#WAKE UP TIME 6 A.M. WINDOWS#
If you have to leave the windows open, I sympathize with you. Now, I actually have had a couple of questions, of course, since it’s summertime, asking, but how am I supposed to make the room dark? If you have to have the windows open, or perhaps you have a window unit, you guys can definitely still use the EZ Blackout covers. If sunshine is coming in your child’s room, even if it’s the tiniest little crack, guess what? It’s going to trigger through their closed eyelids, to their brain, that it’s time to wake up, and we’ve got to make sure the room is dark.Īll of these other strategies will be for not if there is sunshine coming in your child’s room. What I want to make sure of is that we don’t have sunshine coming into your child’s room, or even blue or white light for that matter.
I would prefer a dim salt lamp or the hatch clock to be on red. I’ve talked about in previous podcasts that yes, toddlers can have night lights.
I also want to evaluate any night lights. Now, if you’re sitting there and you can’t even see your hand in front of your face, brilliant. Go into their room, sit down, close the door, close the blinds and curtains, and just let your eyes acclimate, and if you can see objects around you, if you can very clearly see the bed, objects hanging on the wall, you can even read words on the wall or artwork, you need to make the room darker. Even I would like to do this to my own room. I don’t care if they’re newborn, baby, toddler, preschooler, whatever.
Well after a few days on the new schedule, the girls were starting to wake up early! It was 6:15 am, and they were talking and singing, putting on their broadway shows, I’m like what the heck is going on? I go up there and guess what, ya’ll? Their EZ Blackout covers had kind of come off of the window and their room had a huge beam of sunlight coming in through it! So of course, they woke up early! We had been on a 7 to 7 schedule, so we pushed it 30-minutes later. It is currently mid-June, and a few weeks ago I shared how we are putting our daughters to sleep at 7:30 pm and they’re sleeping 7:30 pm to 7:30 am. Here’s the checklist I go through with my families: Your child has always woken up early, and what can we do about this?! Your child falls asleep independently, but they’re waking up early… You just sleep trained your child and they’re waking up early, and we need to dig a little bit deeper into this. So, you may be listening to this podcast because… They are waking up early and now they’re fully convinced that 9.5 or 10 hours of sleep is great! Perhaps two or three weeks ago you would have absolutely said, “Yes, Becca, I want 9 hours of sleep, let’s get that!” Now, we’re trying to get more. It just is, because your child will get to the point where their body has essentially evened out. Let’s get into early morning wakings for your baby! First of all, why is this happening? Now, I share in all of our baby and toddler programs that early morning wakes are going to happen when you’re sleep training. This is a transcript of Podcast episode 69 available here or iTunes/Spotify/Google Play
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