Early Waking 8 Month Old

If you find out how, please let me know!! :-) My 9 month old absolultely crashes by 7pm and is up by 5am every morning. And it's been compounded by the time change :-z He's in daycare 3 days a week and doesn't nap there as well as he does at home so by 6:30pm on those nights he's crashing and burning. My only hope is to try and keep him up later on the days he's home and napping more with the hope that he'll go down later and hence sleep later. And once he's up, he's up.....there's no bottle and back to bed for us :-) Good luck and you are most definitely not alone!!

My daughter has always been an early riser and wakes up at 5 a.m. most days. She goes to sleep at 7 p.m. as well. Though she is 10 months old she is still waking up to eat about 75% of the time. Every kid is different.

Ten hours straight sleep is awesome! Feel blessed. Is she truly hungry when she wake or just a wet diaper? Try changing her and if she take a pacifier let her have that at 5am and see if there is any change. Good luck.

Nope what i see is normal. At this age all the children i have watched get up about the same time. The only suggestion is to make sure her room is very dark. She will start to sleep a little longer. By about 1yr she will be sleeping until about 6:30am.

If she is waking up then she is still hungary. Increase her feeding in the day slowly, while slowly decreasing her 5am feeding. Also, try to get her feeding to go later and later each day. Use a pacifier, shush her to sleep with your voice, and rub her stomach. As soon as she is quiet, leave the room and wait until she is crying for 3-5 minutes before going back in. If you see she is definetly hungary and getting out of control, then feed her. You want her to be able to go back to sleep.

i'd be pretty thankful if i were in your shoes. my 7.5 month old daughter does not go to sleep until 9-10 PM, and she always wakes up at 4 or 5 AM. After that, she will only take short naps the rest of the morning. this is very normal for a baby her age!

I'd say throw your book away. Sounds normal, especially for teething, at this age. If you were the one to wake up at 5 am and can't get back to sleep for whatever reason, you'd be hungry too. You're just not hungry because you're sleeping through that time. She isn't. She is waking, perhaps the beremetric pressure during change of season, teething, growing pains, etc... are all contributing.

I know it's a pain to be woken at 5 am, and even if she goes back to sleep, you sometimes can't get back to sleep. In a perfect world, children will sleep exactly when they are supposed to. However, in reality children don't always adhere to schedules, mostly because they are organic beings and they are individuals.

They also go through growth spurts and require more calories during that time (are you nursing her?)

That said, there are some gentle techniques that I found in a book (I lent it out and don't have it in front of me right now) called No Cry Sleep Solutions For Toddlers.

Good luck!