lunch cos he gets sleepy towards noon. so assume he doesn't take any morn nap.
11-12 lunch
afternoon nap - 11.30 - 12 noon for 1.5 hours to 2 hours.
2.30pm - milk
5pm - dinner
6.30pm - bath
7pm last feed and sleep.
night feed..still continue at 11.30pm and 5am.
i tried giving him a late afternoon nap so he can sleep later..but he just simply refuse as he is not sleepy. should i take 7pm as a nap for him and wake him up like 8pm? so..he sleeps later?? how do i shift?
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Kim11
18 yrs ago
I know how you feel. I had this problem with my first and now with the second. They both sleep in the same room now that we are in Hong Kong so often they are both up at 5:30! I have tried several things with both and have no success. I just have kids who like to get up early.
Basically the theory I was following was to not feed them breakfast until 7 so they would not wake until closer to that time. I see you are already doing this. I does sort of work for me so that if I feed her(11months) if she wakes at 4:30 then she will start to wake earlier and earlier. SO I try to stick to feeding her at 6 or 6:30 if I can push it out that long.
Often kids at 10months should be mostly sleeping through the night without night feeds. You could try to eliminate one or both night feeds to see if at least baby is getting a few hours of continuous sleep. I have tried to feed my 11month old at 5 and put her back to sleep which only works every once in a while. I wouldn't treat 7pm as a nap since I believe and have heard that this is when babies get their deepest sleep which is necessary.
I don't really have any advice but can commiserate with you. It does change since my 3 year old usually sleeps until 6:30 and would sleep longer if the baby didnt' wake him up! good luck
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hmmm. my baby used to wake up around 5.30 but now he wakes up between 6 and 7 and i'm pretty happy with that. occasionally he'll sleep till 7.30 but not very often. i'm afraid i've read many many times that there's not much you can do to help baby sleep in later. even putting them to bed later doesn't work. last night, bubs went to bed at 9.30 and still woke up at 6.15 this morning! i don't give my baby a dream feed either and have often wondered whether that would help him sleep longer but i don't think he's waking up THAT early for me to have to go back to dream feeding.
that is interesting your bubs is not doing his morning nap anymore. i think mine is about to drop it too. (he's also 10 months old). if he does his morning nap late then his afternoon nap will be late too which pushes his bedtime to later too! i'm worried for the grumpiness when we drop the morning nap. ;)
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#1 always woke up between 0600 and 0630 at that age. #2 is almost a year old now and does the same. However as kids get older their sleeping patterns become more "adult". #1 (now 2½) regularly sleeps until 0700-0730 (still asleep as of this writing while #2 is awake).
So it may just be a matter of roughing it out until baby gets older. Sorry. ;)
Other things you can try:
- Shorten the naps a bit. Use caution as this may just make baby very tired and cranky.
- Move bedtime the night feed later. Then again, #2 is perfectly happy not eating until 0800. She just wants to get up and play! :)
BTW as mentioned above you should work on the night feed(s). One at most, and very late in the sleep cycle. #2 is now at the stage where she sometimes needs 0500 feed and sometimes she sleeps through. This will also increase your sleep.
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crj
18 yrs ago
We used to get ours at 6:30, but they would wake at 6:00 and just chat to themselves (now each other)...
We recently moved this to 7:00 but it took a few weeks of gradually moving the bedtime a bit later and the morning a bit later.
At 10 months we did not have any night feeds, I agree with the above, unless your baby has weight issues and needs the extra feeds according to the dr, your baby should be getting all their nutrition in the daytime. Sleep is incredibly important for your baby and their development. Also not getting those solid 12 hour nights could be part of the reason baby is waking early.
Also, we basically taught them we wouldn't go in until 7.... and it is the exact same time every day... so they are confident we will show up... they just need to wait... I think we might have had some crying in the very early days, but not for long and never now. But it is funny, the clock hits 7 and if I am one minute late 'mummy, come get me' hahaha they know....
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mine is 13 months and is refusing to sleep more 10.30 hours or11 hours at night. He hasnt had any nighfeeds since he was about 8-9 months old.
he's an early riser too. but hubby and mother-in-law tell me that they've been like that all their life. up at 6am, so chances of baby waking up later and me having a sleep in look very slim :(((((((( Unlucky me!
at 13 months he's decided that the world is more fascinating by the day, so he's up, brighteyed and raring to go.
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Make sure there are blackout curtains and that it is quiet in the house/apt around him or her. Sometimes neighbours getting up can wake your baby if the walls are thin. One mum I knew put a 'white noise' machine in baby's room which masked other noises and baby slept better.
Wait until your baby is a teen and sleeps til 11am on weekends!
;-)
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yup my baby has black out curtains and a white noise machine in his room. i am absolutely convinced that the white noise machine helps him sleep better. when we were travelling and slept in the same room as bubs, we got to experience the white noise machine and me and hubby were like ahhhhhhh...... how nice is this!!!
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Ruth: only another 12 yrs to go? *GROAN*
so guys share the secret where did you get hold of the white noise CD?
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hate to sound dumb but what is a white noise machine? i mean i understand white noise but didn't know there's like a machine for it!
blackout curtains helped us when our kid started waking up earlier and earlier when he was close to 1 year. i read that most kids come into light sleep at 5/6am (just like me) and it's the darkness of the room that supposedly helps them to sleep a little longer....
ruth, gosh how great it must feel to have a lie in until 11am..........
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crj
18 yrs ago
In BJ, our air filter produces enough noise, and in HK our AC did to qualify as 'white noise'... I think it helps a bit, but then I am not really sure as they sleep through so much random noise and sounds sometimes I think it bothers us more than them...
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my sister just uses a clock radio and tunes it to in-between stations so you just hear the static. we actually bought one from a store called brookstone in the states. it's a travel sound machine and has different sounds like waves at the beach and thunderstorms etc. it is quite ridiculous but it's actually very soothing! in summer, the rattling of our dehumidifiers does the trick. :)
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Hi...thanks for all of your inputs! bub has his mind of his own and suddenly, these few days, he slept later around 8pm - 8.30pm. SADLY, he still wakes up at 6am to 6-yish! this morning he is up 5.45am even though he slept at 8.30pm!! HAHAHA. So..you are all correct. There is really nothing I can do. I will live with it! I do switch on music all night long but it hasn't help.
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Kim11
18 yrs ago
It will change all the time. My one year old has now decided to sleep until after 6 but my three year old in the same room has decided to get up at 5:45. I think they discuss it and decide who will wake up early that week and who gets to sleep in! Yes, like Godess Kali said wait until they are sleeping until noon and you can't get them out of bed.
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