Arrgghhh 5am is too early to wake!!
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Topic: Arrgghhh 5am is too early to wake!!
Posted By: Lisha
Subject: Arrgghhh 5am is too early to wake!!
Date Posted: 01 May 2007 at 11:00am
My darling little girl Lucy has been waking around 5 - 5.30 ish in the morning and was wondering if this is normal , as she used to wake at 6.30 am... 5am is just a tad too early darling!!! She is teething, so not sure if it is her teeth (molars) or what? I hope it isn't a new pattern! Any suggestions?? ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: emeldee
Date Posted: 01 May 2007 at 11:03am
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My freak husband does that. He's a morning person. *sigh*
Anyway, back to your wake-up problem - what time is she going to bed at night? You could possibly make that a little later to drag out the sleep in the morning. It could be teething, in which case teething will stop and sleep will return at some stage. What happens if you ignore her at 5? Does she go back to sleep after a while? ------------- |
Posted By: Lisha
Date Posted: 01 May 2007 at 11:08am
Well she has been going to sleep about 7ish, too tired to go any later, yeah we thought about making her stay up at night a little longer. Once awake at 5am... cries out, hubby goes into shhh her, cries more, so give in, he has been great, gets her up while I have a snooze!!  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: emeldee
Date Posted: 01 May 2007 at 11:09am
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Ahhh - what happens if hubby doesn't go in to shhh her. It sounds harsh, but we found with Andrew that if we left him for 5 minutes, he'd work out it wasn't up time and go back to sleep. ------------- |
Posted By: Lisha
Date Posted: 01 May 2007 at 11:14am
Ok.. it's time to get mean then! thanks for the advice!! I need my beauty sleep! ha ha.  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 01 May 2007 at 11:52am
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We do the same as Emeldee, if its too early and they're not 'real' crying, just leave them to it for 5-10 mins and usually they'll nod off again.
I found going in to resettle just made them want to be up with me. Good luck! here's hoping you get some more sleep soon! ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: ellabellame
Date Posted: 01 May 2007 at 11:57am
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i agree with the others. mikey went through a stage where he was waking up at 5-5.30am every morning, i stuck it out for about 2 weeks but then i'd had enough and got tough.
good luck, i hope you start being able to have a bit more sleep soon. ------------- |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 01 May 2007 at 12:06pm
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My guess is that the teething is waking her out of light sleep at that time of day. The darkness is on your side, you can go in, give her a quick cuddle and say "it's still night-time honey, see you in the morning" and tuck her back in. At her age it should work a treat.
If it continues more than a couple of days you may need to keep her up another 1/2 hr in the evenings. -------------  |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 01 May 2007 at 2:46pm
well it never worked for toby...when he woke up it was time to get up... i would just leave her for a little bit and see if she goes back to sleep. |
busymum wrote:Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 01 May 2007 at 2:48pm
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he he i just wrote something about ayja waking at that time in the other post about nap help.. I spin a load of bollocks some times. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: nictoddie
Date Posted: 01 May 2007 at 2:53pm
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my kids have always been early rises both of them! They are generally up from 5ish to 6ish most mornings, my dh starts work at 6am so they prob hear him mucking around getting breakie and ready for work he is quite quiet as well so it's not him waking them cos he is noisey, miss m slept till 6.20am was very nice this morning, also it does not matter what time they go to bed at night some nights they are in bed by 6.30pm and even if they stayed up till 9pm they still wake around that time, I have just learnt to live with it but can be tiring sometimes ------------- 
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 01 May 2007 at 3:36pm
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I hear you on the waking cos others are up. When i am on a run of mornings.. they get well and treuly stuck into that pattern, especially Ayja, and will wake up at 5.30 when i get up for my shower etc.. we try and get them to bed early on those days and make sure daycare pushes it with ensuring sleeps (especially for miss whingy paris who is horrible if she is tired). it takes a long time to get them back out of that pattern. I don't actually mind afternoon shifts too terribly sometimes just cos it means they sleep better. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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