1 year old now waking at 5.30 as standard....HELP.

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Morning (or is it afternoon yet)

DS is 1 year old and has now taken to waking for a feed at 5:30am and that’s him up for the day.

He shares a room with DD who is nearly 3 and this means she is woken now approx one hour too early every day.

It’s messing with us all as both children are exhausted by 7:30am and get fractious and angry. On weekends we take them a run in the car to chill them out/get an hours nap in but in the week it makes for a tough start to their nursery day.

It may also be worth mentioning that DS is so so close to walking and has suddenly taken to an extra milk feed (cows) at 9:30pm. He is also now chinning 700-800ml of cows milk a day on top of three square meals and snacks (banana, breadsticks, yoghurt).

His sister also did the same thing around this age re milk but the “night” feed and 5:30 waking is doing all of our heads in.

has anyone experienced similar and how did it sort itself out?

We are slightly at our wits end with the whole house now up at 5:30 and shattered to buggery by 8.

Morning ! Also up, since 5:20 ! Dh and I tag team lie in on the weekend, his turn today !
I have done some ironing though ...

I have started Killing Eve, not sure when we'll ever finish it. I watched 20 min of Daredevil last night wow !

My son went through a stage of this and after about two or three months it stopped. In our case I think it coincided with giving more food in the mornings, so instead of Cheerios style cereal we have porridge then a mid morning egg and toast.
My sympathies, mine is now getting up at six to six thirty at aged two and I'm a bit grumpy about it but your post has made me count my blessings.

I think they all go through stages like this unfortunately. My three year old gets up at 7 now but we've had MANY periods of 5am starts. I'm not sure there's much you can do except ride it out.

My 18m old currently gets up at the crack of dawn but is actually still tired and I've noticed if I bring him in bed with us he'll go back to sleep till a more decent hour!

I’m sure they are still tired at 5am. Trying to get them to go back to sleep somehow and reset their body clocks is your best bet. I wouldn’t get up at 5am for the day.

Gro clock. Literally best £20 I've ever spent. Changed our lives.

If your DD has started waking early too, it should definitely work for her. Your DS might still be a bit young but it's worth a try. (My DS was 19 months when we introduced the gro clock and he got it straight away.)

We went from 5-5.30am waking to 6.45am every morning! Even if he wakes before 6.45 he is calm and quiet until "sunrise" when he starts calling for us.

I have been tempted to adjust it to 7am but on work/nursery days I need the extra 15 minutes (he still has a long breastfeed when he wakes up)

Yes! The groclock worked for us. Brilliant invention. I need my sleep so was not prepared to roll with 5.30 wake ups.

Gosh my 18m old wouldn't give a shit about a gro clock

Don't knock it til you've tried it!

Honestly DS was a nightmare sleeper until relatively recently, and I was amazed the gro clock worked so well so quickly

Lucky you - my 14 month old gets up between. 4 and 4:30 every day. For the day. He has slept until 5 less times than the number of fingers I have on one hand. And that felt like a lie in 😁 I think mine is too young for a gro clock but it worked for my 3 year old and she stays in her room until 7.

Not helpful, sorry!

Yes I think mine were older maybe 2.5/ 3 when it worked.

Getting up at 4.30/5 isn’t going to help though. Just reifnforces the body clock to wake at that time. Plus they’ll be exhausted for the day. Setting a time which was acceptable and not getting up before then is what worked for us.

The groclock literally doesn’t work; we have had ours for a year from when DD was 17 months and was up a bit too early for a while directly after the clocks changed Apr 2017.

She just doesn’t “get it” and at 13months DS is just too young.

I am sure they work for some but the impression that I get is that they don’t work for everyone and even after reading the instructions and coaching DD it came to nowt.

Groclocks are a sore point for me can you tell? 😬

I would bring the 1yr old back in with you so he doesn't disturb the 3 yr old for now. Other than that you just need to ride it out.

