Early morning crying in 15 month old

[mooki]

My DD (15 months) is a generally happy sort but at the moment we get a lot of tears first thing in the morning.

When she wakes up in her room usually one of us gets some milk and the other carries her into our room, then all three of us get back into bed for milk drinking and cuddles (just for a few precious minutes before the pre-work/journey to childminder chaos begins

She's usually fine after the milk but before that - the time in between her waking up and getting to the milk, she cries a lot and can get quite upset. Is she just hungry after a long night's sleep do you think? Or does she not like waking up on her own?

Anyone else's DC greet the day with a sob?

my son laways cried when woke his way of getting me to go to him he still does it his 3.6 he knows if he cries i'll go in

when he was a baby this was his way of communicating he wanted me as wasnt able to call for me

My Dd usually cried on waking when she had woken too early and was still tired.

exactly the same here mooki, same age too. it's awful isn't it? with our dd it's almost certainly hunger.

Aw thanks guys. Up until about 12.5 months she was still waking for a 5am breast feed but she dropped it all of her own accord. When she gets her milk she downs it so quickly that I can easily imagine her putting her tommee tippee cup on her head when she's finished, so I do think she's probably been hungry/thirsty.

But yes don'tbitemytoes it just makes me sad that we start off every day with upset.

On the very odd occasion we hear her wake up and say 'hello?' (pretty much her only intelligable word at the moment )in a sort of tentative way, so I'm hoping maybe when more words come, she'll start singing in the morning instead.

Izzybiz - if it's the weekend then she will some times doze a bit in bed with us after milk, but on a week day she usually wakes up around 7am, so there's just not enough time for more sleeping then.