4am every morning

[Sillymummies123]

Hi all,

As in title ^. 10 months old, has slept through the night with for a few months prior to the last fortnight (before that, she had one wake for feed and that's it).

For the last fortnight she has begun her tired cry between 4-430am and has been wide awake and chatting thereafter. Understandably, were dying inside. Our other child is almost 3, so we feel any form of ferbering is, for now, unlikely to make things better. We've tried nappy and milk, just milk, ignoring, rocking, but by 5am she is just loudly shouting and standing up. 10 months into our second child we're sudddnly feeling more sleep deprived than we ever have before.

Every resource online says "don't try to keep them up later", but we're sort of at our wits end and that's seeming the obvious option right now (with a few rough days while she transitions).

Please tell me whether the later bedtime is insane or obvious to you also.

Thanks

Ok thank you. The advice to have a longer nap, whilst potentially a resolution to the problem, does rely on her agreeing to it, which is unlikely in my experience 😅

I would make sure it is dark in there and then try to ride it out.

With dd I used to go in, say 'it's still nighttime baby, you need to go back to sleep', tuck her back in, and go away. Just like I would at 1am.

She got it eventually.

I’d try one nap around lunch time, max 1.5 hours.

@Sillymummies123 That normally means the gap between the morning and lunchtime nap is too short, the nap conditions are not right (too bright or noisy or cold or whatever), or there is an unsustainable sleep association eg feeding or rocking to sleep

This would exacerbate the problem

This thread is wonderfully indicative of the problem with seeking parenting advice on literally any issue, in that you always relieve polar advice.😂

@Sillymummies123 youngest DS was an absolute pain to get to sleep until we moved and he had to share with his older brother while we renovated the place. Literally the first night we put him in bed and he rolled over went straight to sleep. 🙄

So my only advice would be to move a run down fixer upper.

Well we just had some ricotta cake (a dash of marsala within) so if all else fails - sedative cake for the win 😉

Follow-up for any future readers of this thread. Naps were kept the same as always but we put her to bed at 730pm and she's only just woken up so that worked.

So she went from 2:30pm to 7:30pm awake? How many days/weeks have you been using the new routine?

D’oh just seen posting date of your earlier post lol

My ds was always an early riser. Later joust didn't change this.

He's now 17 and gets up at 4am 4 times a week and 5am once a week for swim training.

Maybe take her to the pool and see if she's a potential swimmer (it may also tire her)