Here’s a technique that can help you shift your baby’s wake-up time.  Have you heard of “wake to sleep”?
Here’s a technique that can help you shift your baby’s wake-up time.  Have you heard of “wake to sleep”?  It’s a technique coined by the Baby Whisperer, Tracy Hogg.
If your baby is continually waking up at 5 am, she has developed a habitual wake-up, so she may be waking up at this time even if she’s still tired, out of habit rather than hunger, or perhaps after a bout of teething.
Generally, if your baby wakes up at the same time every night then it is a habit.  For example, 3:50 am, 4:00 am, 4:10 am, are all around the same time. Or your baby might wake up at exactly 3:30 am every night.  This is a sign of habit.  If the time shifts around then it's more likely to be hunger.
The nighttime sleep cycles are about 3 hours in length.  They cycle through one 3 hour cycle, surface, and then go down into another 3-hour sleep cycle.  At a habitual 3 am wake up they are ‘surfacing', but their body is used to waking up.  The idea with the “wake to sleep” technique is to manipulate when they “surface” so you can get them into another sleep cycle.  I use 3 am as an example but it could be the 5 am wake up for the day!

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