Getting up early

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My 14 months old has decided to be awake at about 5.00am everyday for about 3 months now. I have put that on the summer coming, we have put some board in front the of windows on the top of the blackout curtains., try to have the windows open for the cold air, close to avoid the noise (birds), a fan .... I could go on but nothing seems to work. The problem is that he actually needs to sleep and would fall back asleep for 1~2 hours from about 6.30. That's the time when everyone is getting up to get ready to go to work/nursery etc...
Any idea on how to help him sleeping i the morning?? I am exhausted!

I had exactly the same thing and what broke the cycle fro my dd (14months too) was a late night out at a party of all things.
Hardly scientific but she came out with us and stayed up till 10pm (usual bed 7pm,went down for a sleep,up again at midnight for drive home,back to sleep at 1am and then slept till 8am.This just seemed to break the habit.
She had another period of doing this and we went away for a week,seemed like a change of scenery and slight variation to routine helped again-she went back to her 7am waking.
I do feel for you though-good luck.

I would not have tought about that but I can now remember DS1 going something similr with his afternoon nap (didn't want to sleep in the aft, went away and then started to have a nap) so that might be worth a try!
Thanks for the advice.

mines a much older child, nearly 7, but he's been waking at 5:30 every day since we went to my sister's 50th at the end of June and he was up until midnight. I'm thinking of trying another event and late night to see if I can reset his clock.

no solutions - just sympathy from me. ds (also 14mo) also waking between 5am and 6am - this morning 5:00 exactly. he's then wide awake until mid-morning - when we normally have activities planned of course - then it's a struggle to keep him awake til we get him home and i can put him down.

my 15mo ds does this some mornings, I treat the wakeup the same as I would do in the night - ie rink fo water(cos its so hot) change nappy and back in cot then leave room. I give it until 6am and then get him up (occasionally he goes back to sleep).

Then we try and have a quiet morning- so long walk in the pram or a DVD. If he's really cream crackered I give him a very short 'power nap' cuddling on the sofa at 9amish. I also bring his lunchtime nap forward so he goes down at 11.45 instead of 12.30. It is a struggle and I have to make sure he has a mid morning snack as he can be too tired for lunch.

He did use to wake most mornings at 5am, what worked for us was cutting back on dyatime sleep he is a 13 hr baby, ie only needs 13 hrs sleep in total. So If I want him to sleep 7pm - 6am then I have to make sure he has 2hrs max in naps during the day.
We also had to step up his activity levels, lots more runnign around, we now do active tumbling play after his tea between 5.30 and 6.15pm.

If he is getting tired a 6.30am would it be possible to take him back up at 6.15am and snuggle him down in his cot again for an hour?

I have had a lot of thought about it and the conclusion I arrived is :
1- If he is waking up at 5.00am, he is not really ready to start the day so treat it as a night time call (with more or less success...)
2- Can't have a nap in the morning even if the wakes up so early because he is at the nursery and will NOT sleep so it is becoming a catch 22 as I don't know whether he is waking up because hehas slept enough for the day or he is too tired 9has done that in the past)
3- He actually enjoy this time of the day because he has an hour with me or DH alone wo his older brother..... so we will try to have a special time for him in the evening wo DS1.
Hope this time it will work!!!!