I'm after any hints or tips to see if we can crack this

[xTwinkleMummyx]

Tomorrow is the start of our stay-vacation. The prospect of having The Beard at home for the next week has me wondering whether to take the opportunity to see if we can put an end to our early morning wake up call. Spud will wake up somewhere between 4.30am and 5.45am for a breastfeed this wouldn't be a problem if he went back to sleep but he doesn't. As you can imagine The Beard isn't too keen on the idea, especially when he realised it will probably be down to him and he'll be the one waking at some ridiculous hour but as I clearly pointed out I've been doing it for the last 18 months so suck it up.
So ladies I'm after any hints or tips to see if we can crack this. One think to bear in mind is that he shares a room with his twin brother Argh! TIA Twink x

from my own experience id say there isn't much you can do.

The only thing that I found made a difference with my two was if they had a feed in the middle of the night they would then sleep in longer in the morning.

But anything after 5 am in this house and that seems to be it for the day.

What do you normally do after the early morning BF? Is Spud awake but quiet and chilled out, or full of energy and ready to go? Does twin sleep through all of this? Could you try and put Spud to bed a bit later? Do you know what calling your partner a beard means?!

I usually put him back down in his cot. He may settle for 5 mins but he'll start chatting and banging the sides of the cot. If I leave him he will wake his brother so I have to bring him in with us. On the rare occasion he may settle back to sleep on The Beard but never on me. Normally he just runs a muck in our bedroom.
I'm hoping by sending The Beard in he will be able to settle him back to sleep as it's always me who goes to him. I'm not sure whether we should offer him a drink for a cup.
I do now! I wish you hadn't told me!!!!

We have the same here, minus the twin issue.

DH (who is also The Beard - and I'm The Boob - good, eh?) takes DS into the lounge on some early-morning wake-ups, lies on the floor and tries to doze while DS climbs all over him. Occasionally, just occasionally he'll chill right out enough so DH gets some more kip.

The other thing I sometimes try is just keep him on the boob. This only works if he's in bed with us, obv. If he finishes, just don't let go. Keep him on there until he goes back to sleep. Can take a while, with a fair amount of thrashing around and crawling off, but if I have the patience he'll usually eventually drift back off when he realises we're not getting up, then we all have a little lie in til a blissful 7.30 or even 8am.

Night 1 - Spud woke at 5.30am - sent in The Beard so not bf. Didn't go back to sleep and woke Sprout. Both given cup of cows milk which they both downed and then played happily in cots for 30 mins.

Night 2 - Spud woke at 4.00am - The Beard unconscious. I went in tried to settle Spud gave up bf and then put him in cot. He went to sleep. Sprout woke at 5.30am wide awake. Spud woke at 6.20am.

and so it continues!