10 month old waking a lot earlier than usual-does it get better???

[NickyKB]

2 weeks ago my LO started waking anywhere between 1-2.5hrs earlier than his normal wake up. He started trying to crawl at the same time and had a tooth coming through (now here). I've tried feeding him, cuddling, rocking, ignoring, trying to settle on me and in cot, calpol, teething gel, small light on, musical seahorse he has at bedtime.... none of it is making any difference he's just convinced he's awake.....

Has this happened to anyone else and it gone back to normal??? It's just throwing him out for the rest of the day as he's struggling to get to his normal nap time and the day I let him have an extra nap he wouldn't go down at bedtime..... i'm kinda hoping it's just him trying to learn to crawl but please does anyone have any experience who can give me some reassurance that it's just a phase

Thanks

 

[capegirl7]

My dd is almost 11 months and the past two weeks has gotten up at least an hour earlier than usual! Stalking for advice!

 

[robinator]

For us, it got worse before it got better. Lane was a 0445 waker until about 5 months, when she began sleeping until 0530-ish. Around 10 months (with an exception here and there), she'd be up by 0515, then 0500, then 0445 (by 10.5 months, it happened quickly). Two and a half weeks ago she started waking at 0430, and did so for the following two weeks. Then, 4 mornings ago, without notice, she started sleeping until 0630.

DaisyBee helped me a lot with sleep/nap advice, and it turned out my LO was getting too much sleep while napping, so she didn't need as much at night. However, by the time I figured this out and started to take steps to change it, her body was programmed to waking so early, so it took about 5 (total) weeks for the changes to take effect.

Hopefully yours doesn't take as long!!!

 

[Nat0619]

Something similar happening here too & Ciara is nearly 10 months. Just been happening the past week or so. She is actually napping a bit less too though so is getting less sleep overall! She has been crawling and pulling to stand for about a month & half so it's not that with her. We do think her two top teeth are close though x

 

[erikab922]

We are in the middle of the same thing, I've come up with two possible reasons in our case. One, it's getting light earlier. Two, they have a Wonder Week at 46 weeks and the weeks preceding it can make them into grumpy little baby a-holes. Not very scientific but it's the best I can come up with!

 

[NickyKB]

Cape girl/Erikab - it really might be an age thing my LO was born 1 day before capegirls. I had been looking at the possibility of wonder weeks - I'd never particularly noticed him following the pattern before although I often look at the chart to see if that might fit (it seems to me that more of the chart is grey for stormy so there's a pretty good chance that if he's fussy it'll be somewhere in a wonder week just from the numbers)

Nat - thanks I've been wondering about teeth too as although his last incisor has made it through there's still a fair bit of hand chewing and drooling can't feel any molars particularly close to the surface but i'm wondering if they might be on the move. Don't really know what i'm feeling for though with molars is they'll be as obviously a sharp ridge as the others were and i'm so slow with it that usually my finger has been trapped in a vice of razor sharp incisors before i've got a good feel!

Robinator - thanks for the hope - I remember reading some of your posts when Lane was getting up earlier and because of this I looked a right plonker on the way back from baby group this morning frantically clapping, whistling and in the ended making a sound like a siren to stop william falling asleep in the back... Hope it works for us too

 

[NickyKB]

Just to put a face to the boy - william yesterday who normally wants complete darkness or movement to fall asleep. He totally flaked out as i was getting dressed after my shower when i put him down on our bed for a couple of seconds (he's directly under the light here). This was 4 hours after he'd got up though which per his old waking time would be his nap time....