Hi, really needing some advice and to know if anyone else is in the same boat. My DS is 16 months old and for the past couple of months wakes between 5 and 5.30am every day. He has blackout blinds and our house is quiet. He goes to bed at around 7.15 - 7.30 every night. He is fantastic at going to bed, has around 8oz milk before he goes down and goes down awake and settles himself down. When he wakes around 5 he is almost half asleep and really violently kicks the sides of his cot until he wakes himself up. I have tried just going in and tucking his legs back in, and leaving straight away. This sometimes calms him for 10 mins but it starts up again. I am a light sleeper and am now pregnant so cannot sleep through it.
He must be tired, as all morning after we have got up (i tend to give him until 6am to see if he will go back off) then we watch some Milkshake or Cbeebies and he just zones out watching it. I can put him back down around 10am for a nap and he can sleep anything up to 2 and a half hours. at the minute I have been trying to make the most of this and going back to sleep when he does. But I am increasingly worrying that this is just enabling in a way, and it doesn't help us get out and about to groups we normally would do. I feel really tired, helpless and concerned for when the new baby comes. I feel ill and emotional with this pregnancy anyway so that's not helping, but the sleep is really getting to me. I need to know if others are having the same problem and if its just a phase or if there is more i can do.
Thank you :-)