To leave baby crying if…

10 minutes would be too long for me.

Any resettle attempts after 5am (including getting into bed with them) are generally less likely to work and if they don't then we get up. Thankfully my toddler normally wakes around 7am, but we have gone through phases of earlier wakes.

At this age and upon waking early, I wish mine would have happily come into my bed and had a snooze. All of mine would’ve been wriggling, on and off the bed, getting themselves caught in the door / radiator / whatever innocuous object was to hand, wailing, basically raring to go!

Ignoring for two hours is cruel and a lot of babies and toddlers can do periods of waking early
some good suggestions above
I used to get up with mine give them a cup of milk downstairs and put tv on low and then snooze on the sofa! We had periods of 5am starts for a while at times around the 19-24 months stage

Why do you need to re-settle at 7? Toddlers get up at that time

My son is a 7am waker and always has been. I would have left him too after checking he was ok if he tried to get up at 5am 😵‍💫

Could it have been a night terror? Or was your child actually awake? My son gets night terrors and nothing will wake him when he's crying. He doesn't even register that my husband and I are there and he's still fully asleep. Very scary when it first happened but we read that the only thing you can do is leave him to it until it passes 🙁

Op don't feel guilty, it was 2 hours before they normally get up and after 10 mins they fell back to sleep.
I never let my children cry it out but even I think what you did was ok.

Mine would have climbed out of their cot, and over any gates, by that age and come to find me. I'd have scooped them into my bed and gone back to sleep cuddling them.

Don't feel bad OP, being left to grizzle won't harm them and they almost certainly won't remember when they wake up later.

And, definitely leave them to sleep now!

This.

At that age, if I was keen they get more sleep, I’d go into their room and lie next to them to see if that helped. If not, it’s time to start the day tbh. My 3 yr old is regularly up before 6am, I try to compensate by going to bed before 10 when possible so I get enough sleep!

No, don’t feel terrible. If they’ve gone back to sleep they obviously were still tired x

My toddler sometimes wakes at 5:20. When she does, I won’t rush to her because she often grumbles for a minute or two then goes back to sleep for half a hour whereas if I go in, she’ll snap fully awake.

If it continues or escalates, I’ll go get her. I wouldn’t leave her if it’s clear she’s awake for the day. (Edit: this is not because I’m a saint, it’s because it’s pointless…)

I’m not one of those people who is going to scold you for letting a nearly two year old cry for longer than a couple of seconds (my 19 month old sobbed yesterday because I wouldn’t let her try to carry a tote bag that was larger than her outside), but in your situation I’d probably just accept they are up for the day! 7am is quite late for a toddler, sadly.

I mean I'm hungry for breakfast at 7am so I imagine a 1 year old will be

Yes kids of that age wake early. 5.30/6 was very normal. We used to bring them into our bed for about half an hour and see if they’d go back to sleep and then take turns going downstairs with them to crank up CBeebies!

Do not wake them now. What time do they go to bed? Most toddlers go through a phased of getting up for the day at 5am.

You left them to cry for 10 minutes, not 2 hours and then were clearly tired as they went back to sleep.
Don't beat yourself up, it's honestly not going to affect your baby to be left for a bit. You checked, they were fine and after 10 minutes slept.
I really wouldn't worry about it.

I would just bring them into your bed until 7am. I do this with my LO, sometimes she goes back to sleep, sometimes she brings a toy and lays quietly having a cuddle with me and other times we play and chat until we’re ready to get up properly.

We get up early on weekdays so on weekends I like to leave getting up until 7am at the earliest but I have lots of friends who just get up at whatever time their LOs wake up (sometimes around 5/6am)!

Why on earth would you wake them? I'd say sorry when they wake but that's about it. And not do it again.

Perhaps the OP is running around with other young children and has to leave 21minrh old in the safest place.

Decades ago now but if I was helping 3 and 5 yr old to wash dress and get ready for school/nursery near place for little one was in her cot. No one needs therapy for being left to whinge for ten minutes !

Miraculously all children still visit and speak to me and their dad.

Ok so if you'd said my toddler woke at 5am and wouldn't settle I would have said bring them into your bed and see if they go back to sleep.

No I wouldn’t do this. I can’t ignore my DD crying and feel compelled to comfort her. Could never leave her in distress like this.

You get them up?

7am is a very late start for the average toddler.

At that age In our family any time auger about 5.30 they were ready to get up for the day. Exhausting but true.

If it's before 6.30am they come into my bed and read a book or we chat but after 6.30 I'd get up with them. No way would I leave my baby or toddlers crying like this.

At the point you get them up for the day. Or get them and bring them in with you for half an hour.