Blackout blind made zero difference - what am I missing?
Marta
10 mesi fa
Spent a fortune on a proper blackout blind because everyone swears by them, and my 8 month old's early waking (4:50am, every day) hasn't budged. The room IS dark now, like properly pitch black.
Is early waking not actually about light? What else causes the 5am party? I'm dying over here, that's not a wake-up that's the middle of the night.
Emma X.
10 mesi fa
Early waking is the final boss and light is only one piece. For us it was bedtime being too late causing overtiredness, plus the first nap being too early which made the night 'feel' long enough by 5am. We pushed the wake window and it shifted.
Olga
10 mesi fa
Check for light LEAKS, even a thin strip at the edge of the blind can do it at dawn. We taped blackout fabric around the whole frame. But also, sometimes it's just hunger or a too-early bedtime, not light at all.
Sakura J.
10 mesi fa
The 4:50 wake is so often about the body clock thinking the day starts then. We treated everything before 6 as night, no lights, no talking, boring as possible, and over a couple weeks it drifted later.
Daniel
10 mesi fa
Is she cold in the early hours? The room temp drops before dawn and that woke ours at almost exactly 5. A warmer tog sack fixed what the blackout blind couldn't.
Noah N.
10 mesi fa
UPDATE from OP: it was a combination. There was a light leak at the top of the blind AND her bedtime was too late. Fixed both, treated the 5am as night-time, and we're now getting to 6:15. Not perfect but I'll take it!