So baby is waking at 6am pretty consistently. And as far as the internet is concerned, that is normal! I've tried putting her to bed later, earlier, dream feed, no luck. I think it is what it is and I am SOL, but I was just wondering if any of you had successfully gotten your babe to sleep in later after consistently waking in the 6am hour? I'm not asking for much, going past 7am would be nice, haha!
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My babe wakes up early too usually 615/630
When he wakes up I give him toys and he plays for almost 30 min by himself

@Vanessa she will actually sit in her crib in the dark and talk to herself for at least 20-30 minutes, haha. She's super happy about it!

I have a crib attatched to my bed and I just let her sit and play with toys for 30 minutes and then if she gets fussy I’ll nurse her and then she’ll play again. Sometimes I’ll put on ms rachel and she’ll keep her occupied for 20 minutes but that’s the only time she watches any screens. Emergencies only😂 this way I spend an extra hour in bed trying to wake up or sleeping for an extra 30 minutes

The order of nap length can also help. I read somewhere that if the first nap is the shortest then it slowly trains baby to not wake up so early because they need more night time sleep to get thru to their second and longest nap

If the 3rd nap is short I’ve noticed personally that it makes baby overtired and not sleep as well during the night. Whenever she wakes up frequently during the night from being over tired she wakes up earlier because she didn’t get that long restful sleep in the beginning of the night

So basically what her naps have looked like on those good days were 40 minutes 1.5-2 hours and then 40 minutes. Try to keep her up for at least 1.75 hours in the first wake window so she’s not going to continue the earlier wake up. This helps not confirm that waking up early is normal for her

I, too, have tried everything. My boy wakes up around 6am no matter what. 6:30 if I'm lucky, 5:30 if I'm not 🙃

My 6 month old boy does the same thing. I just change him, feed him, if he wants to play a little, I gently play with him, I tuck him back in when he is quiet and calm and he goes right back to sleep.
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