Sorry for the long post! I know this has probably been posted so many times but I need advice or success stories please! My 1 yr old DS wakes at 5am most mornings. He has done this since about 6 months old off and on. He’s clearly still tired as is pretty grumpy in the morning but no matter what we try he won’t settle. He usually wakes at 4:15/4:30am and sits up - then I nip in and lie him back flat and I get another 45 mins before he’s up again and can’t be settled. He doesn’t seem hungry. We read until 6am and then he has some milk and then play and breakfast. Occasionally we get a 6:30 start which is a dream. I’m currently pregnant with our second and I’m pretty exhausted. I go to bed at 8:30pm so have no evenings with my husband. He works a lot so can’t be around to help often. The other issue is (my fault as should have initially put him in his cot from day one) - our DS will only nap in the pram on a walk! So I’m doing 20k steps a day which doesn’t help the tiredness but good exercise I suppose. His general routine is
5am wake up + story time and quiet play
6am - milk (tried milk and 5 and then back to bed - didn’t work)
7am breakfast. Blueberries/banana/toast/wheatabix
9-10am nap
10:30 small snack and water
12 lunch
1:30-2:30 nap
3pm snack and water
5pm dinner
6pm bath then milk and small snack like banana.
7pm asleep. Goes down easily.
Should I accept this is just the way it is or does anyone have any suggestions? Does it get any easier?
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1 year old wakes at 5am
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IC28 · 02/04/2021 07:34
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