early morning wakers?

[strangerthanfiction]

HI, just wondered how other mums with early morning wakers are getting on. We had a nice thread about it a while ago which I found very helpful and am missing as dd's going through another early waking phase. After giving us a couple of months of 7-7.30 wakings she's now reverted to 6am. I know that's not as bad as some but it's bad enough for me.

mine get up between 5 and 6!!!

But how do you cope? When do you go to bed yourself?

Ds gets up between 6 - 7. If I have to get up with him (not a lot as dh does the mornings with ds before he goes to work) I sleep during ds nap times and also go to bed about 10.30pm.

DD was up at 6am this morning and I find it really hard to deal with when it is so early. She normally wakes betweem 7-7:30am. Why is her early starts always on mornings when I have been out and drunk the night before?

Same thing with DS. Until it started to get really light, he woke up about 7:30, then it started to be about 5. I just threw some toys in his crib and told him I wasn't getting up that early. (Like he would understand) Now he sleeps till about 6, and like joanneg, DH gets him, because he likes to be up at 6, and will take care of him until he gets ready for work at 7.

I wish my dp get up sometimes but alas it's always me. I do usually try to get some sleep during dd's nap if she's been up early. I feel like for the last week or so of her waking earlier I'm a total zombie.

Hulababy I know exactly what you mean. We can always guarantee that dd will wake extra early when we've been to bed extra late. And she takes her occasional lie-ins on the mornings we'd quite like to get going early!

hi STF
my dd has started sleeping til 7.15/ 7.30 but wakes at 5.50 religiously, i give her a tiny amount of milk and tell her back to sleepies, and generally she nods off as she is still half asleeep.
a few morns shes ready to go at 6.30 but they are rare.
bed time has moved up to 8.30 if not slightly before. and shes out like a light.
so til 7 thats 11 hrs, i suppose i cant ask for any more.
i found by pushing her tea to 6 then it isnt long to bath and bed time even though bedtime that wee bit later.
baby no2 due any day so i dont know how'll i manage, up at 6to dd no1 and then who knows what time for no2..oh dear....!!!

Both mine get up early. Ds1 (4yrs) between 6 and 7 and ds2 (20 weeks wakes at around 5.30a.m. I tend to both during the night if ds1 has a terror or ds2 is just a fidegety sleeper. I get up when they do and get dh to get up at the weekends with me so that we can tend to one child each. But during the week it is me, I just get through the day tiredness always hits me around 2.30p.m but by 3p.m. I have a second wind and am fine but tend to collapse and go to bed when they are in bed by 7 and 8p.m. That is the only way I can catch up on sleep. I won't stay up late and dh understands this and knows that I will once ds2 is a little older.

we are in real trouble. ds is 9 months and used to happily do til 7am. this morning 5.45am...and wouldn't go back to sleep.

taking it's toll on us (dh and i are arguing at the moment anyway). thing is that ds is knackered...

he sleeps 45 mins at 9am, and then anything between 1 1/4 to 2 hours in the afternoon and still manages 11 hours at night usually. i can't put 7pm bedtime back as he is too tired and then cries inconsolably as he can't get to sleep. ditto trying to remove/move the naps. until i can get him to sleep later, it is hard enough getting him to 9am without sleeping.

i know i should probably just get on with it, but has anyone got any suggestions at all as i fear divorce may loom if this carries on much longer (i know i should put a wink icon in, but my sense of humour has left the building completely today). help!

Hi Hermykne, how much does your dd sleep in the day? Actually if my dd wakes before 6am I can usually also settle her down again but if it's after 6 she's wide awake and even though I've tried to settle her it never works. She was doing straight through til gone 7 until a week or so ago. No idea where it went wrong. My dd sleeps 1-2 hours about 12pm-ish.

sophable, I really feel for you, being over-tired is one of the hardest things about parenthood. Has your ds been waking early for long? I guess you've done all the usual things like blackout curtains? And he's not ill or teething? I wish I could offer more than sympathy but my dd is the same, knackered all morning when she gets up too early. It's infuriating. All I can suggest is that you try to catch up on some sleep when he sleeps or get to bed early. I never manage the latter but I do try to close my eyes for 20 mins or so during dd's afternoon nap.

My husband is an early riser, I love to sleep! Both our boys are in bed by 8pm at the latest - 7pm at the earliest. 3yr old doesn't sleep during the day now, but can be a nightmare early evening. 1 1/2 yr old has 2 hours sleep mid-morning / mid-day. They normaly sleep straight through until 6am. 5am is the earliest, 7pm is the latest. I normaly get myself to bed by 21:30 so I can get my 8 hours in otherwise I'm a bear with a sore head. It has improved as they were awake about 4:30 in the winter!

Well, for all those people who suggest a later bedtime will help with early waking, last night dd went to bed at 10 pm (usually it's 7.30-8.00) as we took her to a kiddies theater thing in the park, and she still woke at 7am! I guess it's better than 6am but she's utterly exhausted this morning. Won't be doing that again in a hurry!