Hi...this forum has been great for me, and hoping it helps more. I have a 3.5 month old who is doing great, but a bit of trouble sleeping well for naps and the main question is his morning wake time. He wakes predictably at 5.30h every day! Even if he needs to feed or not, then usually squirms and poops yet is tired. I feel like he would sleep longer if he could. I then put him back around 7.30h and he sometimes does ok or not. I just wonder if it is a phase and will change or I need to proactively try to rock him back to sleep? yet it is hard with the stomach / pooping. Any experience with this?
I think it might be when you put him down to bed. Babies don't sleep 14-15 hours in a row, they'd starve to death.
If he's going down by 8:30pm then he's starving at 5:30am and I'm surprised he's not waking up a lot sooner, that's 9 hours without food. Most babies really do wake up during the night to eat until they are much older.
Have you tried giving him a pacifier after you feed and burp him? The pacifier worked great with getting my kids back to sleep when this happened.
Room darkening shades/curtains. It's Summer, and unless there are good curtains up, the light will start coming in at about 0530. So make sure it doesn't. If he still poops, change him silently and quickly in the least light you can manage, pop in the binky, and see if he'll go back to sleep.
My baby's wake up time is 6 am. If he gets up earlier (between 5 and 6) I give him a paci and rock him back to sleep. Otherwise he has a hard time getting through the day. He doesn't poop until later in the day when he has a bottle, though. (For some reason he's decided he only poops when he eats....silly boy.)
What time does your baby go to bed? Mine is almost 3 months and he goes to bed around 7:30, we give him a bottle in his sleep about 10, and then he gets up about 2 for another bottle and then is good until 6.
If you are interacting with him, turning the light on, talking to him, looking him in the eye, he's going to wake up and think that's the time to get up every day. If he poops, try to change him with as little light as possible (we have a dim Iron Man night light above the changing table) don't talk to him, just change him and put him back to bed.
