So here’s the thing: my 14 month old DS wakes at 5:30/5:45am every day - there is no getting him back to sleep, no cuddling in bed, he is just up and wants to get up and play. I’m desperate to get him to sleep later, even just till 6am would be a bit more civilised.
I don’t think it’s the light, because we have a blackout blind and underneath that one of those stick on black out blind to get every single gap. And he’s in the darkest room of the house which does not really get morning light.
I read that he might be getting up early and compensating with a long morning nap. We were previously putting him down at 8:45 and letting him sleep until he naturally woke up, often an hour and 20 minutes. But over the last six weeks we have been really strict with putting him down at 9am and only letting him do 1hr. But this has made no difference to the early starts.
The rest of our routine is:
5:30am wake
6:30am breakfast
9 - 10 nap
12pm lunch
1:30 - 3pm nap (this is hit and miss sometimes he’ll do 40 minutes other days he’ll do 2 hrs)
5pm tea
6:10 bath time
6:30 bottle
6:45 bed - he is often asleep by 7, but it can be by 7:30 if he's taking a while to settle. He then sleeps perfectly (most of the time) until 5:30am. We have noticed that from about 3am, he is a light sleeper and would wake from a creek of floorboard if we went to the loo in the night.
Generally he’s a pretty full on kid - i wouldn't describe him as ‘chilled’ and he was a ticky sleeper to begin with, we sleep trained at 6months which helped enormously.
My best guess is he’s waking because he’s hungry - but he was born in the 91st percentile and he’s now 98th percentile - he has a good dinner and a bottle before bed and often has big belly at that point so I don't see how I could fill him up more. And I don’t want to start a night feed.
We haven’t tried consistently pushing bedtime back, but there have been occasions where he’s gone down late, but its made no difference to him waking at 5:30am. And if we had an unsettled night, this also wouldn’t make any difference.
Really welcome any thoughts!!
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My 1 year old wakes for the day at 5:30am every single day… HELP
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Rosebell100 · 15/07/2020 10:34
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