My little girl is still waking up for at 6am.....?

Question

My daughter is turning one on wednesday the 16th. we put her to bed at 8pm because she is really cranky by then. Everyone tells me she should not be waking up at this age but after i give her the sippy cup she goes right back to bed for about 1 1/2 hours more.... how do i get her out of this habit?? or is this okay to give her a sippy cup at 6am?

Answer 1

Nothing wrong with some milk in the morning and theres nothing wrong with her going back to sleep if she is still tired. 15 hours of sleep at that age is normal (including naps and bedtime.) But if you are only giving her the milk for her to go back to sleep, then you have to start getting used to getting up at 6am. If you have already tried just staying up and she just got grouchy, then what you are doing is fine.

Answer 2

lol, if she goes to bed at 8 p.m. and sleeps all night, then at 6 a.m. she should be ready to be up for the day (except for maybe a nap in afternoon)

Answer 3

Both of my children wake up at 6am. My eldest is 3½ and my baby is 14 months. They go to sleep at 7pm. I have never heard that children shouldn't be waking at a certain age, they are all different and it depends on what time they go to bed. As for getting them out of the habit, I don't think you can. My baby is awake for three or so hours then goes back to bed for his only nap of the day, yet my eldest would want to go to sleep after about an hour of waking up. Thank yourself lucky that she goes back to sleep after milk (I am assuming you give her milk in a sippy?) - I would be very happy if my baby went back to sleep for another 1½ hours!

Answer 4

i come from a mexican family the way they did it is to tire the kid all day play wit them till like 9 make sure there tired. then shower them and make them go to sleep. wont wake up til 8 or 9 am

Answer 5

why not? she's been asleep for 10 hours...i think that's plently long to go without eating. I don't even go that long with out eating lol cause I only get 8 hours of sleep. We also put my daughter down at 8 and she always wakes up around 6, and I always feed her. She also goes right back to bed for about an hour or two and her doc said that's absolutely fine. As long as she's not waking up in the middle of the night to eat. (she's 10 months by the way)

Answer 6

That's 10 hours of sleep.  A couple of my children at about a year of age would wake up at about 10 hours to nurse and then go back to bed for another hour or two.  This sounds perfectly normal to me.

Answer 7

Is her room dark enough?  I have foil up at my daughter's window and it blacks the room out completely.  She's 2 years old, goes to bed at 7.30pm and doesn't wake until 8am, and she has an hour nap at least through the day.

I wouldn't bother with a black out blind though, because they let light in at the side.  Also, no, I wouldn't say the sippy cup is a good idea, she's going to wake up waiting for it once you've got her into the habit.  

I would try the 'foil at the window' route first, and if she's still waking then maybe you're just unlucky and she doesn't need that much sleep.  I have a friend who's boys don't sleep anywhere near as much as my daughter.

Good luck!

Answer 8

6 am is morning get up for the day with her and quit putting her back to bed.

Answer 9

1. Make sure you're not giving her any juice before bed. Juice has tons of sugar and give her a bad nights' sleep.

2. Try to cut her naptimes back. Wake her 10-15 minutes before she usually wakes up until she's only napping 2x per day, about an hour each.

3. Consider waking up and beginning your day at 6:00. Make your coffee. Eat breakfast, take baby for walk, then nap when she does.

I wish I could offer more advice...good luck!

♣ missa

Answer 10

My daughter use to do the same thing, with her once she got to the really cranky point when I would normally put her to bed, I would bathe her, which would keep her awake for another 1/2 hr atleast it then helped her sleep later in the morning.

Answer 11

Your dentist would probably tell you that the sippy cup is a very, very NOT good thing.

Don't listen to "everybody".  Ask a medical professional, if you think it's really important. But don't let well-meaning meddlers try to tell you how to do things.  You'll only run yourself ragged trying to please them all.

In the middle of the summer, it gets dark later and gets light earlier. And our bodies respond to that.

I don't know anything about your situation, but I'd like to suggest that you start getting up early with her. An early summer morning can be so fresh, almost innocent ....

Yes, this will probably mean that she will need an afternoon nap, and you'll be ready to go to bed earlier.  There are many reasons why that's a good thing.

Answer 12

breast feed her.

Answer 13

no it is not ok ecspecially if it is juice in the sippy cup.  the problem is you started this habit and now she expects it.  the only way to break her of this habit is to stop.  It wil be hard but when she wakes up, if all you do is tell her to go back to sleep and not give her anything, within two weeks your problem will be gone