Our DS was 2 in January and he has always been an early riser but it’s just getting earlier and earlier.
He is in his own bed and at anytime from between 4:30-5:30am he just pops out of bed, runs to and opens his bedroom room door and stands at the stair gate. Sometimes he cries, sometimes he just plays silently with his trucks but he’ll start getting annoyed at around 5:50 and will yell to come out.
His room is pitch black so I am not sure what wakes him. Over the past 3 months we have:
Pushed back bedtime (it was 6:30pm now 7:30pm)
Cut down nap time (from 1.5hrs to 1-1.15hrs)
Tried leaving him in his room until 6am.
This started to work and he once slept until 6:40am for three days in a row but then he reverted back to form.
We have started using a gro clock these past two weeks (I put this on the landing so he can see it when he opens the door otherwise he just fiddles with it and chucks it about in his room). He doesn’t seem to get it. Or maybe he does and just doesn’t care??
He goes to bed at 7:30pm and is really good at falling asleep on his own as he is absolutely shattered by then. He naps for around 1-1.15hrs. We cut the nap time down from 1.30 and have been doing this for 2 months but it hasn’t helped.
This morning was the worst morning in a while as he got up at 4:30am. I left him in his room but at around 5:50am he climbed over his extra tall gate and I found him on his way downstairs to get more trucks (he already has some in his room). I told him it was too early and took him back to his room and sat with him until the sun came up on the gro clock (it’s set for 6am at the moment).
I go to bed early but these early mornings are killing me (currently 30 weeks pregnant) and also having a detrimental impact on DS as he is usually shattered by about 10/10:30am and doesn’t enjoy anything during the day and wakes crying from his nap.
We recently started an outdoor toddler group which starts at 10am on Sunday and he’s so overtired and emotional that he wants to go home. His eyes are red with dark circles. He is also so much smaller than other kids his age and I’m convinced it’s due to lack of sleep.
I’m worried about how DH and I will cope once baby arrives. We take turns with wake ups but we are in a small house and cant get any rest when he wakes up crying as he is so loud. If DH takes DS downstairs, DS just runs back up to find me.
If anyone has any tips/magic tricks on how I can persuade DS just to sleep in a bit longer I would be most grateful.
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Bathmatt · 14/04/2021 08:25
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