Early morning pee/poo and getting up too soon

[mamatobe08]

My son has slept 12 hours a night since he was 12 weeks old. He sometimes will only sleep 10 hours and will be ok, but usually he needs 12 hours to be his happy normal self during the day.

So, lately, he has been waking up after 8 or 9 hours of sleep, and I put him on the potty and he will pee and sometimes poo. I go to put him back to bed(we don't cosleep) and he SCREAMS. He won't go back to sleep, but I know that if we get up, he'll be absolutely miserable all day long. Some days I will get him up and we'll eat breakfast and then I put him back down for a nap, but then his whole day's schedule is messed up.

Do you think I should try waking him up an hour earlier to go pee? Maybe with that extra hour of less sleep, he will realize he is tired and needs to go back to sleep? I'm lost on what to do, but I can't keep having a grouchy baby every couple days...

[sapphire_chan]

It's a good thought. Another thing that might work is try to see if you can nurse him and hold him over something instead of sitting him on the potty.

[mamatobe08]

Originally Posted by sapphire_chan

It's a good thought. Another thing that might work is try to see if you can nurse him and hold him over something instead of sitting him on the potty.

We don't nurse. I have some medical issues that led to my body not producing enough milk no matter WHAT we tried. He's too awake that even giving him a sippy with milk in it won't calm him down enough to go back to sleep. I wish he could understand when I say "It's too early, go back to bed!"

[sgmom]

What worked for us when my daughter was younger was to hold the potty between my legs and straddle her over it (chest to chest, her head on my shoulder, legs at my side). She'd never fully wake up, but she'd wake up enough to pee.

Originally Posted by mamatobe08

We don't nurse. I have some medical issues that led to my body not producing enough milk no matter WHAT we tried.

Completely off topic, I had the same problem (I thought I tried EVERYTHING) and what worked for me was a combination of brewers yeast, and some sort of herbal spray under my tongue 3x/day. I don't know the name of the spray, but I can tell you what's in it if you're interested.

[sapphire_chan]

about nursing.

With Lina, she now will demand a "cup" meaning a drink of water and that lets me know she has to pee, but she won't actually relax until she's drinking.

But it was more to keep him asleep, giving a milk feed isn't a necessary part. If he's not demanding a milk feed when you take him to go pee, then just cradling him in your arms as you offer the potty might help versus sitting him on a potty. As a way to avoid the post-pee crying and awaking.

[Plummeting]

You could try waking him up earlier, but honestly, he's already been on the same schedule for 9 months. That's a very long time for a baby of your son's age! It's probably just time for his sleep schedule to change, and when babies go through a time where they're developing new sleep routines, they're always a little crabby at first. Not all 13-month-olds need 12 hours of sleep at night, no matter what the baby books say.

If peeing him earlier works, then great. If it doesn't, then you're going to have to accept that he's much older now than he was at 12 weeks and he's coming up with his own new routine.