EMW
Also called emw, EMWs, early morning waking, early morning wake, early morning wakes
EMW stands for early morning waking, or early morning wake, when a baby starts the day earlier than the family wants and won't go back to sleep. Parents write it as a noun, as in the EMW is getting us down, and as a description, as in a baby who has been EMW for months.
How it's said
My 10.5-month-old has been EMW ever since he started to sleep through the night at 7 months.
Has anyone out there found a solution to EMW? (17m waking at 5am, urghhhh!)
Not being able to have any break, not even a single morning, from the EMW is seriously getting us down.
Who says it
Where it came from
Early morning waking is the full phrase that baby sleep consultants and sleep brands use, and what counts as early depends on the child's age and the shape of the family's day. Parents on sleep boards cut it to EMW, and threads were asking for a solution to EMW by 2013.