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

[PaulHollywoodsSexGut]

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.

No offence taken. My 4 and 6 year old are up at half 5
They have milk when they get up and breakfast is at half 6. I dont manage particularly well if im honest. Running on about 4 hours a night at the minute. And many coffees. Hoping its a phase.

I would move the baby back into your room for a while and let the 3 yr old sleep.

I think I’m gonna have to: will give it the rest of the week but if it continues we are gonna have to deconstruct a wardrobe and rearrange the whole room. Fuckkkkk

Children are evil robbers of sleep. I'm so tired my eyes might fall out.

haypanky feel your pain. Im dizzy through lack of sleep at the minute. Pesky sleep thieves

2/3am is not an early riser. You are basically letting your kid get up in the middle of the night.

Also, you are the adults here. If your child demands to go downstairs at 4am you don’t have to let them. Make it boring and maybe they won’t be so keen to get up at 4am.

Hardly letting him. Hes a 2 year old who has severe autism and the developmental age of a 12month old... dont think hes doing it to be a dick is he.

I’m sure he’s not and it sounds a struggle. Hope you can get it sorted as I guess being insanely tired doesn’t help him either.

My comments were more for those who have accepted 4am as a wake up time. Getting up for the day, putting lights on, having breakfast etc will all reinforce that wake up time. It’s unhewkthy for he whole family. That’s the same as putting your child to bed at midnight and then expecting them not to be tired. It’s hard work but it’s our job as parents to ensure they get enough sleep. Special needs aside.

My comments were more for those who have accepted 4am as a wake up time

I just couldn’t function. That’s why I’ve started this thread!

Exactly PaulHollywoodsSexGut I wouldn’t be able to cope with 5.30am either. We would not, in any circumstances be getting up for the day at 4am! I wouldn’t be able to function and neither would the kids.

I dont function to be fair. Its frigging hard. If i could help him sleep longer i would. Daft as it sounds in your case i think more sleep during the day is needed. Helps loads when it comes to bedtime . Did with my other two. Maybe even an earlier bed time. My eldest two go to bed at 6pm and they are 4 and 6 . They dont get up til around 5.30. When bedtime was 7.30 they would get up earlier. Nuts isnt it

My 2.8 year old woke at 5.30am from the age of 6 months right until he was 2.5.

We did literally everything. We NEVER got him up at 5.30. We tried blackout blinds. We tried a later bedtime. We tried an earlier bedtime. We tried no naps in the day. We tried more naps in the day. None of it made a blind bit of difference.

In the last couple of months he's started waking at 6.30. Nothing different, he's just adjusted his body clock. I honestly, really and truly think that some kids are early risers and there's bugger all you can do about it except go to bed earlier. You do adjust - or I did, anyway, but then I have always been more of a lark than an owl.

I just had to ride it out I've probably had the last 6-7 months of 5 AM to 5:30 wake ups it was hell on his second birthday he slept until 7:20 the longest he'd ever slept in his life and now he's waking up usually 630 some days we get closer to 7. He's never been a great sleeper Unlike his brother who was an angel so it was such a shock to the system luckily they don't share a room and the six-year-old remains oblivious to my early morning starts. Reducing his nap time to an hour and a half and him moving to a different room at nursery at 3 seem to have done the business here

You can tell you have Stockholm syndrome if you are woken at 5:20am and class it as a victory.

When I was telling DDs nursery nurse about the sleep issues she asked about what she’s been having for her tea at night. When I said “it’s usually beans in some form” I was informed that the Turkish army fill their soldiers full of beans before they send them out to fight.

Even reading the phrase “full of beans” is giving me a lightbulb moment here 🙈

DD started the day at 4:15am today. I spent until 5:50 trying to get her back to sleep. How has it got to this!? I'm in absolute despair and can't see the way out now.

I had a lie in this morning. Youngest was up at 4...🙈

My dd (adult) and ds1 (12) have always gotten up at about 5am every morning. My ds2 (9) gets up about 6-7 am (unless ds1 wakes him up earlier mucking about).

Sorry. Some dcs just wake up early, and there's not a lot you can do about it.

Can he go to a childminder instead? DD would never have napped in the day at nursery but our heroic childminder used to walk her in the pram and she got proper sleep.

I changed ds (18mths) from nursery to a childminder, because he wouldn't nap at nursery. He naps 1.5hrs at the childminders, and that plus getting a bit older and dropping to just one nap means he usually sleeps through now. If he has a rubbish nap or goes to bed too late, he tends to wake up early. With him, there's a definite correlation. If it goes wrong and he's up early, sometimes he'll go back off of I bung him milk at 5am, sometimes he won't.

Bring him into bed with you, he'll settle down if he's being cuddled.