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Offline northof54

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12 month old up at 5am -- YIKES!
« on: April 06, 2008, 15:00:32 pm »
Hi girls!

Thanks in advance for all the help!  I have used the BW techniques on my Textbook baby since he was born :)  He's a great sleeper!  But in the past couple of weeks he's gone from waking at  7-7:15am to 5am this morning.  HELP!

We HAVE had a couple of changes in the house.  My husband went back to work 3 weeks ago after this finish of a parental leave.  He's cutting molars and he had a terrible cold 2 weeks ago.  He started a new daycare and we've been experiencing seperation anxiety during the day now.  He wants me to hold him and cries if I don't when I am home.  I guess the 5am wakings is just part of our problem.  His routine is something like this:

(or WAS something like this):

7am -- wake -- 6oz bottle
7:30am - breakfast
8:00 - activity
9:30 - 10:30 - nap
11:30 - 6oz bottle
12:00 - lunch
1:30 - 2:00 -- nap for 1.5 - 2 hours
4:30 - bottle
5:30 - supper
7:00 -- bed

Thanks for any advice!
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Re: 12 month old up at 5am -- YIKES!
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2008, 17:13:51 pm »
Oh I know how scary it is when they wake up so early! There have been many changes going on so that could definintely be playing a part, but one thing I thought of was that your LO's at the age where he may start transitioning to 1 nap which could be causing the EW's. There's some info. in the Naps forum regarding the 2-1 nap switch and also under faq's titled sleep gone wonky for 10/11 month olds that might have some info. regarding it.

My LO's only 9 months but we've had to recently cut his naps shorter as he was waking around 5am too and was getting too much day sleep. Since we've shortened his naps the EW's have stopped.

Hope that helps some and that today is going well! :)

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Re: 12 month old up at 5am -- YIKES!
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2008, 21:32:25 pm »
thanks :)

I have read that section before.... and we cut his naps from the 1.5 hours in the morning down to max 1 hour.... lots he wakes after 45 minutes.... but he LOVES this nap....

ugh... who said raising kids was easy LOL
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Re: 12 month old up at 5am -- YIKES!
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2008, 14:27:45 pm »
I think we're in the same boat!  I don't have the answer yet re: the EWs...except I'm just trying to cut down on daytime naps.  I may also need to then bump bedtime a little earlier like yours...

I have a side question for you though.  I liked your schedule around bottle/meals - do you do a bottle anymore right before bed? or just the 3 bottles, 1/2 hr before meals?  My LO will only drink a max of 6oz a bottle, and even less lately - so I'm thinking our LOs may be similar.  I just wasn't sure what result would happen from dropping the bedtime bottle? 
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Re: 12 month old up at 5am -- YIKES!
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2008, 15:28:44 pm »
Just thought I'd post our routine w/bottles meals as my Lo has recently went to 3 bottles. It's been working great! I like the idea of having a bottle before bed and I read somewhere on here that the bedtime bottle should be one that's kept as it's usually the last one to be dropped. Here's what we do:

7:00-Wake/6oz. Bottle

8:30-Breakfast Solids

10:00-11:00 Nap

12:00-Lunch Solids

1:30-6oz. Bottle

2:00-3:15 Nap

3:30-Snack/water in sippy

6:30-6oz. Bottle

7:00 Bed
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Re: 12 month old up at 5am -- YIKES!
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2008, 01:18:27 am »
hum.... I'm really wracking my brain here.... but I don't remember giving him a night time bottle.... it's been months and months...
Well this morning was 6am... so a little better... and the teeth and stuff must be settling down because he did play for 45 minutes instead of crying and wanting to get up.... he just lounges... so this is good...
He actually has never really liked the bottle... we could drop them and use sippy cup and he'd be quite happy.... we still use the bottle because frankly, it is just easier for us LOL... he drinks it faster... but for the babysitter he won't drink it and so we tell them just give him the sippy cup....
during meals and before bed and during the day he gets milk or water in the sippy cup too :)

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Re: 12 month old up at 5am -- YIKES!
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2008, 01:56:07 am »
Well 6am is an improvement! :) That's great that he was content playing when he woke too! I hope things continue to go in the right direction and that he makes it until at least 6am again! :)

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Re: 12 month old up at 5am -- YIKES!
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2008, 01:12:24 am »
woo hoo! 6:30am this morning and played in his crib until I got him at 7:00am :)

improvement -- whew....

I do think it was a disruption with everything going on :)
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Re: 12 month old up at 5am -- YIKES!
« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2008, 01:17:36 am »
That's great news!  ;D
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