wake the baby or let them sleep?

[RebekahG77]

I rarely wake a sleeping baby; the only exceptions are if I have a newborn that needs to eat or if their extra sleep starts going on so long that it interferes with their next nap/bedtime.

[Ellowyn]

I usually let DD sleep as long as she wants. She has days where she won't take more than a 30min nap and I figure she's probably catching up on sleep.

That and I HATE waking a sleeping baby. Sometimes I have to wake her when I take or pick up my older kids at school. It's sooo painful though!

[twirl]

I've never had to wake DD in the morning, but I have from a nap before if I thought it was going to interfere with bedtime. In that situation, I open the door to her room and engage in a little light activity (cleaning up, folding laundry, etc.) so that she's pretty sure to wake up, but still on her own. She's like me though: she does NOT do well being woken up and needs the transition

[JamieJLD]

Originally Posted by JamieJLD I don't have to wake my DD up in the morning - she always wakes up on her own between 6 and 7 AM and it never affects her naps or bedtime.

I think I jinxed myself by saying this yesterday. This morning my DD slept until 7:30 AM. Her morning nap was all off and she took an early and too-short afternoon nap. Now I am enjoying the crankiest toddler ever known to mankind. She keeps screaming and freaking out about weird things and has fallen down and hurt herself WAY more than normal.

I take it back. I'll start waking her up in the morning too if she sleeps unusually late. I don't want another day like today.