Putting your baby or toddler to bed later at night might make your baby wake up later in the morning. So, consider moving both the feeding and sleeping schedule (as if it were daylight savings time one more time) to help your baby wake up later. You’ll have to move the whole schedule to have a real effect. Well, my interpretation of this is that you can’t just move one or two small parts of your baby’s routines (like only the wake-up time). You might be struggling hard to delay your baby’s wake up time even by 10 minutes, only to notice that delaying your baby’s schedule a whole hour to adjust to daylight savings time will only take a few days…
#Baby wake up time how to
It’s worth a try! To learn how to dreamfeed your baby, read this post.
Since the baby will be full, chances are that he or she will sleep past 4.30 AM. Then the baby will hopefully still tired enough to fall asleep again right away. For example, if you dreamfeed at 11 PM, your baby may not wake up for the next feed until 2 AM. You can try to push the wake-up time by dreamfeeding your baby when you go to bed. This last time, your baby is then quite alert after having slept since 9 PM. I think this was where our problems with our youngest baby began our bedroom was much too light at night, and he got used to waking up at 5 AM.įor babies that are still quite young, and young enough to feed at night, dreamfeeding can help push the wake-up time.įor example, let’s say your baby falls asleep in the evening at 9 PM, wakes to feed at 1 AM, and then wakes to feed again at 4.30 AM. Make sure your baby’s bedroom is really dark at night especially during summer. Melatonin, the sleep hormone, needs the darkness to tell the body to stay asleep. Just like daylight is important during the day, darkness is very important at night. If your baby is very young and seems to have days and nights mixed up, you’ll find tips on what to do here. Also, make sure to take your baby outside a lot.Īctivities may seem odd for very young babies, but even being carried around in a sling or baby carrier or babbling and making eye contact are activities for a young baby. Place the bed out of the sun, but close to a window if it is not too drafty. Don’t draw the curtains when the baby is taking a nap. With older ones, this is often solved more or less automatically.ĭaylight is important to help your baby’s body get used to being awake during the day and sleeping at night. Adjust the feeding and sleeping scheduleĪctivities and daylight are really important to remember if your baby wakes up too early, especially for really young babies.And remember, just because a particular tip didn’t work for us, it may still solve your problem. I’ll tell you here all the tips that I’ve learned when your baby wakes up too early. It turned out that making babies sleep longer in the morning is hard and tips to deal with it are scarce. So we tried all the tips we could find to change our baby’s sleep pattern. We didn’t have any time for ourselves, or for anything other than sleeping while the kids were sleeping. Or 3.30 AM once.īig disaster! Our oldest son wanted to stay up until 9.30 PM and our youngest woke up at 5 AM (if we were lucky…). Our youngest baby, who kindly slept through the night at the age of four months, suddenly decided when he was 10 months old that 5 AM was a great time to get out of bed. I’ve heard “experts” say over and over again that anything after 5 AM is an acceptable wake-up time for babies. If your baby wakes up too early in the morning, it can be really hard to cope with it AND fix it.
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