Good morning all.
I will try and keep this short partly because I am so knackered I don’t have the energy to waffle on!
DS is almost 11 months. Since he turned 10
Months (and started crawling) he has started waking at 5am (sometimes 4:30!) every morning.
Things we have tried:
- Later bedtime / earlier bedtime
- Treating it as a night wake (so feed and nappy change if nappy is super full)
- rocking
- leaving him to see if he will go back to sleep himself (if he isn’t crying which is usually the case)
- white noise on all night
His routine is:
Wake at 5/5:30
7oz milk at 6am
Breakfast at 7:30
Nap 1 at 9-10 (woken by me after an hour)
Lunch at 12
7oz milk at 1pm (he is starting to drop this feed)
Nap 2 at 1:30/2 - 3:30/4 (I usually wake if still asleep come 4pm)
Dinner at 4:45
8oz milk and bed for 7/7:30
He will then sleep through until 5/5:30. Sometimes
He is up for the day at 4:30 but I honestly don’t know why. His routine does not change in the day. He could probably go down for a nap earlier in the morning but I’ve read that is counter productive when trying to combat early waking, so I drag him out til 9.
I honestly don’t know what to do and I am sooo tired. Even when I go back to work I won’t need to get up til 6am at the earliest. And I only like to me awake for one 5’o’clock in a 24 hour period
I know I don’t have it as bad as some and I feel bad for moaning...
Just wondering if anyone has any tips what worked for them?
Just to add that before he turned 10 months he was sleeping 2.5-3 hours in the day and then 11 hours at night.
Is he having too much day time sleep and should I cap the morning nap to 30/45 mins?
Thanks in advance x