Hello!
I have a 5 month old who is currently waking up at 3.30-4.30am and is wide awake, happy and ready to play. She stays in her cot for up to an hour playing and talking to her bear but by 7 she’s exhausted and so am I.
We’ve struggled with the naps but she usually gets around 3/4 naps a day that total 3.5 hours, one in a sling and the rest in her cot (we’ve had to do a lot of work to get her there!).
She is usually in bed asleep between 7/7.30 and on a good night wakes up once for a feed but I’m not really sure she’s hungry. The fact she’s so happy when she wakes and doesn’t have a feed until half 6ish makes me think this isn’t a hunger issue.
Anyway I’m torn between thinking she needs an earlier or a later bedtime. I’m loathed to try an earlier bedtime in case it ends her night even earlier but the things I’ve read about sleep suggests this is what she needs but it seems very early.
I think she’s probably totalling 12 hours of sleep over 24 hours which I don’t think is enough but I don’t know whether to let her nap later and put her down later for her night sleep of just bring the bedtime forward.
I’d love to hear if anyone else has managed to shift an early waker to a time that is slightly less antisocial!
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Olivebranch5 · 03/06/2020 08:24
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