What time does your DC wake up?

[cocopop]

DD is 10 months old and consistently wakes up at 6 am. I know, that's not that bad but I am not a morning person at all and I'm having a hard time getting up with her. I think the winter time has a lot to do with it as it doesn't even get light out until 8 am so having it be dark for two hours after she gets up is like torture for me.

Did your DC start sleeping later at a certain age? Is there any hope for her to sleep an hour, heck, even a half hour longer?

Also, what do you do when your DC gets up so early and it's just the two of you? Do you sit and play, watch TV, drink gallons of coffee....????

BTW, I go to bed very early so I'm getting enough sleep, I think it's just that it's still dark outside that gets me. :(

[mia's mama]

another 6am baby here (she's nearly 14 months)...I would love for her to sleep until 7am, but I don't know how to make it happen! I have tried putting her to bed later (she goes to sleep between 6:30-7pm), but she just starts falling apart at the end of the night, and STILL gets up at 6am. I'm thinking that once she drops her 2nd nap she might sleep a little later? Who knows...

DH cuts me a break and gets up with her 2-3 times/week, so I can sleep until 7, but on the days where it's my turn, I just lie on the family room floor with her and read books, play etc. while I "properly" wake up. I used to guzzle down a cup or 2 of coffee while doing so, but now I just suffer through it (since I'm PG). DD goes back down for her AM nap by about 8:30am, and I use that hour or 2 to zone out in front of the Today show.

[Jenyfer9]

DS#1 usually gets up around 6:45. I say usually because forever he got up at 7, and then with the time change this past October, he bumped it back... and was getting up MUCH earlier. However, he's normalized SOME (not entirely), and yesterday actually slept until 7:05! It was sooooo nice.

DS#2 on the other hand... this morning he was up and yapping away at 5:25. Yesterday it was 5:15. Usually he ends up going back to sleep, but it's not until probably 6:15 or so.

Some kiddos are just early risers. Sucks, but...

ooops, didn't answer your question: Daytime (for us) starts at 7. Anything before that takes place in their rooms. So while I may be up having a cup of coffee or something, the kiddos stay in their rooms until 7 (or later, if they are sleeping by some strange chance). I think that the more you do with them until the "day starts" the more they look forward to that time.

[goldfish]

We have another 6am child here too - DD is 2 years old. She's pretty much always been an early riser except for those infant days when she wasn't on any kind of schedule. When she gets up, if we're still sleepy we bring her in our bed and let her watch a half hour of Barney before we get up. Sometimes I'll go in her room and we'll hang out reading books while DH sleeps. We've gotten used to it. Oh, and I always set the coffee maker the night before so the coffee is ready. :)

[BooeyJ2]

9 1/2 months old.

Today she woke up at 7:30am (went to sleep at 8pm).

[marchfamily]

DD is 12 months and has been getting at between 6-6:30am for months (used to be around 5:30am). No getting around it in our house.

ETA: She goes to sleep between 6:30-7pm.

[Renrel]

DS is not an early riser but I was going to suggest leaving some toys of some sort in the crib and maybe DC will learn to entertain self when they wake. I am not sure when DS, now 2, wakes up. I week days I wake him at about 7am and he is sort of half awake already. On weekends we sleep till 9am or later and when we go in DS is usually playing/talking to his animals. So long as the game does not include the animal jumping out of the crib he stays happy for along time this way. The only problem is naps are messed up royally. We so love sleeping late though that we can't seem to break the habit.

[pontmarie]

6:45 to 7am, unless a tooth is bugging him - he has 3 coming in right now.

He used to go to sleep at 9pm and wake up at 4 or 5, but we started putting him to bed earlier and earlier and now he goes from 7pm to 6:45 -7 am.

I nurse him when he wakes up, then he plays but doesn't need me to play *with* him, we have his toys in the living room and it's gated off from the rest of the house, so I catch up on the news, have some breakfast, read a magazine, but I'm still with him. About an hour later he wants food, so I give him breakfast then and about 30-60 minutes later it's nap time.

He wakes up at 6:45 - 7 no matter when he goes to sleep, sometimes we are out late and he'll go to bed at 9 but he still wakes up at the same time. I try not to put him to bed later than 7, though, because he gets better sleep and is in a way better mood when he gets his 12 hours.

[solongtogo]

DD (4 months) starts stirring around 4:30, and I have to get her up by 5 in order to make it to daycare by 6. Lately though, she's been hungry at 3am, which makes for an incredibly long tiring day for mommy.

[cocopop]

The only problem is naps are messed up royally. We so love sleeping late though that we can't seem to break the habit.

I hear ya! If I let her stay in her crib and cry until she falls back asleep it completely screws up the naps for the day.

Plus, I feel terrible leaving her in her crib past 6 am since she goes to bed at 6 pm. I just wish we could move her hours to 8 pm - 8 am! LOL

So what does everyone do in the morning??? Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in the world up at that hour on the weekends and it totally sucks.

[nancy drew]

usually she is up by 9am. lately she has been going to bed later and sleeping later, though. today we all got up at 10. for us later bedtime always = later wake time. we dont play by the rules ;).

[lorbo]

another one with late-risers-kids are in bed usually 9-10 and they wake about 12 hours later.

[Brady]

My son is 10 months, and for the past ~6 months will wake up at 6am. He is one of those that no matter what time he goes to bed at, he'll still wake up at 6am!

Anyways. I find that those first couple hours are more "low-key" playing. We'll sit in the living room and I'll lay on the floor with him (and drink coffee ;) ), he'll go for a nap a couple hours later and after that nap I am def. more recharged and ready to really play.

This AM he actually woke up at 7am... it was like heaven!! Although like others have said, then you deal with messed up naps.. so you can never win!

[Toonces]

DD woke up around 6am from about 10 months through 14 months, then she started waking up b/t 7:30-7:45 (much better!). She has the same bed time (between 6:30-7:00pm), but I've noticed now that she's waking up later, she takes a shorter nap during the day.

[cgmom313]

Will be 10mths in a few days and it is anywhere between 6-7a. However she is not very consistent. There are sometime days she is up at 5a and I hope and pray she gets up and goes back to sleep after a bottle. Like others have said it is quiet play time. I give her the soft books and a few toys. I take a pillow and lay on the floor with the hopes she doesnt crawl everywhere to have to go get her. By 7:30a I have to get in the shower for work so I put her in her exersaucer or playpen until my MIL gets there which is about 8a or so.

Sometimes it shocks me on what little sleep I get. I dont even remember the days of 8 hours of sleep. Sigh......

[Pookie]

DS gets up between 7:30 and 9:45. He goes down between 8-9. He sleeps great at night, but the naps are a whole other deal.