Toddler Moms...How can I get this kid to sleep in later.

She is up at 6:30 and it is really messing me up in the morning. I leave at 7am and it is easier on my dad if she is still when I go. How can I get her to snooze longer? Any tips.....put her to bed earlier, later?

Message edited 4/9/2008 7:48:15 PM.

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I know everyone says sleep begets sleep, but the later I put dd to bed the later she sleeps. Maybe not right away but after a week or so she adjusts and sleeps later.

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I wish I knew. I've tried keeping Ryan up later, but that doesn't usually work. He goes down between 7-8 and wakes up between 6:30-7:00.

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Antonio started doing this since I went back to work...I guess it has to do with the anxiety of knowing I'm leaving.

What has helped for us
-i put the fan on his room so he does not hear us getting ready

-even if he is awake I do not go in to see him...sometimes dh goes in and tells his "eveyone is still sleeping"

i can't imagine what would happen if he watched me get ready and leave...as soon as we leave my mo
m goes in to get him


I really believe it has to do with the seperation anxiety...he used to sleep until 10

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I would kill for her to sleep until 6:30! Lately she has been getting up around 6 or so but some days she is up at 5 or 5:30 and it's plain old brutal!

I wish I had an answer, I tried doing later bedtime but it never worked so I just stick to her regular time and pray that she starts sleeping later eventually...

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As Ava has gotten older, I've found that putting her to bed later is what has her sleeping in. It used to be that I needed to put her down earlier to get her to sleep later, but not anymore. Try it and see what happens!

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When you find out let me know because that's one thing I have yet to be able to get him to do!

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does the morning sunlight dome into the room? we just got blackout curtains to help DD nap better during the day. Also, put DC down later, as others suggested.

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I use old school pull down shades and insulated thermal curtains to keep the room dark. We also leave a fan on in her room to block out outside noise.

Maybe she hears you getting ready??

I know it's hard, Ava still wakes up anytime between 5:30- 7:00 a.m.

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DD goes to bed between 10 and 11 pm and gets up anywhere between 9 and 11 am. She's been like that since she was born, she's like a college student; up late, sleep late. That's why we call her Party Hardy!

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We're goign through the same thing with Ellie. She used to sleep til 7:30 or 8:30 and now she's up early all the time but she still goes to bed by 8. It's always something a tooth a cold etc. or maybe it has something to do with knowing I'm going to work. I don't know and I don't know how to fix it. We can't really put her to bed later. DH and I are exhausted by the end of the day. I can't imagine her being up an extra 2 hours with us would help.

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When you find out, call me. Noah used to sleep until 730/8 during the week, but since he is in his big boy bed, he is up at 6.30 like clockwork everyday!

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Nikolas has an internal alarm clock that goes off at 6:30 ON THE DOT..
Doesnt matter if he goes to sleep 7pm or 10pm, he is ALWAYS up at 6:30am

His normal bedtime is actually 7:30pm, it's been like that forever. We have played around with putting him down earlier or later but it makes no diff. So unless we're out, I don't keep him up later. He's in his crib by 7:30 or even earlier (at the worst he'll just roll around, listen to his music and play in there for a bit without fuss then drift off to sleep). He might as well try to get to sleep as early as possible since he'll be up at 6:30 without fail anyhow

I was hoping it would get better, but based on this thread with kids older than Niko.. I guess not (I swear on the ODD and VERY RARE occassions he'll sleep until 7 or 730am, I feel like I'm SLEEPING IN )

Message edited 4/10/2008 9:35:06 AM.

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Oh no....so it seems there is not much I can do to change this

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Wish I knew the answer to that one! DD goes to bed at all different times lately- from 7:30 to 8:30 pm and still wakes up at 6:30 every morning. Even this morning on NY time when she went to bed at 10pm(LA time) she was up with the sun.