baby wakes to early

[teatank]

has anyone got a problem with there baby waking too early. my 10month old son has started waking at 5.30. he goes to bed at 7 and wakes at 5.30 screaming. he sleeps for about 40 minutes of a day time.

Hi Teatank, your post made me . YES YES YES

But it DOES stop. All you can do is make sure there is no daylight coming into the room (stick up a piece of blackout fabric with sticky-backed velcro) and hope for the best.

Is he hungry and wanting milk/food as soon as he's up?

40 minutes in the day doesn't seem like much, but if he's coping well then I think all you can do is ride it out. A cold or growth spurt will change things probably.

Sorry not to have anything more helpful to say, but it does pass.

Now repeat after me the Toddler Mantra:

"and this too shall pass,
and this too shall pass...."

My DS has only ever slept for 10-11 hrs at the most during the night so I put him to bed at 8, and he wakes some time after 6am. This however is pure luxury compared to the 3 and 4am wakings previously. Could you try upping his daytime naps and putting him to bed a little later maybe?

hi supercherry thanks for your advice. i will try it out. am fed up hearing from other mums by where i live bragging there babies sleep till 10am. they must be in denial.

I posted this same problem a few months ago - whatever I did DS woke up at 5.30am. I had got to the stage where I never thought he was going to grow out of it and it was affecting my whole day.

Then I took him to the doctors as he had sort of raspy breathing and he was given antibiotics and the first day he had them he slept till 7am and has done so ever since (he's nearly 13mths now).

I don't know if it was a huge coincidence or whether he was waking up because he finding it difficult to breathe but if by any chance your DS has anything similar it might be worth getting him checked.

Their babies sleep till 10am!

You could try resetting their body clock, when you go to bed rouse them a bit (reposition them in bed and tucking them back in is usually enough) and this is can help rest so they start waking at a diff time.

Or my ds I used to go in and just say its too early go back to sleep and lay him back down it took about a week or so but he stopped waking at 5am and has since slept till 7am.

(Im presuming youve tried all the dark room, enough food before bed etc)

How old was your DS when telling him to go back to sleep actually worked? My DS 13mths wouldn't understand this.

Not trying to pick at your post I promise but also, if I roused my DS while he was sleeping he would probably wake up and start crying.

Then again, my DS doesn't do self-settling and I take it yours does. More

ds has been waking at redicolous times for a few weeks, im just clinging on to the realisation i had at 5.30am today, it maybe 5.30 this week but that will be 6.30 next week as the clocks change

DD (12 months) is waking at 5.30am/5.45am every morning too, no matter HOW late she goes to bed (normally 7-7.30pm, but still makes no difference if at 8-8.30pm).
And I don't even feed her till 7am! No advice, I'm afraid, although with the clocks changing soon, it may soon start to feel more acceptable - as in 5.30 will become 6.30 iyswim.

I think it's the birds' dawn chorus that wakes her up. We have double glazing, but their warbling is stronger.

Does your ds settle in your bed once he's woken up, or is that it for the day? (dd hates being in my bed and has to start playing instead).

What's with this clock changing advice? Surely it would make a difference for the first morning as that's the only night that is a different length and then be back to normal waking times????

Supercherry fair enough if your but i would just like to point out that most of us who have children who sleep well didnt happen to just fall lucky we had to work hard to get our children to sleep for the times they do. That meant trying different techniques instead of sitting there moaning about how my child wouldn't do this and that when you havn't even tried. There are sleep training books on the market maybe its worth getting one and having an open mind?

'most of us who have children who sleep well didnt happen to just fall lucky we had to work hard to get our children to sleep for the times they do.'

How do you know that Denny? You're making sweeping generalisations about a huge group of people- how could you possibly know how all these parents managed to have children that sleep well?

Who's 'sitting there and moaning'? I'm not. My DS sleeps 10-11hrs- that is pure heaven like I said. Why would I want a sleep training book?

Do you know what actually means? Because you seem to have taken offence at it in my post but it's not offensive.

How do you know what I have or haven't tried? You are making alot of blind assumptions Denny. But, for what it's worth, I have never done any sleep training, I have been a go with the flow type of mum and DS's sleep has improved gradually as he has got older.

I was only questioning your advice, as I am entitled to do, not disputing it. I just thought it looked aimed at an older child perhaps- but I didn't assume this- I asked! The op's DS is only 10mths.

Apologies teatank for the detour

How did your DS sleep last night?

yes, there are some children who just need less sleep than others. my ds (almost 4yo)is one of them. later bedtimes helps (i think 7pm is probably too early for your ds teatank) but past 8.30pm doesn't make any difference, you'll have to experiment.

i even have a controlled experiment going on in that i live next door to a similar aged boy - the difference in their waking and sleeping times is astonishing although they are doing the the same daily activity. i can see the curtains to his room still shut at 9am at weekends, whereas ds has been up since 6am.

I've had this with both of mine.
Dd (nearly 1) woke up at 4.40 this morning, although its usually between 5 and 6.
Ds (2.6) woke up at 6.30. He went through the 5-6am wake up stage for a while as well, we tried everything to get him to sleep longer but in the end he just did it himself and now wakes 6.30-7.30.
If you search early waking in the archives you'll find loads of posts with different ideas of how to help, you never know something might work for you!
Oh and they can both settle themselves back to sleep so I don't think that is the problem, some kids are just early risers.