Hi all,
This is probably a silly post as with a baby we expect to get up a tad earlier than we used too don't we !!
But - what do you do when Lo wakes at 6-6:30am most mornings now ? I give her a bottle but don't want to get up myself so bring her into bed with us - and she plays and talks etc(but its hard work as she is moving all ove the place !). Then eventually get up about 7:30-8am to give her brekkie and then I have mine and get showered and dressed etc. I am probably getting 6 hours sleep a night so not bad but its a killer at weekends especially as DH looks sooo knackered too and needs sleep !
What do you guys do ? Some of my friends say that once they have fed them they bring them into bed and they both go back to sleep........but my LO is WIDE AWAKE !!! S XX

It depends on Dylan, I have a rule no get up before 6, but most mornings were both up at 6, he has a bottle he then gets dressed and has a nap, this means I can have a shower and get dressed he then gets ups again we have a play and he has his breakfast at 9, then another nap. However some mornings he will come into our bed at 6 and go back to sleep, this is usually when DH is home though, or he will have his bottle a little play and then go back to sleep with daddy.

I dont mind early mornings its late nights that do me in. Think i'm getting old :lol:

For the last couple of weeks Jacks been waking earlier & earlier but actually starts moaing (sometimes crying) from 3am onwards. We leave him a while to see what he does but end up going through & giving him his dummy which usually does the trick but 30mins later he's back to moaning!!!! No idea why & its driving us mad. Im like dylansmummy though, I dont get Jack out of bed till at least 6am but Im awake from 3am, only dozzing inbetween getting up to put his dummy in so I am shatterd. We have tried moving his bath/bedtime to latebut even that doesnt keep him sleeping (without a noise) till 6am or there about. Its not the light morning as his room is dark enough so I have no idea why hes (half) waking from 3am. Maybe need to leave him longer to he can settle himself again.

Oh I need him to be up around 6am as this is the time he will be getting up when I go back to work so its good practice before

Stacey & Jack
xx

Scarlett doing exactly the same, Im exhausted, the day has become much longer and my sleep total seriously shortened too x

Any ideas also greatfully recieved x

Inka xxx

wish i could help but Tyler is the same too, usually dead on 6am sometimes before. I tried putting him back down but this was a pointless excercise, now my hubs comes downstairs with him and i get an extra hour in bed, then i get up and by then Tyler wants to go back to sleep so we go back to bed. But for the past two morning we bring him into bed with us and then within 30 mins i take him back to bed for and hour or so. So we go back to bed. Doesn't happen every morning though !

Sarah

I also impose the no earlier than 6am rule. We use dummy-run or pupd to get him back off to sleep. Hubby then will bring him in to me in bed where I bf him - this can be any time usually from 7-745 lately. There is no chance of getting him to go back to sleep then so we are up and he has porridge, then a bit of a play. I usually put him back down for a sleep about an hour after he gets up.

I am at the end of my tether with these early starts. My little one starts stirring any time from 3am. He is usually wide awake at around 5:30am & I usually feed him by 6am every morning. It is a nightmare as I am so tired. On the other hand, though, this will probably help when I go back to work in September, but I am so tired with these early mornings. Once I've put him down for his sleep, I then get sorted, clean the kitchen etc as once I'm awake, I find it almost impossible to get back to sleep again - regardless of how tired I am.

Reassuring to know I'm not the only one with an early bird!!

Dx