How to change sleep schedule?

I am heading back to work one week from Monday and having a mini-breakdown about it. Right now Cameron is sleeping eight hours at night, from 8pm to 4am, takes a bottle, then she gets up again around 7am. I am trying to figure out how to get her to wake up by 6am and have a bottle so I can get her ready for daycare and get to my train on time. I am going to try waking her up at 6am starting Monday, but will this throw off her whole schedule? Have any of you found a way to adjust their sleeping times? I don['t think keeping her up till 10 will work though - then she only sleeps till 2:30am. Please help!! I already feel bad about leaving her..

Re: How to change sleep schedule?

How old is Cameron? Unfortunately, I don't know any magical way to make this happen. However, once my twins reached 3.5 or 4 months, they started to sleep all night.

Re: How to change sleep schedule?

This is almost exactly the schedule that Jake is on. And I am going back to work in a few weeks also. But this is what I've been doing. I don't give him a bottle at 4am. I tried check and console for about a week after he started sleeping the full 8 hrs and he always went right back to sleep until 6:30 - 7pm.

But that just encouraged him to keep waking. Then we just starting letting him CIO rather than going in there. Well, after just one night of that the next night he only fussed for about 10 mins and went right back to sleep til 6:30. Then last night (the 3rd night) we actually had to WAKE him for his bottle at 7am. We gave him his bottle a little earlier (around 7:30ish)put him to bed a little earlier and that seemed to work magic!

I would suggest putting him to bed about 20 - 30 mins EARLIER tonight and seeing how he does. Believe it or not, it may make him sleep longer. You don't even have to try CIO if you don't want to. Just try putting him to bed earlier and see if he sleeps longer.