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Offline sl60

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Waking early
« on: November 17, 2006, 19:51:19 pm »
I was so proud of myself for how the night weaning of my dd was going. For the last three nights she has been waking at some point between 2 and 4 am. She goes back to sleep fairly easily (better every night) but she's waking up at 5-5.30 am. Our normal wake up time is 6. So far I've just fudged it and pretended it was time to get up and gone ahead nursed. I would rather she sleep until 6. Any ideas? Should I jst tough it out and try to get her back to sleep even if it takes half an hour?
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Re: Waking early
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2006, 01:04:45 am »
I would do wake to sleep at 4a.  It worked for us in the past, and just again last night for a 6a wake.  We will be doing it for the next two nights as well.
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Re: Waking early
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2006, 01:10:36 am »
from my experience if you keep feeding at 5am, then she will keep waking at that time, when I delayed our early feed until after breakfast I started getting longer sleeps. By about the age of 6-9mo their digestive system can often trigger them to wake up about 30mins before they are used to getting the next food/milk & so that is when they learn to wake up... as you have dropped night feeds you are now "timing" her body for a 5am wake up if you keep feeding.
I'd try holding off with doing something else until the time you want it to be & if you can change the feeding to after solid breakfast
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