I am so F***ing fed-up with getting up at 4.15am

[artichokes]

DD is 15 months and has always been an early waker. She used to be a good sleeper other than the fact she rose at 5.30ish.

For the last week she has been getting up at 4.15 . Nothing will entice her back to sleep and if we leave her in the cot she screams blue murder. She has also started waking around midnight (unless given Medised before bed - Calpol does nothing) and refusing to go back to sleep unless bought into our bed.

The night waking would be bad enough but it adds insult to injury if I have co-slept since midnight (meaning I will have slept terribly since midnight) and STILL get woken at 4.15.

DD woke at 5.30 today and stayed in her cot for half a hour after dh gave her fav bear ... we had a sleep in til 6AM ...Hooray !!. She went to bed at 8pm ,& I tried 12 hr super strength nappies . Will try this again tonight .fingers cross ,it was not a one off !

How fantastic UpAllNight. Congrats. I bet you feel a million dollars.

DD work at 4.03am and has been awake ever since . That is the earliest yet (by 12 mins!. There is nothing we can do to get her back down. It is so depressing and feels like it might be never ending.

with these sorts of clockwork waking (ie same time each morning) you can try something called wake to sleep - you wake them one hour before their usual wake up and then leave them to re-settle. This disrupts their old sleep cycle so they sleep through their usual wake up time

I did it with DS when he had a phase of waking at 5.00 am

it was hideous getting up at 4.00 am to wake him, but in a funny way it was better than knowing he was going to wake anyway

you do wake to sleep for 3 nights and then you leave them on the fourth. If they wake at their old time, then you do WTS for 6 more nights

it worked for us and perhaps it is worth a try?

To wake them initially you untuck them, stroke their face etc so they are nearly fully awake and then leave them to re-settle

I know the feeling ...430am is a such depressing hour . I will see if later bed time works again tonight. Usually she likes to be up early (??) at weekends !!

Rubyslippers - how old was your ds when you did this ? My dd wakes at anytime between 3 and 5 but usaully about 4isH .For quite a while we were able to resettle her with her bear but the last couple of weeks she has decided it is time to get up.

he was just over a year old ...

You can do it with older children as well

it really is good for clockwork wakings

4.40am today. Despite only having one 40min nap yesterday. She is toptalling about 10hrs sleep in 24. That cannot be good for a 15 monther. She was having 13 6 weeks ago.

Ruby - how clockwork do the wakings need to be for your method to work. DD wakes between 4 and 5.30. Is that too much variation? I am also worried that if I woke her at 3 she would never go back to sleep! She is a bugger to get back in her cot if she wakes in the night .

ffs.

I am back!

DS went down at 7:30 and it's been a struggle since then. I think it's the teeth, he just cut two on the top and now the other two are cutting. That's what I get for not giving him nurofen before we went to sleep!

Erm, so...anybody out there? I hope not!