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Support and Chat thread for parents of Early Waking Toddlers #2
Colin Macs Mom:
Continued from http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=107489.0
Good luck!
Melsy:
Thanks Jessica.
You would think after 4 years of early wakings that I would just accept that this is who my child is and give up trying to get a sleep in. ::) But I don't!! I always live in hope!!! ;) Not today though. 5.15am. Sigh. :-\ We bought him a trampoline for his birthday, set it up yesterday, he had a good jump on it in the afternoon, I had fingers crossed when he was in bed by 7pm (he was pretty tired after being in the sun yesterday) and when I heard him at 5.15am.........well I just felt so......down. :( And now my champion sleeping baby #2, who for the past 5 months has been sleeping until 8am has now decided that that is a waste of time and now wakes at about 6.15am. :( There goes my fantasy that at least ONE of them would love to sleep in!
Hope everyone else is having more luck than I am!
Melissa
newmom11:
okay, i've commented on here before but now i'm just confused and need some advice. i have a 14 month old who has always been on the "less than average" side of sleep needs. he's always been about a 6:30am waker, with about 10.5 hours of night sleep. we've been on one nap a day for 2 months, but for the past month i've noticed that my son is sleeping less and less at night. we are usually more like 9.5 hours at night and a 2 hour nap a day. so less than 12 hours of total sleep...i feel like that's very little for a 14 month old...plus i've noticed that he's become a little fussier and touchier lately. this could just be the new toddler phase we are entering, but i have to wonder if it's sleep. his wakings are now more like 6am or even as early as 5:30. i'd say we average about 5:50 everyday. i could understand a 5:50 waking if my son went to bed at 6:30 and slept for almost 12 hours, but he's getting up at 5:50 after only 9.5 hours of sleep. please help. i am very discouraged and at loss as to how to solve this. i need so much sleep and i hate waking up discouraged EVERY morning from a toddler who gets up way before my husband's alarm even goes off for the day. thanks
BensMamma:
Hi Everyone. I'm new to this thread and could use some support and advice. My 10 month old has always been a habitual EW'r, yet every day I continue to try to get him to go back to sleep with PU/PD...or lately, a bottle of milk since he's been sick and not eating much the night before. It doesn't work though, he just lies there and plays, and sometimes cries until I turn on the light and get him up. I'm concerned because he's getting dark circles under his eyes now, and he rubs his eyes a lot during the day like he's tired. He gets an average of 10.5 hours per night, and only 2 hours during the day (2 one-hour naps). I've tried moving his bedtime earlier, but that resulted in even earlier wakings, so now we're back to 7 p.m. I'm afraid that 12.5 hours for the entire day is not enough, but I don't know what to do. This morning he woke (crying...always crying) at 0515, and when I laid him back down, he rolled around until 0550, then started crying again. I gave him a bottle and laid him back down, but he just cried and sat up/stood up more. So, I did PD for the next 30 minutes until he was crying so hard that he threw up! I don't feel good about this. Is there another way to help him sleep without upsetting him so much? Should I just let him get up when he wants, and then work on extending his naps instead? Any advice would really help. Thanks.
RACHPEM:
WE are sstruggling with ew what seems like forever. For about 2-3 months now we have been getting 4.30 ish wake ups and short naps and I have no idea how to put it right. It went really wrong when we attemped btc and have not been able to get back on track since. Maya has never been a good napper/sleeper and has only just sttn at 20 months!!! I cant cope with 4.30 much longer I am going out of my mind. I have tried almost every combo and keep thinking maybe she just needs less sleep than the average kid.
Any suggestions?
Rachael x
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