Gro clocks never worked here. Mine either ignored it, or in the case of DD, figured out how to reprogram it very quickly.

Ok, too young for the groclock but they are great for when they are older.

Agree, maybe bring the one year old to bed with you to avoid disturbing the whole family. I wouldn’t get up for the day though and feed/expose to light. You want to aim to reset the body clock and if you can get them to go back to sleep then there’s more of a chance of this happening. It won’t happen if you get up and do stuff.

It did work this morning with DS! So the good thing is that yes he was up with DD at 5:30 butttt after a turbo milk (that’s getting phased out over the next week) and a burp he went down again 5:50 - 7.

One victory at a time.

Let’s just say DD is a tougher nut to crack. Once she’s up and declared “I want to go downstairs” I think that even trying to get her to sleep in the arms of Hey Duggee himself would give no postive outcome.

Feels like I’m in a big sleep pattern Rubik’s cube right now as am trying to run marginally different approaches with both and will continue to post here to try and aid others.*

*thats bollocks, it’s all to offload anonymously and ease my mind

Fair enough, gro clocks may not work for every child, but it was so miraculous for us that I think it's always worth a try!

Ok so I'm in a world of pain with my 4yo dd's sleep so have some suggestions 🙄 Dd now has night time tokens. Every night time visit costs a token. If she has tokens left in the morning, she can cash them in for a reward (Poundland is your friend - Dd gets a sweetie). Sit down, family meeting, explain the rules. We have drawn up a book of rules, which Dd suggested, drew and glued together. Ours are, stay in bed, no shouting, wait for the sun on your clock. Then make pretty tokens. As many as you need. The first night, we used 22! Once they have the hang, gradually reduce the number of tokens. We are down to 6. The plan is to get down to one or two. I think this is sometimes called the bedtime pass. It's quite a well tested method, written up in science direct.

If the gro clock hasn't got the respect it needs, get a grown up digital clock, cover over the minutes, and tell her she can't get up until it's showing a 6. Make it a big deal that she's old enough for a grown up clock now.

Let’s make it 4:30.

Im.afraid some kids sre just early risers. My 2 year old is up at around half 3 every morning. Tried everything to change it and nothing works.he was up at 2.20 this morning and has been running round humming ever since.

2.20?! That's not early that's night time.

Hahaha i know. So is bloody 3.30! Hes autistic ans seems to struggle with sleep. Lucky me 🙈

My oldest two are just typically early risers. The oldest always woke at 4am-4.30am on the dot - a precise 9 hour sleep stint. He is still the same years later. My middle one used to sleep a bit later but now wakes between 5 and 6. Youngest is a champ sleeper (I'm hoping it stays that way). Groclock never worked for 1 and 2 as they saw me the first time turning it on and instantly saw that that was all they had to do to get up - subsequently had them up for the day with the "sun is up mum!" chant at 3am. Youngest sleeps through and doesn't yell for me only with the groclock so it's a godsend for her.

The oldest two are the same as your DD - once they declare they want to go downstairs, that's it.

Without meaning to cause offence @consuelabananahammock what you have there are nocturnal kids, not early risers. In nobody’s book is a 3am start ok. How do you manage? When do they nap? Is that your day started at 3? Like serving breakfast and stuff?

This morning broke me and I lost it at DD, DH and as it’s his day “at home” with the children he’s already left with them for the day as they need to sleep in the car and they will be nightmares at home so it’s a day out to Portsmouth.

I feel fucking awesome.

I am still trying to stick to one plan for this week, constant switching of tactics will only confuse everyone. But as we have had instant success with DS, DD has suddenly become the worlds lightest sleeper and his babble and us nipping in to check he hadn’t peed his nappy through woke her good and proper at 4:30.

He went back to sleep. This is kind of proving a earlier PPs belief that babies operate a 12hr day.

I should also mention though that DD has for the past two days or so been a tantrumming angry mess, no toddler is a model of genteel behaviour but this has been turned up to 11 and evidently woke my neighbour up this morning.