My son is 12 months old and gets up pretty much most mornings betweem 6 and 6:30 AM. Does anyone have ideas on how to stretch this out a bit longer. 7AM would be perfect for getting myself ready in the AM on workdays and a sane time on the weekends.
I went through this. Put him to bed latter and see what happens. It might take a week though because his body will be use to getting up early.
A few things that you might consider.
1. what time is his last feeding at night, and what type of feeding is it? He might not be getting a herty enough meal at night and thus waking up hungry.
2. how active is he at night/durring the day, soemtimes more activity can help them to sleep better at night.
I've tried everything and my son is usually awake anywhere from 5:30 ish to 6:30. Its not the most ideal situation but I cant get him to sleep in later. We pushed his bedtime back, we've moved it up. We've put up room darkening shades and white noise...nothing works. Its just his nature to rise early.
The only things I can think of are room darkening shades and putting him to bed a bit later at night. I too need time to get ready in the morning so as my daughter (now 21 months)kept getting up earlier, I kept moving the bedtime back a bit. Now I put her to sleep at about 8:10 and she wakes between 7:15-7:30.
The shades we purchased from Budget Blinds are called "Blackout Shades" and work wonders. They are a bit spendy but well worth an extra hour of sleep on a Saturday!
A.,
The only thing that helped my daughter sleep longer in the morning is... window curtains - the kind that doesn't let any light through. As soon as we put those on the windows - the very next morning we enjoyed an extra hour (!!!) of sleep!
We previously had blinds on her windows, she was waking up 6:00 AM sharp every morning. I was thinking about also putting curtains on top of blinds to make the room darker, but you know, no time to do it. Now we have both blinds and curtains and close both for the night, and when we forget to do it she wakes up early :).
We also tried pushing back her bedtime and feeding more for the night, but that didn't help. It's like she had an internal clock and would always wake up at 6!
Hope that helps!
What's always worked for me is pushing back bedtime. I know alot of people put their little one's to bed around 7-8pm and I've never ever put my daughter to bed that early. We're more like 9pmish sometimes later and my daughter has NEVER woken up to early. Maybe I'm lucky or maybe my daughter is just a night owl but she is a great sleeper and weekdays she wakes up at 8:30am and weekends usually 9am and later.
Hi A.,
We just had the same deal with our 1year old son. We actually put a few board books in the bottom of his bed and now he just gets up and reads and plays with them till 8am with no peeps. It did take a few days for him to get the concept of what we were trying to get him to do...but when he got it we gained a full hour + out of it. Good luck.
M.
We had the same problem with my son and he was older so it probley wasn't feedings but he would get up at 6-6:30 everyday when we finished off our basemnet he had a new bedroom down there and he started sleeping til 8-8:30 2 extra hours the only thing I can think of is its darker and we have blinds on his windows. But it has been great!!!
