summertime morning waking

[strangerthanfiction]

Just wondered if everyone finds their kids wake earlier during the summer months? Dd is 19 months and I remember this happening last summer and it seems to have started happening again now. She usually sleeps til around 7.15 but is now awake between 6-6.30 and is pretty knackered by mid-morning. I've done the usual blackout curtain stuff and her room is pretty dark but still she wakes. Maybe it's the bird song. Anyway I just wondered how common this is and if anyone ever has found a miracle cure!!

I have found this with my dd. I miss my lie ins, if I had any! lol. Havent found a cure yet

Absolutely....
DS2 21months usually sleeps til 6.30/ 7.00 but has woken at 5.15am for the last 2 days....

Going to sellotape the blackout curtains to the walls and put beach towels over the top of the curtain tonight

I will do ANYTHING for that extra hour and a half....

Oh, yes, I know what you mean, every extra 15 minutes counts! Maybe I should take the sellotape to dd's windows too. Do you think shutting out any extra little bits of light will make a difference?

Don't know - but I'm willing to try (and will report back!)

Nothing else has changed - the windows aren't open, so it can't be birdsong?

Birdsong pierces through even the toughest glass ... especially crows.

Does anyone leave their windows open by the way? I try not to but feel rather guilty when the days are very hot. dd's got a fan but I'm sure fresh air would be better. I just know she'd wake earlier than ever if I left them open and I'm selfishly guarding those extra morning minutes. Bad mommy. .

What do you do when she wakes? Does she get very irate? My dd1 is 3 and sometimes only sleeps 11 hours (though it doesn't really depend on seasons), but she wasn't terribly cross when she started doing this (sometime between 1 and 2 years) and we always left her so now she doesn't equate waking up with getting up - in fact she sings (almost) as tunefully as the birds when she does wake early.

No such luck here....

20 decibels: MummEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
or (hopefully) DaddEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Yep, same here Mo2, dd used to lie in her cot and 'sing' and chat and blow raspberries for sometimes up to 30 mins but for the last few months we get a very plaintive 'mammmaaaaa' which goes on and on like a robot until I go in. Occasionally I've got her to lie down with me on the fold out bed in her room with some milk and have another hour or so of sleep but that's very rare. If I try that usually she just says 'no! no! dadda, up up up' etc. and then gets irate if I try to force the issue.

So this afternoon I've taped every bit of light out of the windows that I can find. There's an odd chink here or there but I'll be interested to see if it makes a difference.

My dd has been waking earlier too. The other morning, when I walked into her room, she signed that she heard birds, so I'm assuming that it is the birds that are waking her....

Mine too does that mean its not going to get better till september? boo hoo

BB, I could loan you a cat....

lol

By the way, strangerthanfiction, I don't think I ever thanked you for the info you provided me on my sleep thread, so thank you!

Oh, you're welcome maomao. How are things going now?

Last summer I seem to remember it got a bit better as the months went on (and the room got gradually more and more blacked out!) but it wasn't until the darker mornings kicked in that she started sleeping til a more reasonable post 7am hour. This morning was a bit better for us, 6.30. But still too early for her as she doesn't go to bed til 8pm.

S-t-F
my dd is the exact same at the moment, 6.30/6.45, last weekend was great we got four days in row til 8am, but now its the birds twittering outside that she hears! i dont know.
she too goes to bed at 8pm, but is pretty wrecked by 11am. does your dd nap in day?

How old is yours Hermykne? Yes, dd does nap in the day, around midday if she can last that long when she's been up very early, for anything between 1.5-3 hours but usually 2ish hours. In total I think she's probably sleeping around 12 hours every 24 which I think is probably not enough.

So what time did your dd nap this morning? After two attempts, mine finally went down for lunch and only for an hour, and then remained horrid for the rest of the day.

This morning I gave her an early lunch at 11am and put her down for 11.45. She slept just under 2 hours and coped ok all day until the last hour or so before bed when she became a bit manic and got very upset about having her hair washed which she normally doesn't mind. But she also had a bit of a stressful time at playgroup this afternoon so I'm sure that had something to do with it too.

I have to say though that a couple of days over the weekend when I was at my moms in a room with no blackout curtains and she woke at 5.30 / 6-ish she was so exhausted that I gave her 2 naps, a morning and an afternoon one. She hasn't done that for months now.

Hey---- are you AMERICAN?

Two naps --- oh, how I long for those days!

(Sorry, I just realized that the way I asked you whether you were American sounded rude. I'm American and I got excited for a second that maybe you are as well!)

Sorry maomao I'm not American, I'm a Londoner. Where about's in the States are you?

Yes, those 2 nap days were a doddle weren't they?

Hey, when you say your dd 'signed' that she could hear the birds, what did you mean by 'signed'? Are you doing baby signing or do you have some deafness. Sorry to be nosy ... How old is your dd again?

Oh, I'm in London too. Came over about a year ago. It was your "mom" that threw me off, I guess.

Ummm... baby signing. No, she's a hearing child, but she's very willful, actually. So we thought that we would do signing with her (big in the States, y'see) in the hopes that we might avoid some tantrums in the future. It's actually worked out quite well for us --- she turned 1 last week, and so she can't really talk all that well. But the other morning, for example, she asked for a banana when she woke up, and was really adamant about having one ASAP. She would never be able to actually say the word "banana" yet. She definitely can communicate better with signs right now than via speech.