Early to Bed, Early to Rise Makes Mommy Crazy











  1. Teething? What time does she normally go to bed… Audreys bedtime is at 8pm if I put her to sleep at 7 or at 9 she wakes up way too early – man they make us be perfect LOL

  2. Energy drinks where my life source for a while…good luck:) !

  3. my girl has always always always gotten up before anything or anyone and once we weaned her from middle of the night feedings (at 11 months- oy), we still gave her an early morning bottle bc during the workweek she has to be up early anyway as we have to both be out the door by 6. well… that morning bottle is now given to her while she’s still in bed (she holds the bottle as i try not falling asleep leaning over the crib) and when she’s done, she continues to lay there and will ALWAYS fall back to sleep. :) sometimes it’s 20 minutes, sometimes an hour or three! try it. what do you have to lose? 😉

  4. Oh, my. Could she be having a growth spurt of some sort? I seem to remember you mentioning that she’d get fussy and not sleep when she was having a growth spurt.

  5. I feel your pain. While Logan is technically asleep from 7:30pm-6:30am, he has been very very restless all night long for over a week. So I am awake at least every hour. I don’t know if it’s growing, a tooth, he’s hot or cold… no idea…
    I just know that I am so.damn.tired.
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  6. If you find a solution, let me know. Mittens has been in a sleep regression period for awhile now after having been a great sleeper for most of her life. Last week she stayed up until 9p, went to bed exhausted, and still woke up at 6a. I have no answers.
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  7. Holy moly. 5:10 is an ungodly hour to wake up. I feel for you. I wish I had words of advice, but honestly, the best I can do is “this too shall (likely) pass”. Hopefully it will pass quickly!

  8. Once my oldest was squarely sleeping through the night, and I mean for several months, we established the 7 am rule. We never went in & got him before 7. Ever. Now for him, 6:30 – 6:45 was a typical wake up time, so we weren’t leaving him in there for hours. There was a baby mirror and another crib toy he could play with if he wanted. But he was on his own until 7. He is 4 now & we have gone thru stretches where he has gotten up and wandered the house before we wake up, but in general he knows that until we come get him, he plays in his room. So maybe make a 6 am rule. She can cry. It’s really ok. She will be fine. Really. If you have a really hard time, start with 5:30, move to 5:45. She will learn. Really. Oh, and if you have a baby monitor in your bedroom: TURN. IT. OFF. Hearing the little noises does nothing but keep you from sleeping. If she’s really crying, you’re gonna hear her. Anyway, my 2 cents.

  9. With Pookah, I found that weaning him from those night time feedings was half the battle.
    But the rest of it simply was timing. He used to go to bed at 7pm on the dot. and wake up anywhere from 5 to 515 am.
    Not cool.
    Then we tried 8 pm. When he goes to sleep( not starting the rountine, but done, in his room, lights out) right between 8 and 815, he sleeps until 645 7 am.
    But if he goes to sleep anytime past 830, he will wake up during the night AND he will wake up at EXACTLY 5 am.
    So 8pm it is.
    So I think you just have to find Nellie’s time.
    (To make a long story short) :-)

  10. I second what others have said … you have to find the perfect bedtime. For us it’s nine. If he goes to bed at nine, he sleeps through the night — any earlier, and he’s up at three and sometimes five before getting up for good.

    My trick is to bring the baby in bed with me if he wakes up early. No playing, just snuggles. Eventually he gets the idea that there won’t be any playtime if he gets up earlier. Kind of a compromise, but I would far rather doze with a sleepy baby than be forced out of bed to make breakfast.
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