DS has not long turned 1 and has only recently started sleeping through. However, he now regularly wakes at 5-5:30am but is still clearly tired and will just be grumpy and whiny until he's cuddled and/or breastfed back to sleep for another 45min or so.
He's doing really well at going to sleep in the cot at bedtime and for an afternoon nap, and I think it would be so good for him if he could learn to settle himself back to sleep when he wakes early, instead of us all getting up when none of us are ready to start the day.
I feel like we've tried everything. We've offered water, cows milk, a toy to cuddle. We've tried giving him a quick cuddle and putting him straight back in the cot, we've tried leaving him in the cot but staying in the room to keep him company, we've tried just leaving him to it to see if he eventually runs out of steam. But he just gets more and more worked up until someone comes to get him.
I'd be happy to accept if being an early waker was just his natural routine but he really seems so much happier on the days when he somehow manages to sleep until 6:30/7-ish. On those days he can then go without a morning nap, sleeps well after lunch and is on good form until bedtime at 7:30-8pm.
Any advice? Help!
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CaRouleMaPoule · 26/11/2020 11:45
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