Baby waking at 5am!!!

[Tryingtobe123]

Hi guys

Bit of advice please! Little boy is 8 months old, always slept well, naps 2/3hrs in the day in total and goes down for bed at 7/8pm. But he keeps waking at 5am like clockwork! He’s still tired as I change his nappy, I’ve started giving him an extremely small feed (4oz) to see if it was hunger but I don’t think it is!

Just seems pointless disturbing his sleep, if I can do anything to break the habit then I’ll certainly give it a go!

Any ideas?!

I always brought my babies in bed with me if they woke after 5.

Cap naps at 2 hours

@succession total 2 hours in the day? Do I just gently wake him up? Do you think he’s getting too much sleep? I never thought this was possible with a baby haha

[quote Tryingtobe123]@succession total 2 hours in the day? Do I just gently wake him up? Do you think he’s getting too much sleep? I never thought this was possible with a baby haha[/quote]
I used to do one nap of two hours a day at that age.

12:00-14:00 and then bedtime at 18:30

@succession hmmm interesting!! I think I’ll give this a go!! Thank you

[quote Tryingtobe123]@succession hmmm interesting!! I think I’ll give this a go!! Thank you[/quote]
It's not a magic bullet. You'd need to stick at the shortened naps for at least a month before seeing results.

My son is 4 in Feb and wakes around 7am now. Bedtime is 7pm.

Two naps at 8 months old is probably what he needs so you may end up with an overtired baby.

He's probably just an early riser, lots of them are!

@NuffSaidSam

Two naps at 8 months old is probably what he needs so you may end up with an overtired baby.

He's probably just an early riser, lots of them are!

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Or try to bring your afternoon nap earlier. Mine didn't drop to one nap until about 16 months

Yeah I agree actually, I misremembered.

My son did 9:15-9:45

And then 12:30-14:00 or 14:30

Bed

Some babies are just early risers.

DS is and has always been a terrible sleeper.

At 8 months, he would go down 8pm till 11pm feed. Then 11pm till 3am feed. 3am till 6am - wake up for the day....he would also only nap for about an hour round about 1pm.

He nearly killed me 😂 he's an only child suprise suprise.

Even now at 7 years old he doesn't sleep more than about 8 hours a night, but he's like a enigizer bunny, never stops!!

You'll get used to it. 5:30 seems like a lie in now after 6 years of it.

Is it recent? Could he be cold? That sometimes causes mine to wake early. The other thing it can sometimes be is, a certain noise disturbance at the same time every day, a dog, birds etc... I've used white noise to help with that. Or, it could just be you have an early riser! I think the naps are good - at that age 2 naps for 2/3 hours collective sounds right.

5.00 isn’t unusual for babies sadly. Mine both woke at 5.00 until they got to 2 and stopped napping. I got longer in bed in the morning but no rest in the day.

I had one baby that would wake up between 4-5am every day and the other rarely awake before 7am. I didn't do anything different, just how they were wired. It gets better though, lots of complaints about me getting him up for school now!

When he wakes at 5am though he’s super tired still, yawning, rubbing his eyes. I have tried starting the day at that time and I can just tell he needs more sleep!

@Tryingtobe123

When he wakes at 5am though he’s super tired still, yawning, rubbing his eyes. I have tried starting the day at that time and I can just tell he needs more sleep!

Is something waking him up? Someone leaving for work? New neighbours so car doors opening and closing at different times as they go to work?

Is he cold? Not a reflection on you at all I am sure you wrap him up nice and warm, but he may just be feeling a temperature change now in the colder months kicking off blankets maybe?

We have a white noise machine on all night so I don’t think anyone’s waking him up. I’ve set a timer on the heating for 3:30am, so we’ll see! He was born in April to be fair on a really warm sunny weekend and then we had a hot summer so I guess he would feel it a little more!

Yup this is normal for a few months, sorry. Take turns to get up early, put TV on, chill out

We always had an early morning if ds didn't get enough sleep the day before or gone to bed too late. I think we had dropped to 2 naps at 8 months, about 3/4 hours total.

Wake windows are what important not exact timings.

@Tryingtobe123

When he wakes at 5am though he’s super tired still, yawning, rubbing his eyes. I have tried starting the day at that time and I can just tell he needs more sleep!

We used white noise, the white noise goes on at bedtime for 90 mins, and then comes on automatically at 5:30 (you would probably need to set for 4:00).

At 5:00 their sleep pressure is really low so any external noise can disturb them. I find the white noise really helps.

@Tryingtobe123

We have a white noise machine on all night so I don’t think anyone’s waking him up. I’ve set a timer on the heating for 3:30am, so we’ll see! He was born in April to be fair on a really warm sunny weekend and then we had a hot summer so I guess he would feel it a little more!

Ignore my last message!