Can you get a 5am waker to wake at 6am? (15 months)

[Elf]

Hi, DD2 who is 15 months old goes to bed at 6.45pm and often wakes at 5ish. AFter a breastfeed in her darkened room she occasionally goes back to sleep if it is say 4.45 when she woke, rather than 5.15 say. Sometimes she won't.

I don't like to let her cry because after 5am the other two may well wake up and that would be awful!

I just wondered if it was worth trying to get dh to take dd1 and ds to his parents for a couple of nights to see if dd2 could be persuaded to sleep through until 6ish. 5.50 is so much more bearable than 4.50am and of course she could do with the extra sleep.

I've tried lots of things but she's just stuck in this pattern at the moment and I'm sure she's not teething at the moment.

Has anyone had success with this sort of thing before? ie if I don't get her up until 6am. I may just wait until the clocks change and then put her to bed later.

Does she sleep well in her buggy? We took to moving DS2 from his cot to his buggy when he woke intolerably early (where he did his daytime napping) in order to move him away from his brother and leave him to complain. He never cried for more than a few minutes then slept for a good hour or so longer. He was a bit younger than your DD when we did it - more like 12 months - but I think it did help to break the pattern.

Allbuggiedout, I don't know if that would work for us but it is an interesting idea, worth pondering upon and thanks for answering.

Elf, I've no idea, but I have plenty of sympathy.

DS1 (2.1) has been eaking at this time ever since he went into a bed. We get a little face at the end of our bed piping up "Beebies" or "Milk" at any time between 4.30 and 5 most mornings. Tis no joke.

We, like you have tried everything.

I now just grin and bear it and make the most of me extra couple of hours in the morning.

I wouldn't say no to a bity longer in bed though, so if anyone has any answers, I'll be intrigued

Elf, DS is now 14 months old and we were waking at 4:50 many mornings as well. After 2 weeks of putting him to bed later (used to be 6:30-6:45, now 7:15), we are starting to see a trend of him waking up later by 30 minutes. The trouble with changing some babies schedules is that it takes alot of patience because you have to "retrain" their biological clock. For a while, he was going to bed late and waking just as early as always and you can imagine how frustrating it was because he was so cranky until he took his morning nap. I was tempted on many many occasions to "throw in the towel" but I had support of DH. Now we aren't waking until 5:30 or 5:45, which we can live with until the clocks change. This being said, I think there is only so much you can change. Some kids are just early risers and I think we will definitely have some "relapses" and very early mornings and we will never hold our breath for a 6:30 or 7am wake-up -- at least not until the clocks change. OH - as for the leave in bed - we did that before resorting to a later bedtime and it didn't work. I think once they're up, they're up. What we did do was to not feed him until 6am - no matter what. This is so that he is not waking up because he's used to being fed at an early hour. You may have trouble with the bedtime shift, unless you shift that morning feed as well, since DD may wake for hunger or from a feeding habit. I hope that sharing my very similar experience will be helpful to you. Good luck.

great idea to get everyone out of the hosue so you could concentrate on your early riser. That may be the only way you could do it!

DD2 is 22 mths and has been waking at about 5am for months now (sometimes as early as 4am) . The only solution we have found is to bring her into bed with us, give her a breastfeed and she will then (usually) fall asleep again (although she will sometimes wriggle around for about 1/2 hr). We can then usually get back to sleep until our "norma" waking time of 7.30am, and even later at the weekends.

Not an ideal situation, but better than being up for the day at 5am, or even 6am!

If it is any consolation, my ds was an early waker (sometimes as early as 4.30am and never later than 5.30am) He is 3 now and since if has stopped having a daytime nap he sleeps in until atleast 6.30am and sometimes up to 8am. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Oh well thank you everyone, I thought at first that not many people were going to answer and that everyone thought I was being a jerk!!

It does help to know there are other poor people around the country being woken too! I do have hope because ds was a very earlywaker too and like Freudianslip's lo he is now usually fine ie 6-7am.

Looks like other people are holding out for the clocks in March as well, I may well just wait for that I think. Thank you everyone, my cup runneth over.

Oh well thank you everyone, I thought at first that not many people were going to answer and that everyone thought I was being a jerk!!

It does help to know there are other poor people around the country being woken too! I do have hope because ds was a very earlywaker too and like Freudianslip's lo he is now usually fine ie 6-7am.

Looks like other people are holding out for the clocks in March as well, I may well just wait for that I think. Thank you everyone, my cup runneth over.