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How time flies! Caileigh (9), Keira (6) & Eamon (3)
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Adjusting toddler's internal clock - aka the 5:00 am wake up...
I thought a few of you had/have early risers. Eamon wakes b/w 5-5:30 like clockwork. I usually let him go in his crib b/c he will cry, stop, cry etc.. but once I know he won't go back to sleep, I get him and bring him in with me. And while I love the cuddling, I either have one of 3 situations - he falls back asleep but wakes when I get up at 6:30 & is cranky; doesn't go back to sleep and is cranky all morning; decides he wants to roll all over me and I am cranky all morning.
He goes to bed b/c 8-8:30 so I know he needs more sleep he just can't get over that 5 am time.
I'm nervous for the time change and he starts waking at 4!
Advice?
How time flies! Caileigh (9), Keira (6) & Eamon (3)
Re: Adjusting toddler's internal clock - aka the 5:00 am wake up...
I have no advice, but can offer my sympathy. I have somehow ended up with not one, but TWO early risers!! jake's 4:30am-5am wakeup call went on a looooooong time. Liam's was shorter, but I can't say that I did anything to change it. He does still have some random days where he wakes up at 5:30 or so, but (knock on wood) for the past month or so, he's been waking up at 6 or a little after consistently.
but again, it was nothing I did, other than just continuing to go in at 5 or 5:30 or whenever he woke and having him lay back down, patting his bum for a few minutes, then telling him it was still night night time. I know a lot of times, he wouldn't go back to sleep in there, i'd hear him babbling on the monitor, but I guess maybe eventually he figured out that no one would play with him at that hour!
Jake - 1.15.08
Liam - 5.17.11
I dont think you can adjust that - hate to say it.= /
One would think that if they went to bed later they would get up later but that has never been the case for us!
Adam is up between 7 and 7:30 NO MATTER WHAT. the latest he has EVER slept in in 4 year is 8 am.
He has stayed up to midnight on new years- 7 am he is wide a wake. He stayed up til 2 am with my niece recently when we took our nephew out for his 21st and he was up at 7:45. In the least he is crabby and might take a nap- which he hasnt done regularly in years.
Bed time has gone for 8 to 8:30 and is currently at 9. he is still up at 7-7:30. I had to push bed time to 9 because all i did from 8:30-9 was get called up stairs or yell at him to get back in bed for a half hour anyway. Now at 9 he mostly willingly goes to bed.
Actually, I'd say 50% of the time he gets up at 5-5:30 am. I am not sure if I wake him or he trained himself to wake because when we broke cosleeping he is only allowed in our bed to sleep if one of us is not there. I am getting ready for work at that time so he jumps in bed with DH- he will chat and talk and probably could be away if he had too, but he will go back to sleep for 2 hrs.
Good Luck is all I can say and if you figure it out- PLEASE SHARE! lol.
Married, September 23, 2006
How old is he? DD goes through phases. Generally she is an early riser, but sometimes she'll sleep in (and by sleeping in I mean 7). But we went throught a bad phase that lasted a while of her waking at 5am or earlier and it drove us crazy. I ended up getting a clock that you can set a time and it turns green. So we used that for a while with her. So if she woke up before the clock turned green and came into our room, I'd take her back in and remind her that she needed to wait till the clock was green to come out. If she didn't want to go back to sleep that was fine, she could read or play in her room. It worked really well for a while, but we just got out of the habit of using it because she was doing pretty well. I was just thinking that we may have to start using it again.
Anyways, I can't remember if we started last year or the year before! Probably last year when she was 3.
But when younger, there really wasn't much we'd do that would work, and just one day she'd for some reason switch to a phase of sleeping in. Right now she has been in a phase of waking up around 2 and 5 and wanting to sleep in our bed.So I've just been trying to be diligent in taking her back to her room. But DH isn't and so that just encourages her.
Its hard though because we work during the week and she needs to be up by a certain time to get ready. 7 is really getting too late. So sleeping in just on the weekends never works.
Oh and one of the things that affects her wakeup is how dark/light it is outside. We have room darkening shades but they only do so much. She is convinced that how early it is depends on how light it is outside. In the summer she's up earlier. Today she slept in some and told me that we shouldn't have woken up yet because its still dark out.
How time flies! Caileigh (9), Keira (6) & Eamon (3)
Jake - 1.15.08
Liam - 5.17.11