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Is there a way to solve this baby sleep issue?
In the past week or so, DD has been STTN....which is great, except she started waking at 6am for the day instead of 7am. Sunday she woke at 5:55, Monday 5:45 and today 5:35. I let her fuss a bit this morning but she really started hollering after about 10 minutes. I have to believe she's hungry since her last feeding was 11 hours prior. So I nurse her, but I try to get her to go back to sleep and she usually dozes while nursing and gets cozy in her crib to make it appear that she will go back to sleep...but then after about 5-10 minutes it's clear that she's not going back to sleep. We usually bring her into bed with us, but after about 20 minutes or so she starts yawning and fussing and makes me think she should still be sleeping.
Anyone else deal with this? Is it possible to get her wake-time back to 7am? If so, how? I wouldn't mind even after 6, but she's so grumpy when she wakes up that early. On the weekends it usually means a nap by 7:15, which kind of screws up the rest of the day. She used to wake up around 7am, nap at 9am and 2pm, and bed by 7pm. Now with that super early nap, she ends up needing two more naps or she's miserable by 5:30pm.
Her bedtime has been consistently 7pm since she was 2 months old. Twice in the past week we kept her out until 8pm - wake-up time remained steady at 6am.
ETA: I have no idea why the font is ginormous.
Re: Is there a way to solve this baby sleep issue?
Well, yes, that could be possible. She's 8 months and has no teeth yet. I can see buds, but her gums aren't swollen or anything...and the buds have been visible for a long time.
I feel like I blame everything on teething, haha.
Story of my life haha! It's almost always true though. We went through what you're going through around 9 months and it turned out he was cutting 4 teeth at once.
I have no personal experience, but someone on another bump board had a similar situation going on (waking early but clearly not really ready to be up for the day) and they started putting LO back in the crib with a toy. Baby would play with the toy for a while and then conk back out....Im sure at 8 months a small stuffed animal, cloth blocks, a sophie or some similar "safe" toy would be fine to throw in the crib with her. Downside is that she might start associating the crib with playtime, but hopefully you will need to do this for such a short time, and only early in the morning, that a habit wont form