Early riser--> what did I do wronge???

[ablatt]

Hello
Generally all the advices Tracy has written in her book works great on my 10 months baby girl… BUT…
She used to get up at 6.30 AM after going to sleep at 7PM (NO COMPLAIN HERE!!!), in the past 1-2 months she wakes earlier every day. We are in a day saving time clock now, so if I compare it to the winter time she wakes up at 4AM now!!!! )-:
I have tried the waking her up 1 hour earlier like Tracy recommended in her book, in order to break the routine but this makes the things worse, she gets used to wake up at the time I half wake her up. So she wakes up at 5, Five days ago, I woke her up at 4 for 3 days and now she wake up at around 4. At 4.30 she wants to get our of bad totally awake,
HELP… I think this method doesn’t work for her. What should I do??? She is extremely tired when she gets up, but is reluctant to go back to sleep.

Thanks
Anat

[*Natasha*]

Glad you worked out how to post. Could you post your routine for us please?

[ablatt]

Hi
Thanks.
Our LO wakes at the past 3 months around 4-4.30 AM (we have changed the clock a month ago so it is 5.30)
She goes to sleep around 7.30PM or a bit earlier, no later then 8PM.
Has 2 naps a day around 9-10.30 AM and around 2PM to 3.30PM
She is almost 11 months old.
The thing is, she used to sleep better. around 11-11.30 hours.
H E L P
THANKS A LOT

Just a reminder of the previous message
Hello
Generally all the advices Tracy has written in her book works great on my 10 months baby girl… BUT…
She used to get up at 6.30 AM after going to sleep at 7PM (NO COMPLAIN HERE!!!), in the past 1-2 months she wakes earlier every day. We are in a day saving time clock now, so if I compare it to the winter time she wakes up at 4AM now!!!! )-:
I have tried the waking her up 1 hour earlier like Tracy recommended in her book, in order to break the routine but this makes the things worse, she gets used to wake up at the time I half wake her up. So she wakes up at 5, Five days ago, I woke her up at 4 for 3 days and now she wake up at around 4. At 4.30 she wants to get our of bad totally awake,
HELP… I think this method doesn’t work for her. What should I do??? She is extremely tired when she gets up, but is reluctant to go back to sleep.

Thanks
Anat
   

[clh]

Just wanted to say you're not alone.  My ds2 (dear son #2) started doing this at a similar age.  We've taken 2 tactics:
1) Early on, we treated it as a night waking.  Try to settle.  Include nursing if needed (and it usually did ).  Daddy would go in & try to settle him until at least 5:30.  That's not where I want to end up, but I was willing to compromise to start.  That's when I'd go in & feed.  I could usually get him to nap again after that, till maybe 6:30 or so.  (Remember, I'm counting this as a "night" waking, so didn't strictly use EASY.)  And then I'd top him off at 7am, which is where I wanted his "feeding" day to start.
2) Lately, we're letting him fuss more (not scream or a get-in-here-now cry...  more like a mantra cry), so I'll go in for a feed at more like 5:15, but Daddy isn't going in before that.  So slowly, he's waking a little later.  So far, that's going well.  Watch.  Now that I've said all that I'll have jinxed myself.   

Good luck.  And remember you may not have done *anything* wrong.  Babies don't read the books, even ones as good as Tracy's.