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Parenting · by Mateo Cruz · 2026-09-09

what actually helped with 4am wakeups

Asking for my fried brain and everyone else awake before dawn for no noble reason.

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Kanya Srisai · 17 likes

Feeding tweak helped a little, but mostly time. Hate typing that.

Aarav Sharma · 16 likes

Later bedtime made ours worse. Tiny overtired man became an alarm clock.

Imogen Clarke · 7 likes

We chased wake windows like detectives and the blackout curtains did more than all of it combined.

Rafael Almeida · 2 likes

Nothing mattered, then at 11 months it just...stopped. I am sorry.

Youssef Mahmoud · 0 likes

For us it was darker room + absurdly consistent bedtime. I hated that it worked because I wanted a magic gadget.