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What time does she go to bed? Try a little earlier.
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I am interested to hear if anyone else has gone through this with their baby. My daughter is a pretty good sleeper overall. She goes to be between 6:30pm-7pm. She started sleeping through the night ( at least 8-9 hours straight)about 7-8 months, but she would start her day about 5am. I have tried to put her down later, but she still will wake up around 5ish or even 4:30am. I have tried to put her back to sleep but I realize she just slept 10 hours and she us ready to start her day...so I just dont fight it. The only time she will go back down is if she gets up at 3;00ish am, drinks 6oz of milk, and then she will go down till 6-7:30am. When that happens then her nap schedule is very off.
Now, there was a three day strech that she got up at 5am, napped at 9:00am and then 2pm. I was so excited b/c I felt we were getting some consistency.
I am just wondering if anyone else has expereinced their baby go back and forth with sleeping through the night and then waking up in the middle of the night to feed? Should I try to keep her up longer for her bed time (even though she is clearly readu to do down between 6:60 and 7pm)? Again, it has only been a 3-4 day strech that she slept through the night. Don't get me wrong I am so greatful that she is a good sleeper overall, but now since I am pregnant I need all the rest I can get. I just continue to go with the flow of things. I understand that babies sleep schedules can change, but I was hoping at this point there would be some more consistency.
She is going through seperation anxiety and is not teething...so i am just not sure what is going on or if there is anything I can do so she can sleep more often through the night. Waking up at 5am is fine with me...I would think at this point 6am would be asking too much :)
Thanks for the responses in advance!
What time does she go to bed? Try a little earlier.
Hi there. I, too, have a 10 month old girl who is doing similar things to yours in terms of sleep. She was sleeping from 8pm to 6am, nursing and then often sleeping again until 7am or so, which I loved. Now she is waking once or twice between 1am and 6am, and often producing a bowel movement then , so I feel that I need to check on her. So, for now, my husband and I are taking turns going into her, checking her warmth and smell and then putting her back to bed. I try not to nurse her then, but sometimes do if I've had to have the light on and she has woken up a bit. Like you, I go with the flow and expect that soon enough this pattern will change back to her sleeping through as long as I rarely feed her then and don't talk or do anything exciting that might make her want to keep waking up. I hope our daughters both return to their normal patterns soon. Good luck!
what time are you putting her down? believe it or not, if you put her down EARLIER she may wake up later. we have a book by a dr. weisbluth (can't remember the name - something about happy sleep something), but he recommends trying this and for us it works well. we put our daughter down at 7pm and she wakes up after 6am. good luck!
My oldest son was like this. He was a great sleeper, but an early riser. He is 5 years old and still wakes early and now is fully dressed before 6:30am. Keeping him up later did not change him waking early. I was just more exhausted. So, I went with it as long as he was napping well. We coped by making that 1st hour when he wanted to be up and we wanted to be asleep his time for Baby Einstein. She sounds like she is going to be a good sleeper, so she will be able to do the 12 hour stretch pretty soon.
My son used to go to bed at 9 and wake up around 6 am for a waking up later and later and skipping that morning bottle. One morning I decided to ignore his normal wake up and he went right back to sleep until 9 am. So you may have to train her to go back to sleep. at 11 months he was sleeping 12 hours from 9pm to 9am in his crib. We co-slept until he was 10 and a half months because he was breastfeeding and waking up every 3 hours and then after he went to his crib things were more scheduled and he slept much better. What time do you put your baby down for the night?
