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Offline jessmum46

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Re: Later BT ever the answer to early waking?
« Reply #30 on: July 30, 2015, 18:11:36 pm »
Please send some 'something change soon' vibes this way! 

Spoke to DH and he would rather not go later than 7pm BT for now, he like me will accept 6am wake up.  DDs bedtime is 6.45pm ish so 7pm does fit our family quite well - otherwise we'll be doing BT for hours in the evening!  So we are trying for a consistent 7pm for the time being.  Three days of it so far and not much shift in WU, though he didn't yell for me until 5.50am this morning so maybe dozed until then from 5.30 stirring.  He was very tired by BT tonight despite a good 2h10 nap :(. Felt very mean keeping him up when he so clearly wanted to sleep :( :( but fingers crossed this means he might crash soon with positive effect.  Keep cheering me on ladies xx
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Re: Later BT ever the answer to early waking?
« Reply #31 on: July 30, 2015, 18:52:10 pm »
vibes your way!
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Re: Later BT ever the answer to early waking?
« Reply #32 on: July 30, 2015, 19:22:08 pm »
Just wanted to offer some hugs and experience hun.

My DS was a chronic EWer...5:30am pretty well every single day pretty much from birth until he was 2.  No amount of tweaking/routine changes/capping naps/EBTs or anything of the sort helped so eventually I just stopped even attempting to solve it.  EBTs never worked, in fact the made things 10 x worse so I just set BT to 7pm no matter what - wake up time, nap length...didn't matter, BT was 7pm.  It was the only way I could keep sane was with a predictable BT.

Eventually, it worked itself out on its own.  Around 2-2.5yrs his WU just started getting later and now he'll typically wake anytime between 6:30 - 7:30am, and the odd time he'll even sleep until 8am.  I don't have any real advice unfortunately, just that sometimes trying to figure these things out is more stress than it's worth...at least it was for me.  After 1.5 years of trying to figure it out I simply gave up and resigned myself to the fact that he was quite simply just an early riser.  I know how hard it is, 5:30 (or earlier!) is an AWFUL time to get up every day.  (((HUGS))) Hang in there!!
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Re: Later BT ever the answer to early waking?
« Reply #33 on: July 30, 2015, 19:38:47 pm »
Big big hugs and vibes....I feel your pain as DS was an EW! Like Lindsay we seem to have passed it and mostly it's 6.20-6.40 now anything after 6 I'm happy as a bunny x
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Re: Later BT ever the answer to early waking?
« Reply #34 on: July 31, 2015, 03:03:43 am »
Since you'll are fine with 6am WU, 7pm BT is perfect. I held firmly at 7pm for ages and it helped. Don't use EBT at all. Just stick to that fixed BT. He's doing good naps now, so should be fine. And you could try for a quick CN if absolutely necessary.
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Re: Later BT ever the answer to early waking?
« Reply #35 on: July 31, 2015, 05:21:23 am »
It is 6.20am and I'm waiting for him to wake up ;D
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Re: Later BT ever the answer to early waking?
« Reply #36 on: July 31, 2015, 07:42:16 am »
Yuhuuu!
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Re: Later BT ever the answer to early waking?
« Reply #37 on: July 31, 2015, 08:07:36 am »
Yay!
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Re: Later BT ever the answer to early waking?
« Reply #38 on: July 31, 2015, 14:01:20 pm »
Oh that's wonderful Kath! Long may it continue - and enjoy the days when it does!
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Re: Later BT ever the answer to early waking?
« Reply #39 on: July 31, 2015, 14:04:26 pm »
Quote from: jessmum46 on July 31, 2015, 05:21:23 am
It is 6.20am and I'm waiting for him to wake up
You should be sleeping!!! LOL :P
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Re: Later BT ever the answer to early waking?
« Reply #40 on: July 31, 2015, 15:19:45 pm »
Haha sadly I have to get up for work ::) hoping he's had a decent nap at nursery today so we can cement this better WU time, here's hoping!!
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Re: Later BT ever the answer to early waking?
« Reply #41 on: July 31, 2015, 15:25:08 pm »
Quote from: jessmum46 on July 31, 2015, 15:19:45 pm
Haha sadly I have to get up for work 
I figured as much :) Same thing goes in this house! DH and I up at 6 no matter what.
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Re: Later BT ever the answer to early waking?
« Reply #42 on: July 31, 2015, 15:25:49 pm »
YAY wonderful progress  :-*
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Re: Later BT ever the answer to early waking?
« Reply #43 on: July 31, 2015, 16:22:50 pm »
Quote from: jessmum46 on July 30, 2015, 18:11:36 pm
elt very mean keeping him up when he so clearly wanted to sleep 

I have spent 4 YEARS doing this- ever since we had to push out the very first A time from 1 hour to 1 hour and 5 mins we've been at it!! ::) I was just going to say- we do generally find later to bed is a later wake up. We've never had bed time earlier than 7pm consistently. I think we even had it at 7.30 for the most part (changed it after we dropped the day nap back to 7).

Of course the time children wake up in the morning is DIRECTLY related to whether or not you have to get up in the morning. Hamish is ALWAYS inclined to sleep in on a monday-thursday and be up at 6.15 on a sunday!! (thank you octonaughts for getting us through some early mornings)
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Re: Later BT ever the answer to early waking?
« Reply #44 on: July 31, 2015, 17:58:21 pm »
Yahey  don't you just feel so happy when it's past 6pm x
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