waking baby in the morning

[Piccalilli]

I've posted before about problems getting my 14 wk old to sleep at all in the evenings and a number of people have suggested getting her up earlier in the morning (she usually sleeps til 8:30 once she eventually goes down). I'm willing to give this a try now that she's usually down by 11 rather than 3 a.m. but I'm unsure how best to go about it. We already set the alarm for 7, turn on the lights and hope the noise of us getting up will wake her but she's really resistant. Do I literally just get her out of her gro-bag and pick her up, or what??

Unzip grobag, take her legs out of sleepsuit, the cooler temperature should wake her up

I usually have to wake my dd (nearly 16 months) up in the mornings. We just start to be a bit loud, turn the shower on and leave the door open put the radio on etc.

If she isn't stirring, I go in put on her light, open up her blackout blind and then start to undo her grobag - will usually wake up - otherwise start poking and say 'Oi' (in a nice way obviously)

cant you work on getting her to bed earlier instead. I know you have problems, but you have managed to move it 4 hours already. Does she wake at a different time now? Probably not, so now try to get it to 10, might be alot of tears, but will happen. I think they have a natural waking time regardless of bed time

cant you work on getting her to bed earlier instead. I know you have problems, but you have managed to move it 4 hours already. Does she wake at a different time now? Probably not, so now try to get it to 10, might be alot of tears, but will happen. I think they have a natural waking time regardless of bed time

cant you work on getting her to bed earlier instead. I know you have problems, but you have managed to move it 4 hours already. Does she wake at a different time now? Probably not, so now try to get it to 10, might be alot of tears, but will happen. I think they have a natural waking time regardless of bed time

Piccalilli - my DD was in a lovely routine at about eight weeks, then it all went a bit wrong and she was sleeping from midnight to anything between half eight and ten.
I started to bring her sleep time earlier by putting her in the bath at seven, then putting her in her grobag and feeding her around half seven. The first couple of nights she'd wake up every so often for more food, but its now two weeks on and I can have her in her crib by 8:00. (I imagine it will all go wrong now!!). We bath her for fifteen mins at seven (it helps that she loves the bath), get her ready by about twentypast and start feeding no later than half past seven. We keep the telly volume low, the lights off and I feed her lying down on the bed. When she falls asleep, I leave her for about ten minutes before putting her in her crib.
I did think that this would lead to her being awake really early (I imagined going to sleep four hours earlier would result in waking four hours earlier too), but she tends to sleep until between seven / eight thirty.
I didn't get her up any earlier in the morning before starting the sleep routine, and I still let her wake by herself rather than waking her up.
I'm due to go back to work at the end of March, so at the beginning of March I'll work on waking her up earlier so I can have her ready for nursery. I have woken her once before when we've had to go out early, and I just undo her grobag and she'll wake up, and I'll start talking to her. I can get her ready but she tends to be really sleepy and will fall asleep for a nap a lot earlier than she does usually.

I walk in their room, flick on the light, and announce "Good morning, time to get up" Kids are almost 3 yrs and 8 months. I do this at 6:00.

And, my kids are fantastic sleepers. I don't reaally know why, but I've always thought that going to bed and waking up at the same time every day probably helps.

Or it could just be gentics, as I personally could sleep through the front line of WW III.

sorry about my triple post..the pc was playing up!!!